New Zealand's Funniest Home Convicts

Michael Crichton suggested in The Great Train Robbery that our impression of criminals as dumb brutes is wrong, and that our impression is based solely on the criminals who get caught, who are obviously a less-intelligent segment of the criminal world than those who don't get caught. This video of an attempted escape by a pair of convicts in New Zealand illustrates this point very well. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not amused by their escape attempt, but we know that we would all be better off if we caught more of the intelligent criminals. We pledge to our supporters to do all in our power to increase the intelligence of our incarcerated criminals.