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Speaking as a roleplaying gamer, this real-life Brazilian prison break is remarkable.

The bald facts: “Twenty-eight inmates escaped from a Brazilian jail after three women in fantasy police costumes “seduced” prison wardens, it was reported today.”  My response to the email that I got this from?

 …Wow.  This is exactly how I would have done it in my Dungeons & Dragons campaign if I was trying to bust the rest of the party out of jail.  Get a squad to seduce the guards, spike their drinks, knock them out steal their pants, break out the player characters, let out everybody else at the same time (as a distraction), leave the costumes, and make sure that the other escapees don’t hurt the guards (because then the cops won’t take this personally).  And, oh yeah: get one of the prisoners drunk and holding a stolen gun, then send him in the opposite direction.  Preferably one of the Bad Inmates.

Seriously, this shouldn’t have worked in real life. I am legitimately impressed that it did. …I mean, obviously, one should not applaud lawbreaking of this nature. But speaking from a technical viewpoint this caper will become part of the real-life lore of the gaming community, just you wait…

Well, that’s one way to stay on a strict shooting schedule.

Via @jaketapper, the story that you always knew that you’d read some day.

SAO PAULO, Brazil – In one murder after another, the “Canal Livre” crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.

Do I really need to keep going?

Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show’s host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil’s Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking.

The ironic bit is, of course, that you could throw a script around this concept and sell it to any number of crime drama television shows in a heartbeat*.  Hell, take away the murders and the drugs and you’ve got a Scooby-Doo episode.

Well, maybe just take away the murders.

Moe Lane

*Except Law & Order: Infinite Regress. Too much work adding the three plot twists and twp places where they complain about New York judges.

Apparently, the USA is ahead in its soccer game with Brazil. [UPDATED]

[UPDATE] Crisis averted. Whew!

By two points or dots, or whatever the terminology would be. This is unfortunate, not to mention a violation of the secret provisions of several international treaties: the sport of soccer exists of course for the sole purpose of giving the rest of the world something to feel superior to when it comes to the United States. Beating Brazil at the Worl…

What do you mean, the “Confederation Cup”? They have other competitions besides the World Cup? And we’re stuck with going to them? Who ordered that?

…anyway, obviously this is dangerously close to being a problem at the level of ‘diplomatic incident’ – so I apologize in advance if we win.

Moe Lane

I believe that the technical term for this would be “ghetto.”

Or, if you’re a Jerry Pournelle fan – and why aren’t you? – a “Welfare Island.” Via AoSHQ:

Brazil builds walls around Rio de Janeiro slums

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 28 (Reuters) – The government of Rio de Janeiro is building concrete walls to prevent sprawling slums from spreading farther into the picturesque hills of this world-famous tourist destination, an official said on Saturday.

This should end well.

Moe Lane

PS: Not that the President of Brazil’s planning to listen to a white guy with blue eyes. Didn’t you hear? I’m one of the people responsible for the current economic crisis.

Um… sorry about that?

Crossposted to RedState.