School of Hard Locks
The escape artists most notable jail escapes include over a dozen documented challenges of all steel cell blocks. He has escaped from cells that have held such infamous crime figures as Baby Face Nelson and Edward Gein of "Psyco" fame. The Gein jail escape presented him with the task of circumventing 6 sets of handcuffs and 6 prison doors to reach freedom. His subsequent appearances in Ripley's Believe It Or Not have been translated into 17 languages world wide.
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Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
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