Guards Thought He Was Taking a Shower. He Had Other Plans

 It may not have been the sophisticated escapes of the movies, but it worked just the same. 

Georgia inmate Christopher Carroll is on the run after busting through a shower wall with a metal rod, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

Guards thought Carroll was taking a shower in the Lamar County Jail shortly after midnight, but authorities say he instead used the rod he took from a table to make a hole big enough to shimmy through, per WSB-TV and 11Alive. He then vacated the jail itself by squeezing through an access door in a storage area before escaping the premises through a hole in the fence.

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Photo: Lamar County Sheriff's Office