It's said that connections can open a lot of doors, but Caroline Biden learned last month that jail cell doors aren't among them.

Charismatic criminal Redoine Faid escaped from prison on Saturday, after a "brazen" breakout from a French penitentiary that including holding four guards at gunpoint, and then detonating a series of explosives that blasted through five doors and led him to freedom. His whereabouts are now unknown.

An eyewitness says a man who tried to break out of his own bedroom using a rope made of bed sheets is lucky to be alive, having survived a harrowing seven-story drop onto a pile of snow.