Whack-a-mole: 159 convicts escape Mexican prison on U.S. border

Just can't keep those moles down!

159 convicts escape Mexican prison on U.S. border: "At least 159 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison near the U.S. border Friday, deepening alarm in a region suffering extreme violence from rival drug gangs.

'There were 159 inmates who apparently left through the main entrance,' an employee with the city's penitentiary system told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The break-out from the facility in the northeastern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo — which lies just across the Rio Grande river from the city of Laredo in the U.S. state of Texas — was one of the biggest in Mexico in recent years." Dec. 17, 2010, Vancouver Sun/Reuters