The Context Free Press

This news story at CNN reads like output from my prison break story generator (be patient clicking that link):

ROGERSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- The party's over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail's doors were accidentally left unlocked.

The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail.

The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said.

Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the booze ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store.

Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all.

"I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape," Rimer said, "but they were wrong."

The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits to go around.

I'm inspired to build on my earlier efforts and develop a full-blown fictive news story generator. I'll use the same home-brew, probabilistically-firing, US-census-data-aware context-free grammars that I was messing with before. But this time, I'll write them to a file in the Movable Type export format, and then import them to this blog I just created.

I've got a perfect name for this news service:

To get things started I seeded the blog with two prison break stories generated by my old engine.