Submarines, tunnels and t-shirt cannons may not seem that similar, but they've all helped criminals smuggle drugs and escape prison.
When Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera escaped from prison on Sunday by jumping down a well-equipped tunnel while he was supposed to be showering, he reminded us that human ingenuity knows few bounds when it comes to avoiding law enforcement.
We've compiled some of the globe's most famous smuggling attempts and prison breaks below.
Mexico's most infamous drug lord disappears in the shower
Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin also known as El Chapo, escaped Sunday through a mile-long tunnel from his cell in what is considered Mexico's most secure prison. The tunnel was more than two feet wide and five feet tall, and was equipped with a motorcycle on rails. Guzmán escaped from prison once before, in 2001.
A Frenchman escapes three times via helicopter
Pascal Payet, a convicted murderer, has escaped prison three times by hopping inside a helicopter. During his last attempt, in 2007, accomplices hijacked a helicopter from the Cannes airport, busted him out and flew to Toulon, on the coast of France. Payet was recaptured, so maybe don't ever allow him near a helicopter.
Enlisting well-armed friends
At least six heavily-armed men in a van and a pickup truck drove to a prison in Trikala, Greece, in March, 2013, and opened fire, helping 11 Albanian inmates escape. The attackers used grenades and guns on the guards, two of whom were injured.
The Taliban's mass prison exodus
Around 500 Taliban prisoners in Kandahar, Afghanistan, vanished through a tunnel equipped with electricity in April, 2011. The escape plan was reportedly so well-guarded that not even all those who escaped knew about it.
If tunnels aren't your thing, try ceiling pipes
Eight inmates at a jail in New Mexico climbed up the pipes behind the wall of a prison shower in August, 2008, and escaped by using handmade tools to cut a hole in the roof. Two of the inmates were rounded up in a day, while one managed to avoid capture until October 2012.
The Irish Republican Army takes over a prison
A squad of 38 Irish Republican Army members orchestrated the largest prison escape in Irish history on Sept. 28, 1983 at a prison known as The Maze when they managed to arm themselves and take control of a van meant to deliver food to prisoners. They got the van driver to take them to the prison's main gate, where they overwhelmed nearby guards.
T-shirt cannons and catapults
Smugglers may not be the right term to describe the outlaws who have used t-shirt cannons and wooden catapults to launch bags of marijuana over the fence that runs along America's border with Mexico. They might need a new term; it seems to happen often enough. There was this time in Naco, Arizona; this one in San Luis, Arizona; and this time along the border in California.
Smuggling with submarines
Drug-runners of a Colombian gang known as the Morfi are known to smuggle cocaine off the country's Pacific coast via small submarines. One submarine confiscated by government officials had room for a four-person team along with eight tons of cocaine. The semi-submersible subs are reportedly hard to track with radar, because they're hardly visible above water.
Let Jesus smuggle the cocaine for you
To smuggle drugs from Mexico to the U.S., one Mexican man turned to Jesus. He paid a woman $80 to lug a 6.6-pound Jesus statue made of plaster and cocaine into Laredo, Texas, back in May, 2008, but drug dogs sniffed her out.
Using religious idols to transport drugs, apparently, isn't a much better method than submarines and t-shirt cannons.