Suspects Tricks Cop To Escape From Cell

This was the cunning moment a prisoner outwitted a policeman and escaped - by complaining that there was a snake in his cell.

Play-acting prisoner Anan Komolwanit, 23, was arrested and held in custody in Ayutthaya, Thailand, on Sunday night after allegedly being found with dozens of methamphetamine pills.

The next evening the suspect began screaming and called for help, shouting to the on-duty officer Commander Ratchada Supawong, that a deadly cobra had slithered through the bars. The hapless cop made three visits to the cell without seeing the mystery serpent.

He even had a stick with him ready to hit the snake.