Locked Up Abroad, Season 6, Ep. 15 "Chilean Prison Break"

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Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available. He plans to take 500 hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which he'll bring back to the States
  • Runtime: 45 minutes
  • Original air date: July 30, 2012
  • Network: National Geographic
 
 
 
 

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Episode 15, "Chilean Prison Break"
Synopsis: Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available. He plans to take 500 hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which he'll bring back to the States
Original air date: July 30, 2012
Runtime: 45 minutes
Captions and Subtitles: English
ASIN: B00932AC0E
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,012 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Locked Up Abroad, Season 6
Synopsis: The critically-acclaimed Locked Up Abroad series returns for a new season, taking viewers inside firsthand accounts of kidnapping, imprisonment, and pure terror far from home. Combining revealing personal interviews with dramatic re-enactments, each episode focuses on one extraordinary situation, recounting the brutality, the bravery and, in some cases, the bad decisions that put the traveler in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Season year: 2012
Genre: Documentary
Network: National Geographic
ASIN: B007SSFEIU
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars What a bunch of self serving bunk April 29, 2012
Wow, this Eric Aude guy is like the Terminator, Bruce Willis and Jason Statham all rolled into one. He doesn't bend under torture, her takes on entire groups of Pakistani prisoners and wins every time, he single-handedly brings down the most corrupt guard in the prison, and prepares himself for his final confrontation with the prison guards like Rocky (seriously, he puts on a hoodie, a beanie, and stuffs tissue in his mouth--looks like six kinds of an idiot). Oh, and by the way, he is completely innocent and had no idea that he was smuggling drugs (apparently smuggling leather goods is okay); he even refuses to plead guilty for a shorter sentence.

Amazingly he says all of this with a straight face and somehow the cameramen manage to keep filming this load of garbage. Totally nauseating and not worth the 40 min; it made me never want to watch Locked Up Abroad ever again.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Very implausible Tale April 26, 2012
Generally a fan of this show but there was so many jaw dropping incidents that I just cannot believe that this story is true.

- The embassy in Pakistan sends a woman to a men's jail in Pakistan. I can buy into a lot of missteps and government incompetence but now way would the embassy, well schooled in cultural sensitivity would send a woman as their representative to liaison at an all male jail. And to deliver the news that he would be tortured for 3 days and that they initially wanted 10 days but she negotiated it down to three days? Would love to see someone from the embassy debunk much of this mans story.

- The Pakistani government negotiates with the US embassy on how many days it is going to torture a U.S. drug runner? No way it works like that. I full on know torture is a fact in a jail like that. I just don't believe that they negotiate about it.

- This guy gets tortured for 3 days, probably has eaten anything the whole time and when he goes to the main jail the next day, he's in Rambo shape to defeat all comers? Right. Torture where you're feet are beaten to a pulp, water boarded and beaten around the body leave a person drained, unable to sit up, feed themselves or anything else and he's fighting like he's a top MMA fighter?

-The only American in the jail and he beats up the most abusive guard in the jail and leaves a hero?

The whole episode raises so many red flags that this is just a partial listing. These kind of blatant inconsistencies make me really question the validity of the entire Locked up abroad series. To make something like this and label it true take a real dose of hubris and lack of respect for an audience.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A legend in his own mind? April 25, 2012
While Erik's experience in a Pakistani prison is compelling, his arrogance in the telling is off-putting. For instance, he related a situation where, while on a run, he tried, unsucessfully, to engage some young Pakistani women in a flirtation. An older man came out and attempted to put a stop to it and Erik 'took him down.' Absolutely no consideration for cultural norms and mores in a country in which he was a barely tolerated guest. Moreover, his so-called 'John Wayne' standard of handling things in the face of all prisoners against little ol' him ('going down with his thumbs up')just sounded like pure Hollywood posturing and made me giggle like I was watching cartoons. Still, there were moments, like when he called his mommy that I felt his despair. Finally, when he met his mother, as he arrived in the U.S., he looked healthy, albeit a little slim. There didn't appear to be bruises or scars that were intimated in the narrative. I know to expect some 'poetic license' but, never-the-less, I was a little surprised. I hope he truly meant what he said about appreciating his life now. That is a lesson we all have to learn one way or another.

Oh, and as far as having to plead guilty over there to get a lighter sentence... Sounds kinda of familiar over here! Just sayin'... 2 1/2 STARS
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood Fiction July 2, 2012
It's expected that any show doing a reenactment of a true event is going to exaggerate or fabric a little bit of the story to make it more dramatic and entertaining. However, this episode is something out of a Hollywood fiction script. The main character is total tool and supposedly says that he beat up handfuls of angry prisoners all by himself. As the story progressed it became obvious that Eric was wildly exaggerating the events at best, and most likely just flat out lying. Locked up abroad has lost all credibility and I know the producers can't be that stupid to believe this crap. Eric is a Hollywood actor trying to make it in the business. It is obvious that he lied about his story to make himself look like a real life Terminator, in a sad attempt to gain some publicity.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars What a load of... May 3, 2012
By JDV
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Oy vay,

I don't even know where to begin with this episode. I love the LUA series. It has great cinematography, music, etc. This episode is the only one that made me want to hurl. This guy (who plays himself in the episode btw.)comes across as a total tool. I don't believe anything about this story other than that he was locked up in Pakistan. Apparently, he is taking the "Frank Dux" approach to story telling (the guy they based blood sport on and was later determined to be a total fraud). Who knows? maybe he was somebody's woman in the jail or he was indeed the Alpha male. Hard to believe the Chuck Norris/Steven Segal/ Jean Claude Van Damme overtones throughout. I call BS. Really surprised this episode was made. At the LUA website, they ask you to submit a story that will be "Independently verified"--I'd really like to know how this was accomplished in this episode. As someone with experience in the fight business (I am a full time boxing coach), I can say without a doubt that the maxim of "12 mangy dogs can take down a lion"--is in general, the reality. No doubt that the prisoners would have shanked him instead of the Ninja-kung fu-Hollywood fight scene as was portrayed. What a load.

Uggh.....I really hope the rest of the season is better.
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