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You can’t make this stuff up.

Two women who were wanted by police after escaping a west Edmonton prison on Monday night were arrested at a local escape room.

“It sort of was funny to think that they weren’t going to escape from an escape room. Definitely not as challenging here as, I assume, escaping from jail would be,” said Rebecca Liaw, who owns SideQuests Adventures escape room in downtown Edmonton with her husband, Jonathan Liaw.

Rebecca said two women who claimed to be from out of town came into their business shortly before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to inquire about escape rooms. Jonathan said the women told him they had never experienced an escape room before and asked for a tour.

“That’s not out of the ordinary,” he explained. “We get a lot of walk-ins. People are curious, they’ve never done an escape room before.”

Not having seen the news of the escaped prisoners, Rebecca took the women around the corner and down the hall to view one of the rooms. Jonathan stayed at the front reception desk.

“They continued the stream of typical questions,” Rebecca said. “They were extremely cool about it. They kept up a regular conversation, asking completely typical questions that we do get on a daily basis. Nothing out of the ordinary.

“They weren’t in any way threatening,” she said.

While the women were on the tour, a police officer came down the stairs into the business and asked Jonathan if two women had come in without an appointment.

“I was like, ‘Yes, actually, they have,’” he said. “He just called for backup right away. He just said, ‘They’re here.’”

Escaping prison didn’t tickle their fancy enough….

This is ironic as shit, like, was this what the planned the entire time? Let’s bust the fuck out, and see if SideQuest Adventures updated their escape room. 

No word yet where they were headed next, we assume it was the local bowling alley for a 10-7 split then home for a binge watch of Prison Break. 

Dumb and Dumber, everyone.