The tweeting of Martin Degrell (who runs the awesome Best Show Gems podcast) alerted me to the following insane story over at BBC News. Super-villains hoping to flee back their underground headquarters, take note: Here’s an evil genius who knows how to get things done!

A convicted sex offender and cult leader has escaped by helicopter from a prison on the French Indian Ocean island
of Reunion, officials say.

Juliano Verbard, 27, serving a 15-year term, and two followers, were pulled on to the helicopter by three accomplices.

The three had pretended to be tourists when they boarded the
helicopter, but then forced the pilot to land in the prison grounds
before flying off again.

They then landed a few hundred metres away, and drove off in a waiting van.

…whereupon Mr. Verbard welcomed a fluffy white cat onto his lap, stroked it, and proclaimed, “Yes, my plan has come together perfectly!”

Local police have few leads, but suspect that Verbard may have fled to a remote part of the island, and its mysterious skull-shaped fortress carved into the side of an active volcano.