Random Places That Are Surprisingly Easy to Sneak Into (16 items)

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  (#13) Prisons, ft. Snoopy and a Cat

  For a place designed to keep people in and modeled on the concept of a medieval fort, you'd think prisons would be pretty hard to break into. And certainly, most American supermax prisons are. Hey, with the largest prison population on Earth, we've got practice. England, though, seems to have a bit of a problem in this department.

  In one case, a man broke into a prison wearing a Snoopy costume, intending to snatch a prisoner and dance his way back out. Another Englishman broke into a prison to steal $13,000 in cigarettes from inmates. In Brazil, guards noticed a suspicious looking cat wandering around the grounds. Upon closer inspection, they realized the cat had been strapped with cell phones, files, knives, and other implements of malfeasance.
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  (#6) 10 Downing Street (the Prime Minister's House)

  Say what you will about the Brits, but they do put a lot of faith in their people. So much so that in 2008, a burglar convicted of theft 78 times simply walked into the PM's house right through the front door. He arrived with his Lithuanian girlfriend, who quickly flashed her Lithuanian ID card to the guards. Assuming the couple to be poorly dressed foreign dignitaries, the guards let them in. The two walked from office to office, shoving stuff in their pockets. As you do. They were finally caught, but the couple isn't in prison, and the guards still have their jobs. So... cool?
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  (#11) Zoos

  Zoos and animal preserves are surprisingly easy to break into, and it happens on a regular basis. Large areas, scant staff at night, and a lack of funding for security measures are contributing factors. So is poaching in Africa. But in one case in Boise, Idaho, two people broke into a zoo seemingly for the explicit purpose of killing a monkey.

  The two black-clad men escaped, and zoo staff found a dead patas monkey the next day. It had been killed by some kind of blunt-force trauma to the head. The exact motive for the break-in remains unknown; it's possible the men had something else planned, ran into the monkey by accident, and fled after killing it.
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  (#3) Red Square (During the Cold War)

  In 1987, a daring young lad from West Germany had a brilliantly suicidal idea: to end the Cold War by flying his tiny Cessna airplane into Russian airspace, landing right in the middle of Red Square and giving the Russians and NATO something to talk about. And he did it.

  Despite flying right through the Iron Curtain, supposedly some of the most heavily defended airspace in the world, and fully expecting to be shot down by a squadron of MiGs, 19-year-old Mathias Rust piloted his small plane right to the Kremlin's front door and landed in Red Square like he owned it. People were fired. And by "fired," we mean "shot." Mathias did succeed in a way, too; at the very least, his infiltration proved that Russia was nowhere near the dominant military power it still played at being, and Gorbachev "tore down that wall" a short time later.  
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  (#1) The United States

  America is a big country and big places aren't usually that difficult to sneak into. There are a wealth of options for sneaking into the US, whether it be sneaking across one of our borders with Canada or Mexico or just hopping on a plane and never returning to your home country. Determination goes a long way.
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  (#14) Celebrities' Cell Phones

  Wikipedia calls it the "iCloud leaks of celebrity photos." But if you don't know this event better as "The Fappening," you've never been on the Internet. In 2014, someone discovered a security loophole in Apple's iCloud storage network that would allow them to make unlimited guesses at passwords. Using brute-force password guessing software, hackers from 4chan quickly went about invading the private photos of celebrities. Most of them, as you've no doubt heard, were nude. Dozens of photos leaked, notably those of Jennifer Lawrence, Kat Dennings, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and Kaley Cuoco.

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