Take a Smoke Break-- a Jail Break too, While You're At It.

On the surface, this story seems pretty innocuous. Underneath it, there is a funny collision of BC Anti-Smoking laws, criminals and police behaving stupidly.
The prisoner was wanted a smoke. No smoking in BC Buildings means that locked up prisoners cannot smoke indoors. So, they took the prisoner outside... and he ran away.
So the lesson: if you want to break out of jail in British Columbia: go for a smoke break.