They had the escape planned right down to the second Louie would grab a hold of the wing and they would swoop right out to freedom. They forgot to add the factor of a wall.
This sounds like something Wile E. Coyote might try!
I think it was a job in Nevada - there was a mailbox with that name on the side, stuck in the middle of 50 miles of nowhere!
Charles Grodin in Midnight Run:
https://youtu.be/sBxPJe1nk-0?t=91