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== [[Real Life]] ==
* When large groups of citizens were protesting the electoral fraud in the 2000 elections in Serbia, clever protesters who were jailed used this to spread their message on a personal level to the security forces. As a result, they were more lenient in future incidents than [[Big Bad]] Milosevic wanted them to be, and this eventually led to his overthrow.
* A computer programmer named [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] (writer of ''[[Three Worlds Collide]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality (Fanfic)|Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]'', among other things) did it in the form of the [http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/ AI-Box Experiments].
* [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] managed to talk his way out of [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2085527/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Sherlock-star-talked-way-kidnap-attempt-South-Africa.html a kidnapping] while in South Africa.