Sleeping on the job can have its hazards especially if you're employed to escort a prisoner and he manages to escape.
Two contractors from the company that runs Australia's immigration security, Serco, are alleged to have been asleep when a convicted criminal escaped during a stopover at Bangkok airport.
25-year-old Carlo Konstantin Kohl was being escorted back to his native Germany at the time.
Thai authorities say Kohl was allowed to walk around a transit lounge and escaped by cutting the power supply to a fire exit door while his Australian guards were asleep.
Australia's Immigration Department denies the guards were asleep, but has not revealed how he escaped.
Kohl committed various offences while he was in Australia including stealing almost 100 thousand dollars worth of opals from the Opal Cave in Coober Pedy in outback South Australia.
The owner of the Opal Cave, Lorraine Sternberg told Greg Dyett, Kohl - who is still on the run - is a clever criminal.
