Prisons are built to keep convicted inmates locked securely behind bars.
And despite the locked doors, barbed wire fences and sniper towers, we have had some
pretty crazy prison escapes.
How’s it going YouTube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and today we are going to be looking at some pretty
impressive and daring escapes that you never thought were possible.
So get ready because right now we have the top 10 prison escapes caught on camera.
Starting off this crazy list in at number 10 we have a very dangerous inmate who escaped
form an Arkansas jail.
Is this real life right now?
How did the deputy not catch him?
He was literally right behind him.
The escaped convict was Derrick Estell and he managed to escape jail by squeezing through
a little window and running towards a getaway car that was driven by his girlfriend.
Estell was originally serving time behind bars for aggravated robbery, breaking and
entering and burglary.
But I bet if he wasn’t a criminal, he could have had a shot at the Olympics for running
the 100m dash, because damn he is pretty quick.
Number 9 takes us over to the easiest prison escape ever.
What is something that all inmates wish for when they are breaking out of jail?
They probably want an unlocked cell door and a distraction, right?
Well that’s exactly what Torrie Smith got.
Let’s take a look at her daring escape
Torrie Smith was arrested for aggravated assault on her boyfriend and she was brought to a
New Orleans jail for processing but I guess she saw a crack in the security so she decided
to take it.
It was discovered that a prison guard accidentally left two doors open, well I think its safe
to say that this prison guard was definitely fired.
After her easy escape from the prison, she then scaled the fence but she was rearrested
just 24 hours after she managed to escape.
I hope they remembered to lock the doors this time.
Number 8 brings us to the dumbest prison guard ever.
A Romanian police officer was given the simple task of escorting two prisoners to the nearby
courthouse.
He was supposed to led them into a police van and bring them to their hearing when this
happened.
As the three of them are walking towards the van, this prisoner sees an escape opportunity
and decides to take it.
The prison guard apparently lost all of his police training and common sense because he
unlocked the fence and decided to chase after him.
So now, we have this second convict who has found himself in a great spot.
He does what any other inmate would do and decides to make a run for it.
This prison guard now has two escaped convicts and he can only chase down one of them because
they ran in opposite directions.
Now that’s what I call an awful day at work.
Crashing onto this list in at number 7 we have a bulldozer that hits a prison.
This literally sounds like a scene from a movie, but I promise you guys, this actually
happened.
Let’s take a look.
12 prisoners managed to escape from a maximum-security prison in Denmark.
These prisoners were definitely not the kind that you want roaming your neighborhood streets.
They were robbers, drug dealers and murderers.
Before the escape happened, a former inmate was in contact with people inside of the prison
with a cellphone that he threw over the wall.
He then stole a bulldozer and smashed through the walls and released some of the prisoners.
I wonder if he had another get away car because a bulldozer isn’t the fastest thing out
there.
Up next in at number 6 we have a very violent prison escape.
Three prisoners escaped from a detention centre in China after they attacked and killed a
prison guard.
It’s no surprise that all three of these men were in prison for very violent crimes
including murder.
So, here’s how the escape went down.
One of the inmates asked the prison guard if he could make a phone call, once they were
alone in the room, he began to strangle the guard to death.
The other two inmates then ran into the room and grabbed the keys.
They all changed into prison guard uniforms and were able to walk out of the prison one
by one without being detected.
Police offered a $20,000 reward for any information that would help them recapture these inmates.
They were recaptured ten days after the escape and two of them were handed death sentences
while the other one was given a life sentence for his involvement with the escape.
The man who impersonated another prisoner who was set to be released climbs onto this
list in at number 5.
Rocky Marquez has managed to escape not once, but twice out of the prison system in two
separate states.
Police officials just can’t seem to keep him locked up behind bars.
But my favourite escape that he did was when he impersonated an inmate who was being released.
So basically, he just walked out of the prison.
He didn’t even need to run or scale any fences.
What makes things even worse, the prison guards didn’t even know that he was missing from
the jail until five days later.
So either, he is smarter than the average criminal or these prison guards are idiots.
We have another deadly prison escape and this comes in at number 4.
After the inmate stabbed the officer,he was able to unlock his shackles with a key and
he raced to grab the gun that was in the van.
After the inmate were in the clear, the killer manage to escape Eventually, after the escape,
he crashed his car into a retaining wall and the officers were able to apprehend him.
Now he is sentenced to prison without ever having the possibility of parole.
And now in at number 3 we have a prisoner who attempted to escape through a toilet?
I know this doesn’t sound like the most glamourous way to escape
but I guess prison makes you pretty desperate.
This must be the most optimistic prisoner on the planet because I don’t see how he
ever thought that he would be able to escape through this gross communal toilet.
After spending some time head deep in some pretty disgusting waste, he realizes that
he can’t squeeze his way through this shit hole (beep out swearing) and the man is pulled
back up by his cell mates.
I have so many questions about this prison.
What kind of disgusting prison has a corner for a toilet?
And secondly, why do these inmates have cellphones?
Couldn’t they call someone from the outside to help them escape?
My eyes are scarred so let’s move on.
El Chapo digs himself into our number 2 spot.
Joaquin Guzman is one of the most notorious drug lords of all time and he is also considered
to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.
He was arrested by the Mexican Authorities but he managed to escape prison after he bribed
some prison guards to open his cell door.
Six months after his escape, he was recaptured and because his escape humiliated police officials,
they had promised that he would never escape prison again.
Well, as it turns out…they were wrong.
As you guys saw, El Chapo was sitting in his cell when all of a sudden he walks over to
his shower area and disappeared.
Upon
further investigation, the police found a 2x2 foot hole underneath the shower that led
to an elaborate tunnel that was almost a mile long.
The tunnel had lighting, ventilation and a motorcycle.
He managed to remain free for about three years before he was recaptured.
Now, he lives in a very restricted cell with no windows and he can’t talk to any other
inmates or even his own family.
Number 1 brings us to the great Canadian helicopter escape.
This has to be the craziest prison escape that I have ever seen.
These two inmates escaped from a Quebec Prison back in 2013 and the whole escape was caught
on video.
They had two outside accomplices who managed to hijack a helicopter and force the pilot
to fly to the jail.
we can see the two inmates climbing up the rope in order to get to the roof where the
helicopter was waiting.
However, one of them had difficulty climbing the rope so they both just hung on as the
helicopter took off.
I know this sounds like an epic escape, but they struggled so hard.
I wonder why the police weren’t able to stop them because it took them so long to
actually leave the jail.
Well, as it turns out, just a few hours later they police were able to find these inmates
and arrest them.
And during a statement, the union president said that the guards were unable to interfere
with the helicopter escape because its only in the movies where you can shoot down a helicopter
with a gun.
Well there you guys have it