Absolute Mad Lads - Mark Defriest

[@CountDankula]

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[@michelguevara151]

comment for the algomonster

[@michelguevara151]

oh, liked your comment for the algomonster of 'engagement'.

[@michelguevara151]

fuck off I'm not downloading it ;-D

[@benco41]

@@redacted5035 not that big is better than none existent

[@Dafoodmaster]

Dank, i think you have a dead pixel in the left bottom quadrant of your camera, sorry to say.

[@2boredfortv]

All it took was a spiteful woman and a heavy handed judge to completely ruin a mans life at such an early age.

[@lethn2929]

This happens more often than you'd think and people don't like to talk about it, family court being a classic example.

[@thinkinyblinko6666]

Hot take - False accusations should be punishable by immediate execution.

[@albino5995]

Most of these situations start with a spiteful woman and if they get what they want then wave goodbye to your life!

[@skylersampsell716]

Happens all the time, welcome to the child support system

[@p_campbell]

All it takes is a Wyman, OR a judge. If you get both your buggered. 🤠

[@TheVodkaHaze]

"If I was a rapist or a murderer, they'd let me out. But I'm the idiot who made them look like idiots."

[@dorn0531]

The system can overlook & excuse anything except the ugly truth

[@ElronHumpperdink]

@@dorn0531 that ego is a killer… it’s like in Fahrenheit 451 where they had invested a livestream to a chase and jumped on the wrong person as to not be outsmarted by their initial target and they had an image to uphold.

[@casthedemon]

They put this man in jail for 4 years, for inheriting his dad's tools. And then gave him over 100 more years for their injustices and idiocy. If you're looking for reasons to hate the government....here ya go. Also funny how his step mom faced zero punishment for her evil actions.

[@kopykat6843]

Exactly 💯💯. It's infuriating.

[@CianThoYT]

His mother didn't technically do anything wrong, hence not having a punishment. Doesn't make her any less evil though.

[@MH-tg4jt]

There's a law in Germany where escaping imprisonment isn't illegal.

[@ST1TCH916]

​@@CianThoYTyeah i notice people complaining about that, she didn't do a thing wrong by law standards if you really look at it. But obviously she's a fucked up woman who did the morally worst thing a mother could do

[@kevinkramer4310]

​@@MH-tg4jtbut in escaping you break several laws, including evading the justicial system, which leads to a longer sentence. One of many faux freedom laws of our country.

[@cardboard4929]

A man who did nothing wrong at first was turned into a repeat criminal by the system. Never heard this before.

[@loneronin6813]

Needless to say the justice system needs to improve.

[@tavirosu25]

@@loneronin6813 we will all be better off with no justice system tbh

[@cartoonhanks1708]

@@loneronin6813 If you have suggestions it's better than masturbating about the idea of change without doing anything

[@realityshotgun]

But he never would have invented the sony buttman if he didn't get out

[@marmarbinx3458]

@@tavirosu25 I disagree. There should be some sort of justice system. Otherwise it would be complete anarchy, with people being allowed to do literally anything that pops into their thick skulls. I do think the system in place needs a massive overhaul and more people with actual integrity that want to uphold reasonable laws for an honorable reason.

[@NegaBot]

Now imagine there exists an alternative timeline where this guys stepmother just let him have his fucking tools, and after few years he gets picked by an engineering company.

[@Anoonymous420]

No, imagine an alternate reality where instead of his dad passing, it was his step mother.

[@KamikazKid]

Reminds me of one of my uncles, he was the same way, randomly taking stuff apart & fixing it. Very smart, but no social skills he used to fix lawnmowers until at some point he got snapped up by Boeing and worked on a black project site for them in the 90s & early 2000s.

[@Jayyy667]

@@KamikazKid slingblade?

[@KamikazKid]

@@Jayyy667 I'm not sure what all he worked on, they had several projects going at the black site in Wichita all I know is it was secret stuff, and he was getting paid a lot not to talk about it.

[@davidklein1667]

@@KamikazKid I lived in Wichita, Ks. The place would hardly exist without Boeing and other aerospace firms! Along with hundreds of little airfields that facilitate the importation of hugh amounts of our country's cocaine! There are a ton of stories by locals that along with SAC and Mc Connells airforce base there are silos under farmers fields!!!! I can't say if true or urban legend!!

[@jasonjuneau]

"A member of staff went fucking ballistic and started fighting the washing machine - Count Dankula, 2022"

[@oddguys178]

"Maybe one of the elves insulted his mother"

[@Christopher-eq1rn]

Doesn't sound like he was ever a threat to anyone until the prison system ripped the humanity from him. Absolutely vile

[@darrenjones3181]

True look at Norway prisons they have luxury but crime goas down treated basically like humans and help 2 employ them after release rather then treated like animal and the revolving door of hatred and crime

[@wiegandway]

thats how they thrive here

[@LordVader1094]

Home of the free (:

[@tyj9175]

@@darrenjones3181 but then you have mass murders like andre breviek get two rooms, a bathroom, television and xbox. only 21 years for killing 77 people.

[@MrCarGuy]

@@tyj9175 Yes, capital punishment should be reserved for acts like that

[@ThatElephantSeal]

This story is fucked, its fucking infuriating that a man with such potential was wasted within such a worthless and cruel system

[@thriftjunkgaming1670]

OH SAY CAN YOU SEEE

[@Garbagejuicewaterfall]

It’s cuz he black.

[@mranonymous6006]

I'd rather die than live in a concrete cage.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@mranonymous6006 then you have no survival instinct

[@alexanderblackfel8747]

@@Garbagejuicewaterfall No? He's a white guy with blonde hair and blue eyes. Dankula even says that early in the video. You can look up pictures of him nowadays, and while he has gone entirely grey its pretty easy to extrapolate his prior appearance.

[@angeldevildx]

evil stepmother trope never fails

[@benisrood]

Never, it's a cardinal reality.

[@Cekseiro]

Full list of "crimes": 1. Stealing your own property. 2. Attempting to escape wrongful imprisonment. 3. Getting addicted to a drug in a prison he never should've been in to begin with.

[@chrisa7905]

4. Using his incredible natural/learned talents in the only way available in said prison. I’m sure even building a radio inside adds another disciplinary charge.

[@Cekseiro]

@@chrisa7905 Can't forget 5: Witnessing powerful people commit crimes.

[@blindi6326]

1. It wasn't legally his property yet 2. Not wrongful imprisonment, maybe unfair, but on top of which he commited numerous infractions 4. He tried to kill a guard among other things

[@Cekseiro]

@@blindi6326 1. Only by technicality. 2. Yes, wrongful. He was deemed unfit to have stood trial in the first place, even if retroactively. Ergo, a wrongful imprisonment. Further, it'd be disingenuous to consider an "infraction" committed in the attempt to escape a wrongful imprisonment as such. 3. ??? 4. Which he admitted to in a known-to-be-corrupt prison after having a confession literally tortured out of him.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@blindi6326 I love how KZbin censors anything that isn’t PG-clean, that way I can’t fully express how much contempt I have for you and for what you’ve said.

[@partizanforces3064]

His father should’ve focused a lot more on infiltration, evasion and camouflage then this man would have been unstoppable 😂

[@TheHarleyEvans]

You can lead a horse to water....

[@ItsRichyMo]

🤣

[@thekingbird0356]

@@TheHarleyEvans but you cant make him Solid Snake

[@barombolobombolo1501]

Backdoor infiltration more than the rest

[@notsure2466]

I mean, good point, but didn't his skill set allow him to essentially infiltrate and subvert the prison system AND the mental healthcare system? It's all the judges fault if you ask me... If the judge had been remotely reasonable, then ALOT of suffering could've been averted.

[@Panteni87]

This story just makes me angry... every warden, guard and stepmother involved involved even in a vague way should be send to life-time solitary.

[@clark2491]

When they are burning in hell they will wish they hadn't done any of this

[@Godoffi]

if mark was black or palestinian no one would care

[@FLABrowncoat]

This might be the saddest one I've heard here. This poor guy's life could have taken a completely different direction if he'd lived at a time with better understanding of his condition.

[@ZeranZeran]

he couldve worked for NASA

[@longwoolcoat2266]

Or maybe just if his stepmother did the most minimum effort to not be the an utterly awful human.

[@thehypest6118]

We could all be leading better lives if only people were better educated on mental health in general

[@tomjones2056]

@Justin Martin not being able to read or write is pretty much the definition of “stupid”.

[@uku4171]

@@tomjones2056 No, it isn't. It's a lack of education or specific mental conditions, like dyslexia.

[@consciouscode8150]

And let's get some perspective, this guy was in jail for getting things he legally owned before he was supposed to.

[@godmode8687]

Not was in jail. He still is. He got lifelong jail sentence, for getting his stuff 2 weeks early

[@pxlarxid]

I'm not endorsing a crime by any means but a madlad tribute to anyone that breaks him out

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@godmode8687 Damn, Freedom Land's "Justice" system is just fucked

[@poremechen]

also dont date single mothers and be aware the risks of merging families

[@thatdamncrow9197]

@@godmode8687 he got a life long sentence for all the crimes he committed escaping prison Dont act like he got that sentence for the tools

[@LibertyDino]

This story fits this world so much. The worst creeps become part of the big leagues while people who could do a lot of good get the shit beaten out of them.

[@TeeBar420]

The fact that they threw him out of a rehab center for being an addict just fucking floors me. Isn't that why he's there in the first place?

[@dorn0531]

Sounds like someone just wanted to throw him back in prison. The drugs were likely just an excuse

[@quynlanvuorensyrja5484]

War on drugs translates to war on addicts. With all the death and suffering that implies.

[@zakofrx]

He was sneaking drugs in to his treatment program that he was massively lucky to get with everything he did..

[@mikehimes7944]

Rehab has to be a sober environment, the other patients can't have someone actively sabotage their treatment.

[@dorn0531]

@@mikehimes7944 Fair point

[@hashbrownz1999]

The acid bit had me dying. I can't even imagine how terrifying itd be to unknowingly consume like 10 tabs

[@aerea4759]

Way to secure a permanent "employment" at the ward

[@tyj9175]

i knew a guy that was dealing. he was counting out hits and recounting. counting so much hits started to disappear and stick to his skin. about 70 hits. he said the police found him on top of a kiosk, naked and acting like a gargoyle.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

@@tyj9175 thank fuck they got to him before he did something even stupider lmao

[@RodrigoBorgia]

@@tyj9175 muaHaHa...that´s hillarious. Remember: always wear gloves, don´t rub your eyes, don´t lick your fingers, don´t "ah, there is some leftovers on the plate/mirror/table. Don´t waste it. Let´s just lick it"

[@paladinsmith7050]

😂😂😂😂

[@AreUmygrandson]

“He started fighting and screaming at the washing machine” As you do when you are on a heroic dose of

[@middlesiderrider]

I went to college with a guy named Joel who was an ex-con. He had prison tats (many of which were Aryan Brotherhood) and I wondered how they did tattoos in prison. When he described the process I was amazed. To make the tattoo gun they used a personal cassette player for the motor/batteries/etc. The needle was a sharpened guitar string. A shirt button connected the electric motor and guitar string which have it the eccentric motion and drove it through an empty ink pen body. For the tattoo ink the melted black chess pieces with a lighter and caught the smoke coming off them in a plastic bag. They then mixed the smoke with black pen ink. Give people enough free time and they can do many things, great and terrible. BTW Joel got caught cheating and threatened to kill one of our professors so they kicked him out. A few years later I moved to a new town and it turned out Joel lived there. He stole a Honda three wheeler from me.

[@tavirosu25]

You bring your own needle to the tattoo "artist" unless you want to get HIV/AIDS or some other disease...

[@marmarbinx3458]

@@tavirosu25 that is very true. It's surprising how many people don't care about the risk of infection, and will just chance it lol. Some people are fucking dumb.

[@ryand8024]

They'll also use regular ink from a pen. I have a couple on my back. The needles we got from the guards/co's. Some used the motor from a broken cd walkman and attached the needle. You should ask em about prison made cake...you have no idea what you're missing lol

[@TheGreenKnight500]

The ingenuity of some prisoners is insane. It makes me wonder how that could be harnessed for something more constructive. Sadly, they may be intelligent but a lot of them lack self control, which is what landed them there in the first place.

[@Powercorpse]

Looks like Joes was not in the can without reason. Sorry about your honda.

[@Rabidchu]

I hate Raid, but I love how each introduction Dank does just sounds increasingly demented with each read he does for them.

[@pauliewalnuts2527]

raids done more for creators than KZbin. raid gets respect from me.

[@Wicked061]

Without raid, we wouldnt see MANY of our beloved content creators doing basically anything. Granted, raid annoys the absolute hell out of me, but i cant deny the good things they do. Im also convinced that they are extremely self aware.

[@MurkyWaters677]

@@Wicked061 Not a fan of mobile games in general, but I do respect them for keeping creators afloat along with ridge, the VPNs, and the many subscription box companies.

[@hellishcyberdemon7112]

I just use sponserblock so it skips that part of the video... he gets his money from raid and i dont have to watch any stupid ad for some retarded freemium mobile game

[@parkyt13]

I normally skip advertising. But I watch every one of Danks lol. They're just funny as shit

[@CuteKiller313]

if you think about it, all the prisoners and guards who abused Mark throughout the years are only still breathing because he let them, something tells me a guy who can replicate a key just by looking at it, can make a gun out of a tube of toothpaste and is probably expecting to be incarcerated for life can kill anyone in the same building as him if he decided to

[@jcallen21]

Because of his skills he wasn't allowed to see keys , wasn't really allowed anything that could possibly be made into a key or a weapon. He made a linkable functioning Folger Adams keys out of some toothbrushes he managed to get a hold of. I never had any issues with him, when I worked there.

[@demidevil666]

Fuck man... This is the bleakest Mad Lad episode yet. I feel so sorry for Mark. Being robbed of basically your entire life over some benign bullshit just because your step mom is a shit person? God damn.

[@davidklein1667]

As my mom was fond of saying..For the Grace of God we go......so true!!! I've done things much worse than this poor SOB !!! There's no justice in this world...

[@benzoluvsyou]

i hope that lady got a nice dose of karma

[@jjcoola998]

Hoes ain’t shit

[@blackpillr9kr428]

Remember this: he was a man with Asperger and of course, he will be mistreated, but a sociopath or a psychopath is perfect in the eyes in this society.

[@blackpillr9kr428]

@@benzoluvsyou no because she's a woman.

[@themk4982]

Such a sad story. He’s an old man who only became a criminal once he was arrested and tortured, with almost no hope of escape from his torturers. He was under duress more than anyone else.

[@kingcosworth2643]

Governments destroy people who don't 'fit the mold'

[@hungmungo4015]

Welcome to the American legal system my friend

[@Dan-yk6sy]

@@hungmungo4015 Welcome to humanity

[@kareemawad8924]

His stepmother is the criminal and this story as well as the entire justice system. This man deserved a good future and a good life.

[@scrotiemcb5858]

Normal prisoner: makes shank out of plastic spoon Marky D: makes gun out of toothpaste tube

[@bluefalconssuck5881]

108 years of confinement and torture started by getting the tools his Dad left him... Yup, that's the Government for you.

[@Dhips.]

This was 70's too. The same people that lied the people into Nam. They were fine killing thousands in war, so it goes hand in hand with throwing a man in jail for no real crime.

[@petermgruhn]

Because, yeah, lies and war have stopped since then.

[@winstonsmith8482]

@@Dhips. They lied us into Iraq just 20 years ago.

[@Dhips.]

@@winstonsmith8482 Same as it ever was

[@frankfisher99]

@@winstonsmith8482 they lied you into a "pandemic" like, now.

[@aceghost1074]

Fuck man I feel the getting left the tools thing. My granddad (I lived with my grandparents growing up because my parents were over the road truck drivers) had me working with him from a young age in his workshop. Fixing all sorts of stuff with him. I loved those times. He passed a few years ago. I was the only person who had a serious interest in anything along those lines. He never had an official will but told me I could have his tools. It was known in the family. I get the tools. I was deployed when I heard he passed. I talked to my grandmother. She promised me they were mine. I come back to find his workshop completely stripped. I originally thought it was robbed and flew into a panic. My grandmother remarried and took the tools to her new husband. I offered to buy the tools for brand new price. (it would have been over 15 grand and I was ready to sell my only vehicle at the time.) They were old and very worn tools but I would have fuckin given everything for them, I have a son now, and had intended for the tools I have collected to this point and my grandfathers to go to him. Keep them in the family. She refused. She said that the only reason that my grandfather ever used them was because he loved us and that they were actually HER tools. Despite her never using them, and her hobbies including things like scrapbooking. I've never forgiven her for this. Yes legally they are hers. Yes I understand wanting to keep things from your late husband. But she knew how special they were to me. I'd have given her anything for those tools. And it was his wish id get them. I just don't know how you can do that to a person. The feelings aren't just for the tools it's the memories of someone you care for that is gone.

[@benisrood]

The whole "giving them to her new husband" undermines any sympathy for her perspective I would have.

[@lunsy9420]

I heard about this guy about 10 years ago. He got so screwed by the system. No telling what he could have done had he not been locked up for taking what rightfully belonged to him. FSP also called Raiford was bad. A friend of mines brother did 7 years there and said 2 or 3 people were stabbed daily.

[@godpigeon]

It might be "chicken and egg" situation, they were gathering the "worst of the worst" for a while because it had a bad reputation, the bat reputation was because they had the worst of the worst there.

[@jeffjr84]

Sounds like GSP honestly its called the white elephant. youll get stabbed trying to go take a piss

[@vane909090]

MacGyver had to had been based on this guy. I just know it.

[@vladbissonette1619]

Wow! Just...wow.

[@jeffjr84]

@@vladbissonette1619 yeah this guy is a bright spark too bad he didnt get a chance in the free world

[@DustyBlitzkid420]

Absolute Sad Lads, was hoping he got the help he needed

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

You expected the penal system, THE PRISON SYSTEM, in america to actually help someone? 🤣🤣🤣

[@tedcrilly46]

@@TheRealRusDaddy in Europe he would have been rehabilitated and probably eventually would have an engineering career. Probably would have generated millions in revenue.

[@jfoxvii]

Underrated comment. Sad lads.

[@broadclothjack]

The only help he needed was someone to arrest every judge, lawyer, cop, and therapist who partook in his prison time

[@Hibernial]

Land of the free, clearly indicated by its prison population housing the most inmates of any country in the world. Very free. It’s entirely not a often repeated slogan to skirt off the destruction political institutions cause. Not at all.

[@samueljozjasz6334]

Poor guy, he was screwed over by his evil stepmother and unfair laws He was such a briliant guy

[@grim6980]

He should be released and compensated for the torture he endured at the hands of the state.

[@WhompingWalrus]

Should buy him a state of the art workshop.

[@invaderHUNK]

@@WhompingWalrus and a lot of meth

[@WhompingWalrus]

@@invaderHUNK Gotta make up for lost time somehow.

[@violenceislife1987]

Yes

[@notninja97]

Should keep him locked up for the rest of his life.

[@sleepfacenightfall]

What a cruel and unusual punishment, honestly shocking what they did to this man for movie his own property to where he was dwelling.

[@pattabor5268]

cruel and usual

[@noblephoenix6151]

Hardened Killerin for life: "What are you in for?" Mark Defriest in for life: "Resisting"

[@breal1577]

106 years for taking your dads tools back. What a lovely system.

[@GrievousReborn]

Yes take away any personal responsibility he had for constantly misbehaving and trying to escape from prison which is why he had to stay in prison longer than he was originally sentenced for.

[@jaketzou]

@@GrievousReborn What personal responsibility? Did you watch the video? He's clearly incapable of being responsible for himself and should have never been in prison in the first place.

[@ValDominator]

we are slaves

[@KarazolaX]

@@GrievousReborn if you are imprisoned unjustly, you are never at fault for trying to fight against or escape that unjust imprisonment.

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@GrievousReborn He has no personal responsibility, what do you mean "misbehaving"? He isn't beholden to his captors. I hope you get wrongfully convicted some day, and enjoyed a couple decades locked away. See if you think you're "obligated" to be there by the end of it.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

"Mark constantly complained about this. After all, he was told to act like a woman." There needs to be a chef's kiss emoji, just for this remark.

[@jeffjr84]

Prison is rough like that.

[@Guitar-Dog]

😘👌 like that

[@spooksmcgee8790]

😘🤌

[@LaCosa973]

They were beatin the brakes off that washer machine🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shermswarthau5366]

This guy went through hell and was/is absolutely a genius MacGuyver type. There's a documentary out there that tells the interesting and horrific tale of MD.

[@shaggybear8716]

Yeah I think Count Dankula did that documentary.

[@rorz999]

@@shaggybear8716 nah Dank actually mentions the documentary in this video

[@J3diMindTrix]

Poor guy. Absolute travesty that he's locked up, and what a loss to society. It's a place he shouldn't be, not least for the fact that those tools were rightfully his and he didn't set out to steal anything, and the stepmother basically put him there herself and had she been a bit more honest with the cops it would have been obvious that he has mental conditions and most likely he wouldn't have gotten locked up in the first place. Now he's lost the rest of his life to prison after turning a 4-year sentence continuously into a longer and longer one by doing the one thing 'wardens of the state' don't like you to do: question their authority', as well as the things you'd expect anyone locked up in a hell on earth, especially someone who shouldn't even be there, to try and do, escape. Prime candidate for a pardon. Also, how the stepmother can even live with herself is beyond me. Evil witch.

[@doogannash1970]

this kind of thing makes me sick to my stomach. The guy was clearly beyond gifted. And this is a perfect of example of how our society punishes anyone who doesn't conform to its standards. And how many prison systems turn people from one time offenders into broken humans. If we had just given this guys a workshop with some resources and left him alone, he would probably have gone on to invent many great things.

[@rukus9585]

Couldn't agree more... Unreal.

[@jasontandy3357]

One reason of many why this once great nation deserves to burn

[@labonski_games]

@@jasontandy3357 Don't blame the nation for what is clearly the government's fault, the government is the one true enemy, they deserve to burn

[@Direblade11]

@@labonski_games get together with the guy and plan the revolution. Civil War will happen with or without one, under your political system.

[@somagai467]

The initial 4 year sentence was unjust, yes. But the proceeding years tacked on to that sentence are entirely the fault of the man perpetrating them. Nobody forced this guy to completely and utterly ruin his own life. He did that of his own volition.

[@Pebble_Collector]

"An entire week of not seeing the sun" Well shit, what sentence am I serving?

[@quillclock]

man i would give anything to be in that ward on the LSD coffee day. the idea of psychiatrists quickly losing their minds and getting on the same level as the patients is something you would see in a movie.

[@Glowingfed]

That nurse was probably a hit there

[@lagsmith]

the line is thinner than they think

[@thephantomraspberryblower2675]

One time, roughly twenty four years ago, I was on a ward in the Maudsley hospital. There was a gay cook on the ward who had a day pass. One time he came back with fairy cakes for the staff, because they were, " Wonderful". He'd added hash oil to the mix. Half the staff went home the rest bar two stoner staff were hilarious. The stoner staff were just happy.

[@MuxauJ7]

As we say in Russia, the first one to grab a coat is the doctor.

[@quillclock]

@@MuxauJ7 I really like that saying. I'm going to start using it

[@turdle837]

This story is a prime example why the oldschool way of just blindly punishing someone, without helping them, is completely idiotic.

[@qwerty49424]

Punishment should fit the crime but why do that when you can make money by sending people to prison.

[@Alex_Fahey]

More like a prime example of why long-term incarceration is a bad idea. Whether the fix is execution, banishment, or rehabilitation is up to the person you ask and the crime involved.

[@BulkernatorKerb]

The prisons are run by private companies who lobby politicians/fund the campaigns of politicians who have "tough on crime" policies in order to keep the prisons full and to keep each prisoner for as long as possible. Blindly punishing inmates only serves to benefit them, so nothing will change.

[@dumbidiot973]

@@BulkernatorKerb There are 1.6 million people in prison in the USA and 92% of them are being held in public prisons, if you want to criticize the criminal justice system at least do a simple Google search.

[@darrenjones3181]

I no in UK cost about 44k a year 2 house a prisoner I get not even half that a year. I no its split costs like meds food prison officers electricity etc but low risk offenders or low end offenders leave prison with not mutch cash and are homeless or in halfway house probation with minimum care only 2 keep track of there licence probation and nowt else they tell you 2 get a job and home. life is not that ez some will make it but lot will fail and reofend. a prisoner after leaving prison could get help with housing education help is needed and I guarantee it won't cost 44k per prisoner per year 2 do this. the system is putrid no idea how mutch in America it costs 2 house prisoners you guys have diff states might be diff each state. I no some will milk the system but if they mess up then its on them but a lot will try 2 better themselves with opertunity and guidance it's better 2 do something with the system rather then revolving doors

[@gottagift]

A man who knows right from wrong. And who fought against all that was wrong.

[@roybatty9935]

This dude is just a couple hours away from me. What a legend. Ima go put some money on his books

[@AmbidextrousYo]

Hell yeah dude

[@chrisa7905]

@MusicMaster1987 fr? Damn I wonder if he’s even allowed much commissary items. If so might do the same.

[@rukus9585]

@MusicMaster1987 yes, you can do it online for most.

[@rukus9585]

@@chrisa7905of course, not all your money will make it to the prisoner, because, well, prisons love avenues of revenue.

[@tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429]

You can do it online. Please post the link or I'll do it tomorrow. I've put 100 bucks on his books before and I'll fuckin do it again!

[@50cent3656]

The System made him like this, he should have never been in prison in the first place.

[@butthz8850]

All thanks to his step mom.

[@Anoonymous420]

@@butthz8850 Hopefully that gremlin is rotting in hell right now.

[@jasonselfridge11]

For anyone watching as I thought it was me. The dead pixel on screen is from his camera. Iv just binge watched this Chanel and thought oooo iv got a dead cell. It’s not you it’s the video lol. That being said loving the videos and the content. And house Stuart from coast to coast

[@twiztidfreekshow199]

It feels like this will be Dank's "year of content", and I couldn't be more excited! Love your face! Thank you for keeping me from becoming a mad lad over the last few years

[@oligultonn]

The Chinese famously predicted the "Year of Autism" and it has come. This year will have many communist revolutions and I will be get a state appointed big titty goth gf.

[@hopeshefloats8489]

Really tho?? I feel like his year of content started year or so ago and just kept rolling on through 21,22 hahaha hes's the dude !! Lol

[@dime4026]

Year of the dropping views and stale content

[@twiztidfreekshow199]

@@hopeshefloats8489 I mostly mean, now that he has a proper studio and all. Plus the last couple years and everything currently happening will provide no shortage of stupidity to make videos on. I ignore most mainstream media. I find it far more tolerable to get the state of the world with some of that Dank humor... Makes it less depressing.

[@marmarbinx3458]

@@twiztidfreekshow199 not sure why you added the comment about his face lol.

[@Holladawg]

Justice for Mark Defriest, he was innocent!

[@jeffjr84]

He should be freed

[@syntheticsandwich190]

@@jeffjr84 Mark Defreest

[@chrisleach4245]

I was about 6 and my sister was 10 and had already been learning survival training from our father. He taught us hand to hand combat land navigation and map reading including topographic maps. He would take us camping a lot and we would trap our food and build fire from just two pieces of wood. In a way it made us much more responsible and respectful to the land and people that we interacted with and still do

[@warrenlemay8134]

To me, the way this man was treated by the system is evidence of how rotten to the core the criminal justice system in the United States was, and still really is.

[@fatsurprise7892]

Cops are evil, prison guards are failed cops. Do the math.

[@skralle8037]

@Brandolf fuck being a cop, shitty occupation that gives people the ability to abuse government authority and thug on people

[@danielgiovanniello7217]

@@fatsurprise7892 Spoken like someone who knows nothing of nuance

[@moralkombat66]

@Brandolf good cops don't make it far. Whistleblowers get shafted.

[@animaanalysis]

@Brandolf cops aren’t evil, the system is evil, and good cops follow orders. It’s a sad but harsh reality. Many good people become cops, but they’re forced to do shitty things out of necessity of listen to their superiors.

[@rorz999]

Damn what a badass. A shame his talents were wasted. Who knows what he could have done with his life if he never went to prison

[@jakeq3530]

His step mom deserved prison herself

[@CidVeldoril]

@@jakeq3530 His step mom deserved the chair.

[@Grognarthebarb]

If he was never TAKEN to prison

[@STOPSYPHER]

“man steals his own tools from mom, spends life in prison and psych hospitals” - better title

[@triplecastsleep1924]

I think the part that really made me lose my temper was when they revoked his parole over the traces of methamphetamine in his urine. The man was insane after being locked in a box without light for almost three decades, and two of his vital organs were failing, and you STILL won't cut him any break.

[@thewildcardperson]

they are evil

[@settame1]

I wonder how long it lasts in your system. I know pot can turn up even when you’ve been clean for decades if you lose weight because it’s stored in your fat. If his kidneys weren’t working well it may have been left over from when he was using in prison.

[@msbae]

Terry A. Davis needs a mad lad episode. He's already become a legendary internet meme by this point. He needs to be permanently enshrined in the mad lads hall of fame.

[@pavetheshave]

I don't know if Dank will do it though, considering Terry's life has been pretty well documented in the Down the Rabbit Hole video

[@Guitar-Dog]

Terry Davis would be cool, I only know the memes

[@dabtican4953]

Frank Abagnale would be good imo, i read his book and it's so much better than the movie because there's much more stuff in it and by the end you'll just be amazed with how often he gets out of sticky situations. And that's quite a thing for me to say cause I really like the movie as well

[@johnmcafeedidntkillhimself]

YOU CAN SEE THEM WHILE YOUR DRIVING

[@dabtican4953]

@@johnmcafeedidntkillhimself YOU JUST RUN EM OVER

[@butterflystampede1945]

I literally want to cry from anger. It's not even that long ago. The world is complete hell on earth.

[@Woolong742]

This entire story fills me with unbridled rage and everyone involved in ruining this man's life should be forced to suffer. Anyway Dankula should do a madlads on Francis E. Dec, Esquire.

[@ajwaters465]

That man was beaten bloody last time I heard

[@Woolong742]

@@ajwaters465 He was dragged in chains after that, according to legend.

[@nothingforyouhere418]

You sound like my kinda person

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

I can’t say what I’d like the woman who got mark in trouble to begin to suffer.

[@fartz3808]

His story resembles that of a RL Count of Monte Cristo

[@shaness112233]

Sometimes, while watching Mad Lads, I think to myself, "What would society be like if all these people were treated well enough to want to help it?" This is one of those times.

[@bozimmerman]

My new fav mad lad. An amazing story, well told.

[@scrums4748]

I don’t think a madlad episode has ever made me so depressed

[@JJ-do3ry]

This is probably one of my favorite mad lads. An exceptional person indeed, very sad to hear what he's been through. Mad respect to the guy

[@gabrielstanford5370]

You make these stories even more interesting than anyone else could. Thank you for what you do!

[@mikejohn6566]

As a man with Aspergers I can relate to Mark. He's done nothing wrong. He should be free.

[@SirDankleberry]

I agree, I also have aspergers.

[@blackpillr9kr428]

Well, guess what, buddy boyo he will be seen as a creepy person no matter what, and it's freaking sad how you can be a creepy man in a dress, but if you have Aspergers you will be called a creep.

[@RasEli03]

Same here. With todaya views he could easily be pardoned for the way the system worked back in the 70's

[@kingcosworth2643]

Me too, and been railroaded by the government because I'm different. They are slowly taking everything I care about away....

[@thewildcardperson]

call his state representative and make it known

[@pauliewalnuts2527]

wardens who fail to protect prisoners should be held in contempt

[@Nick_Rabbit]

In regards to the very first minute of the video, long story shortened as much as I can. I ended up serving a 6 month sentence in Sudbury Ontario, which was my first ever criminal charge (and to be honest I got completely dumptrucked by my lawyer because I was new to the system and had no idea how shit worked) When the culture shock of being a raver kid from Toronto, with zero criminal contacts wore off, and I was able to flex my creative muscles (about a month or so in) I was given the handle of "MacGyver". This was after I made a "Remote control" for the TV that the first 3 cells could access after lockup (at 9pm, we were all thrown into cells but there was only one TV per range right at the end by cell 1, and the range was pretty much a straight line of cells 1-12 I think on one side, and the common area or "range" on the other) To accomplish this, I used a comb, some tape from laundry bundles, a toothbrush and a bunch of string harvested from a sock.. It was obviously not a digital remote (duh) and was done by knocking the ch+ button on the front of the TV in, putting the tooth brush in to rest on the switch on the bottom, which was attached to the string which went in an a J shape, using the comb to re-route it, making a very primitive lever.. then ran the string along the tops of the bars for the first 3 cells.. you could only use channel up, but with like 30 channels it did not take long to loop around to whatever channel you wanted :P I was soon after invited to move into cell 3 which was a huge ego boost, where I kitted the cell out with privacy curtains around the beds (as much as we could get away with) My sentence ended up being a lot more chill than I thought it would be :D

[@joshuathomas5626]

Dang. I medically treated this guy for awhile in the 2010s. He was in max management single bunk cell at that time. He was always joking I remember and had a crazy laugh. True story, he would always guess his blood glucose level and be off by only a few numbers each time, I've never seen that before or since. I worked at FSP as an LPN night shift from 2012 to about 2015. It was pretty nuts. It wasn’t anything compared to before mental health care classification was instituted in corrections though from what I was told.

[@gamerman1749]

You being fr?

[@kajixdn]

@@gamerman1749 doubt it, never trust random accounts on youtube that tell inconsequential and unverifiable stories about some alleged connection with someone

[@anelpasic5232]

@@kajixdn I don't trust you.

[@kajixdn]

@@anelpasic5232 no shit

[@akkico]

@@anelpasic5232 💀

[@petermgruhn]

Can't decide which enrages me more : - the state of prisons. You cage somebody and you are responsible for their safety, yet 'completely unsafe' seems to be the rule. - the glee with which so many "normal" people look on the state of prisons.

[@craigdouglas4099]

Those who take such disgusting and short sighted pleasure in the suffering of "criminals"... really should get an eye opening taste of being on the receiving end

[@thewildcardperson]

@@craigdouglas4099 yep there weak people who love seeing people suffer all of the just9ce system should be executed

[@NathanCassidy721]

Replace “normal” with ignorant. And if they don’t change their mind when you educate them, replace “ignorant” with “amoral psycho”

[@xXSCDTXx]

This shit is straight up Draconian.

[@dragonfirestronk]

3 mad lads in a week? What did we do to deserve this gift?

[@ryanmalin]

Clicked the link baby!!

[@flameguy3416]

Click the link

[@Sarnarath]

This guy got life in prison over some tools he inherited and was never even violent..

[@somagai467]

No, he got 4 years for taking tools he inherited. The rest of the sentencing was his own fault and should rightly be admonished for it.

[@thepoliticalgunnut8018]

@@somagai467 Found the Fed simp.

[@Lazypackmule]

@@somagai467 Calm down, authoritarian

[@AvaiLeon]

​@@somagai467 Being sent to prison over the tools that were already his in the first place is total bullshit. Therefore by extension the rest of the sentence is also total bullshit. It's not morally wrong to go against the morally wrong actions being done against you. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[@somagai467]

@@AvaiLeon if he were smart, he wouldve done his time, found a competent lawyer and try suing for wrongful prosecution/imprisonment. But no. He decided his time would be better spent making contraband, trying to escape, and endangering a bunch of people in the things that he did. He made dumb decisions that cost him dearly. The people defending his actions are also stupid.

[@evanthomass]

This is one of the saddest stories that that count has told. The court system needs to take the index offence into account. The punishment is so vast that the crime would get lost inside.

[@spookie9989]

Been enjoying the constant bombardment of mad lads

[@Lakefront_Khan]

I'm liking these more down-to-earth mad lads. I like the big famous guys and gals but we know most of them.

[@OfWodensFolk]

The description of Mark spiking the coffee and my own "Experiences" of "Tabs"....just brought back some hilarious incidents of my youth off my face 😂

[@mikathomo391]

I think this is the first episode where I've actually started to cry. This guys got fucked over big time... I'm so... sad... his step mom is hopefully paying in hell rn for that.

[@natelax1367]

How did the first judge not look at the circumstances and realize the whole situation was blown way out of proportion. That judge set the path mark is currently on. Obviously taking somebody’s freedom isn’t small but to me it seems like an example of the butterfly effect. You never know what ripples your actions will cause but that judge did not make a reasonable decision and a man’s life was essentially taken

[@BlessAeroz]

worked in a maximum security prison for 4 years can confirm i met some of the stupidest and some of the smartest people ever in there

[@ryurc3033]

I feel for this dude big time, I'm a mobile mechanic, I carry all my tools I'm my truck, generally I have a terrible time socializing, people confuse me, and am generally misunderstood. This could have been me if things went different in my life. But the acid story reminds me of a story I heard at least 15 years ago, where a guy was putting lsd on cops door handles somewhere in southern California.

[@edcctf]

Most youtubers apologize if they go over 20 minutes. I listen to you for over 40 and wonder where the time went!! You sir, have the shine! :)

[@jx2794]

Holy sh*t, that was 40 minutes!

[@edcctf]

@@jx2794 I know right!

[@Ch4pp13]

Think it's because there's been a trend of cutting down video length which in turn shortens attention span meaning shorter videos do better and so on and so forth. If you really want to play the system, why make a 60 minute video about a topic when you can release 3 20 minute videos so you can triple the amount of engagement?

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

I have asperger's and think that his actions are completely understandable. There's something about injustice that particularly frustrates and angers me. I'm actually surprised that he didn't murder every single one of those 15 inmates that attacked him.

[@hypno5690]

I agree with your post. I have down's syndrome and im missing a leg and i have half a brain and my face is falling off.

[@butthz8850]

@@hypno5690 if you were Australian, you could be Upside Downsy

[@Cooe.]

... -_- ... Literally EVERYONE "has Asperger's" or "Autism" or whatever else is cool that week these days... So much self-diagnosed bullshit (yes, I'm calling you out) gives people like the guy in this video with ACTUAL PROBLEMS a bad name & a harder time.

[@dabtican4953]

@@Cooe. tbh they may actually have it but i agree with you

[@cannaroe1213]

@@Cooe. No, aspergers isn't "i'm on the autistic spectrum somewhere teehee" it has specific, testable symptoms like good memorization of numbers but poor if asked for them in reverse, things like that. Also we all tend to f*** our lives up with misunderstandings, you know. It's not something you only deal with when it's cool. It's probably the least cool mental disorder, but it's OK because you can make up for it with a sick fedora and katana desu ne.

[@OllievRV]

This is fucking brutal and heartwrenching, this poor man couldve been an immense addition to mankind.

[@randyhaglund7557]

The fact this guys whole life was ruined by our justice system and still is in prison while murderers get 20 years. I wonder why we have so many people locked up per capita.... Could it be the self righteous police, judge's, prosecutors, wardens etc. I bet he had a public pretender for counsel all he had to do is get a copy of the will and show the judge tools were his....

[@GatorMilk]

Take a man's freedom... You hurt his soul. Break a man's buck... You hurt his hole. Poor Mark.

[@atenthunderbolt4215]

Buck Status: Broken sneed

[@distorfilsgud9680]

oooh man I love you really :))) laughing my ass off with a doobie cheers bud. When you said LSD and then Mark I instantly said to myself is that where they got the idea for all the movie scenes ?? too good....

[@willrisley]

Love your channel, just found it recently and am a huge fan. Keep the great content coming brother

[@Stitchlii]

You be radicalized.... Kidding

[@imgrindin]

Check out the infamous dank pug video 🤣

[@LiquidShadows]

Welcome to our sick and demented family!

[@XOChristianaNicole]

Took ya long enough..

[@ckiimyirhnski1056]

My God. This is the most depressing Mad Lads yet. Poor poor guy this is horrible

[@urchinblues7928]

This is how Batman villains are made

[@dorugoramon0518]

@@urchinblues7928 If you gave this dude a billion dollars he would *become* batman.

[@TheSlammurai]

I think Uday's Mad Lad was more depressing for different reasons but this one is definitely a runner up.

[@jmace2424]

22:31 “Is that a zip gun in your pocket or you just happy to see me?” 🤣

[@celticviking577]

Mark is one of the many examples of why we need extreme prison reform and criminal justice reform

[@ValDominator]

abolish the state

[@celticviking577]

@@ValDominator and end the fed.

[@kopykat6843]

Agreed

[@jamesmahon6788]

I can just imagine the guards and prisoners in the ward laughing then immediately the "Oh fuck" when Mark shot the phone. Poor guy though getting utterly fucked like this, and it all stated because of that incident about the tools that were going to be his anyway...

[@nathanbrown6515]

I worked as a corrections officer for 3 years at what was FSP, now Union Correctional Institute or UCI, from 2017 to 2020 and absolutely hated it. There is something about the job that just turns you into your worst self. I became hateful, I would do things out of spite and then bring it home to my wife. I realized that working there was a cancer in my life and quit and now I actively promote prison reform.

[@TheDrudgenator]

this dude is knocking these out the park now, so much contending gonna make bearing feel bad lol

[@marmarbinx3458]

I did not understand the last half of that sentence.

[@realityshotgun]

Bearings content is trash compared to Dank. It's trash compared to most youtubers, honestly.

[@thephantomraspberryblower2675]

Bearing has jumped the shark years ago mate

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

Keep in mind, this man's life was wasted because his step-mother was an absolute catch you next Tuesday. But yeah, believe all women, guys. They totally never lie. Why would they?!

[@jasontandy3357]

After a mountain of evidence detailing female nature I will never believe another woman, ever again

[@somagai467]

No, this mans life was wasted because he chose to keep doing stupid shit to dig himself further into a hole.

[@snowcloudshinobi]

@@somagai467 you've made it your life's mission apparently to go and disagree with everyone in the comments that a gifted but mentally unwell man was actually mentally unwell. get a hobby, dude.

[@ThomasOwOD]

But it's not like she lied, he did commit a crime and she didn't get him further sentences, that was all him

[@LordVader1094]

@@ThomasOwOD It was a pure technicality that got him 4 years. She didn't give a shit about the tools, and the will simply hadn't gone probate. Are you honestly trying to pretend she was being truthful by calling it theft in that context? Him trying to be free after that is completely understandable. Especially as conditions worsened.

[@Keaks_]

He could have used an eyedropper to spike their coffee, the fact he did that whole bottle was INSANE.

[@Zac_Frost]

Those peoples' brains must've been permanently altered after that lol.

[@partizanforces3064]

Hearing a Scotsman say thick bristled brush is pretty fun 😄

[@adonissherlock]

THECK BRESOWLLED BRASH

[@lsswappedcessna]

what about purple burglar alarm?

[@Poxymonkeypox]

Can we all just appreciate the fact the doctor who sent him back legally had the second name "Bellend"....

[@dogbog99]

You did really well on this one, was a great watch. thank you for telling this story so well

[@randyb3851]

This is so sad. If anyone trusts the government then send them this video. The government ruined this mans life based off of one lie and one stupid decision by a socially awkward young man. They literally took his freedom, almost took the love of his life, and his dignity.

[@TAGGARTPSN]

A people's government have the best K:D against their own the world over.

[@silasmarner7586]

I think there were SERIOUS issues in his mental state and that the arc of his life, plus or minus, would have looked sooooommmething like this, more or less, sooner or later.

[@gavinrolls1054]

@@silasmarner7586 because incriminating people because of what YOU THINK they will do is totally logical and impartial

[@craigdouglas4099]

@@silasmarner7586 and if so, only proves the system is evil and fucked. So is anyone who approves of it's mistreatment of any unfortunate and undeserving human being. Especially when it's to the horrific degree of this specific example

[@LordVader1094]

@@silasmarner7586 Or, he could've kept his damn tools, become an engineer, and been fine.

[@ZeranZeran]

May those guards all wake up into a next life of the same treatment they gave and let Mark go through. Poor man.

[@Makujah_]

I have shown mild autism symptoms my whole life and have spent a year against my will in a farfetched-ly prison like environment for a crime of being born a man in Russia. My experience is *nowhere* *near* what Mark endures to this focking day (disgusting), but having dipped the end of my toe nail in such a life,this story resonates with me. People are scary

[@thetacticalpuertorican]

I came across this channel randomly and I gotta say. It has absolutely become one of my favorite. Take my subscription!

[@thcdenton]

My cousin died in a police standoff after he failed to see a shrink. This one hit hard. I fucking hate our prison system so much.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Cops only make those kinds of situations worse.

[@thcdenton]

​@@TheRealRusDaddy Just to clarify that I don't blame the police for my cousins death, I blame the system. The police were all pro's and they did not kill him. My cousin killed himself. He'd rather die than go back to the abuse in jail.

[@blackie126]

@@TheRealRusDaddy kekw

[@kopel_4]

I’m so glad your doing do well with these videos!