Weirdest Weapons Prisoners Made While Locked Up

[@The_Blazement]

no matter how horrible of a person they might be, i feel that some of the prisoners who come up with stuff like this could have their skills put to better use

[@Wildstar40]

Crossbow guy should have worked for Nerf.

[@brianedwards7142]

(Puts on Maxwell Smart voice) If only he'd used his abilities for niceness instead of evil. But seriously, one of the reasons I think prisons are a bronze age answer to crime is the terrible waste of potential. We can do better in a scientific age.

[@n2np09]

Especially after seven successful attempts and five failed.

[@Jake-fj7wc]

To every natural positivity there’s a negative one

[@n2np09]

@@Jake-fj7wc and vice versa

[@gamerdad5363]

I used to work at a prison, found and confiscated an entire bag of shanks, was allowed to even take 1 home as a trophy lol

[@runsolomon]

I hope you're not telling the truth the contraband was extra charges for whoever made it or possessed it and you removed evidence by taking it home

[@BTMBINO]

@@runsolomon lol the CO’s do what they please in prisons, especially private owned ones

[@sendthis9480]

@@runsolomon You should put it on a giant poster board with other confiscated items…like the 6th grade science projects they always show whenever a journalist goes to a prison.

[@gamerdad5363]

@@runsolomon it wasn't exactly a well run prison, I was a first year and was told I could take 1, I didn't ask questions... it was the guy a gang had hold them all for them so if it was found only he went down, it's a common thing.

[@R0FLC4T5]

@@runsolomon you seem to underestimate how evidence intake works. He said a "BAG of shanks" after photographing, documenting, and logging that...there is absolutely no reduction in severity if ONE of them is not logged.

[@memeteeme1571]

I like how that one guy that made all those guns said he was in a gunsmith "phase." And how they gave the nunchuck guy the meme noises everybody does when they have nunchucks.

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

I'm amazed prison management didn't take a prisoner's autism into account. If they'd given him something to do, because he's clearly creative and intelligent, that time could have been spent improving his life. Leaving people bored and resentful, with nothing but time on their hands, is the quickest way to trouble. If you're going to imprison someone at least help them improve themselves, teach them a marketable skill, help them stay OUT of prison in future. I feel like this shouldn't need explaining.

[@SithoDude]

There's a prison in Norway i think that solely puts rehabilitation first and actually treats their inmates like a decent human being, as well as teaching them key life skills and education so when they eventually do their time and come out they can contribute to society.

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

@@SithoDude Exactly.

[@mad_huntress_8796]

It's incredibly sad how the prisons try to manipulate people to do bad things while in prison so they stay in longer.

[@SithoDude]

@@mad_huntress_8796 It's true prison gangs are notorious for this, especially when they want to recruit a new recruit they'll get them to go out and perform a task (stab another inmate for example) which may/will essentially just extend their time.

[@The_Blazement]

knowing america, his autism was probably part of the reason he was put in prison

[@yanmay9824]

I spent a total of 9 years inside over the course of 3 different sentences ( thankfully I've sorted myself out now and haven't been back in about 25 years) one of the funniest things I have ever seen inside was in Full Sutton jail. A fellow inmate attack another with a pp9 battery ( a large heavy square 9v battery about as heavy as a brick) in a sock, the guy walked straight up to his victim with the wepon behind his back, as he reached the guy he swung it at the guys head with all the strength he could muster only for the end of the sock to give way, the battery flew out the end resulting in the attacker just hitting the guy across the face with an empty sock. Needless to say it didn't end well for the attacker lol.

[@EndlessGamerBlue-EG]

We're You actually in jail one time

[@drips1030]

🤣🤣

[@yanmay9824]

@@EndlessGamerBlue-EG no as I stated the 9 years was over the course of 3 separate sentences. The first was a12 month sentence as a youth offender which I served all 12 months of, the second and third were as an adult and were both 6 years in length of which I served 4 years on each the total being 9 years actual time served.

[@tensinkano6888]

Seen it happen with a large rock What you’re supposed to do is use both socks. Tying them closed at each end .and alternating

[@drips1030]

@Repent or you will likewise perish. Are you on drugs?

[@takeohtyme]

I've seen a guy make, what is effectively, a deadly potato gun in jail. He used some batteries and wires to make hydrogen and oxygen. I'm not gonna explain in detail, but dude managed to shoot a ballbearing clean through the cell wall.

[@lunaticgaming7967]

That's fairly impressive...

[@RuiLuz]

Was his name MacGyver?

[@bentboybbz]

Jail??? we def dont get any of that in jail here....

[@nintenbloxx_official]

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY and z, now I now my abc’s, next time won’t you sing with me, anyways what is prison

[@bluesteel1664]

@Derek Cano Either that, or he was the sole survivor from Fallout. Man could make deadly weapons from worthless junk

[@TheLithp]

I was hoping to see the soap gun. I know it wasn't a real gun, but c'mon, escaping prison with a fake gun carved from soap is comedy gold.

[@amiriki]

Comedy soap*

[@catherineluis410]

@@amiriki HAHAHAHAH okay

[@vitamind2943]

What if you drop it ?

[@clrue]

That would have to be a Slippy Escape......No?....Anybody?...Okay ill stop....

[@philipweber8013]

Dillinger used a wooden gun not a gun made of soap

[@knotzed]

The guy making the guns was wrongfully convinced thats why he was so hellbent on getting out and had such a grudge made guns but would never hurt anyone because he wasn't a criminal..

[@michaelmaxim7207]

B.S

[@SomeOldGamers]

Agreed.

[@nameismetatoo4591]

If I ever find myself in prison, I'm gonna make it my mission to craft an improvised weapon that ends up in a museum (with no intention of harming anyone)

[@SomeOldGamers]

Eventually, someone will give you a reason to use it.

[@Oliver-m8i]

yess

[@michealthomas4331]

What I keep hearing about is simple, yet horrifyingly effective. So, apparently, some prisoners will put baby oil in a cup and microwave it. When their victim comes close, they throw the boiling hot baby oil in their face. I've even heard it can make your face literally melt off. Now, THAT is scary.

[@bentboybbz]

oof oil sticks to you...and microwave can get things VERY hot....ouch

[@adrianaslund8605]

I heard it was melted sugar.

[@kanaanwhite9989]

I heard it was mayonnaise

[@mikeyseibert1406]

Ha. Most prisons don’t have microwaves. They have hot pots. And the way it works. Is baby oil and a snickers candy bar are melted, then thrown on someone. The caramel from the snickers will cool to the skin. It will then make it to where skin comes off.I saw it in person in 2002.

[@MrRebustr]

I heard it was shaving cream ....we all here bullshitters....all them was caught ...

[@How__]

As a Canadian, It’s nice to see us on the top of a list for once.

[@brandonballman4915]

Nice

[@Klipschrf35]

Let alone mabitoba

[@TheRealScootie]

⁸õ

[@williamwebb5351]

John Garand, the designer of the M1 Garand 30-06 military rifle was also a Canadian.

[@lilchungs3547]

take the w anyway you can lol

[@jeremyjames2643]

I’ve done a few years made quite a few weapons myself with razors combs newspapers anything metal. Made spears, small shanks, nunchucks etc any weapon you can think of with enough time you can make it.

[@joemck74]

Note the pattern of 'Guy gets thrown into hellish conditions on a ridiculously minor charge........'

[@JohnDoe-xf9bn]

This is the problem with private prisons. They want to house as many people as possible in the cheapest conditions possible. That's why they bribe politicians to make harsher laws every year

[@SomeOldGamers]

That's mostly what they do. Likely 75% of the people in prison don't belong there.

[@godkingathleticsllc4218]

Peewee Gaskins! My home state of South Carolina. My father worked as a corrections officer for 28 years, and, not only was there when all this happened, but my father was on the death squad that executed Peewee.

[@tylerlawlerDEVGRU]

I made a shank with a commissary toothbrush, Chinese trapped paper roll, and headphone wires. The steel desk and concrete sharpened my shank. Flushed down the toilet.

[@dodoubleg2356]

"Disassociation cell." Leave it up to Canada to find a way to make solitary confinement sound polite & friendly. 😂

[@b42w4242]

A buddy of mine who is now dead used to make crossbows in prison and used to shoot out lights and arm rival gangs to spread as much chaos as possible behind bars. Dude was a trip

[@markusmeinhard9472]

Wy

[@Oliver-m8i]

how did he die?

[@Olfop]

Fun fact its not illegal here in germany to break out of prison (but while not in custody your sentenced time does not pass). And youre still gonna face charges for the damage caused on property and people while your breakout.

[@Cogic]

So you can go apply for a job and it won't show on your record you just escaped from prison

[@canewalker41]

One of the most famous American carbines of WW2 was made in a prison by an inmate named Williams. He made the .30 cal. M1 Carbine. It had a rocker switch on it for choosing semi or fully automatic fire. A movie was even made about him and his weapon starring Jimmy Stewart as Mr. Williams. I believe the name of the movie is "Carbine Williams". Carbine

[@thelastengineer8633]

fun fact in germany u dont get extra years for escaping prison u only get charged for potential things u broke or people u hurt etc. and lose ur chance for an earlier release

[@jamessmith-hh9wz]

I think the craziest one I’ve heard was on a 1000 ways to die, where a guy got a deck of cards, he got a one sided open cylinder, ripped up the cards, and melted them down after sealing the ripped up cards and made the water boil making a home made bomb, backfired on him tho cause he disturbed the concoction up close and bit the dust.

[@chayneharding9583]

There was another instance of inmates using the coffee creamer flamethrower. In 1991 during a riot at the Montana State Prison it was used to breach the control cages of the Maximum Security Unit.

[@JohnDoe-uy8gc]

When i did a 10 year bid back in the mid 90s. You will be surprised how creative how some of the inmates were. We’re thinking non stop

[@ives3572]

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." - Nelson Mandela

[@SomeOldGamers]

Yeah, absolutely true. The system is broken, law enforcement is lousy with fascists, courts ignore their crimes and send innocent people to prison.

[@DoggosAndJiuJitsu]

I was a CO and sergeant in Arizona DOC at all custody levels. This is 100% possible.

[@Mario87456]

You gotta admit inmates can get pretty creative in prison such as creating their own weapons.

[@bakerman42]

with enough time, they can bult a glider and fly away 😆lol

[@Oliver-m8i]

ye

[@johneckerd1750]

One of the best shows on KZbin. Very informative!

[@marcom6089]

Can you imagine if they used all that creativity to create something good before going to prison, rather than creating harmful weapon just to hurt someone else.

[@peacefollower5026]

We don't have enough time in outside of presion it can be seen as we should divert prisoners mind in a constructive way they have a lot of time and nothing to do so they try to scape or revenge Sorry for my bad English

[@sangbeom]

@@peacefollower5026 its fine

[@michaeljacob3778]

As they say ”necessity is the mother of all inventions"

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

sugar... potassium nitrate aluminum sulfate. a mesh and a fire works or flair gun.

[@spacekadebt1641]

What's this recipe make? Gunpowder?

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

And if u rly want a bang use compressed gas.. Oxygen.ceteline.propane ect

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

Yes white powder 2/3 potassium nitrate 1/3sugar

[@lanelightfooy1060]

@@sebastienleblanc2708 whats white powder

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

White gunpowder

[@kosuuqwk]

Heavy water ballon + the fact that hitting water at high speed basically makes it a solid = deadly weapon

[@Qualicabyss]

Has a short prison sentence Tries to escape 13 times Stays in prison for nearly 4 decades Not a smart move

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@michaelb.42112]

I love the animation ! That being said, the prison system in America is not meant to rehabilitate, but it does the opposite. It makes better criminals. I used to think that if you escaped from prison, then you earned a chance at freedom. It takes smarts, patience, leadership skills, everything a top executive has. Since we don't ride Unicorns, it's a shame the world doesn't work like a fairy tale with a happy ending and all good intentions.

[@ragnorockcookie2868]

toothpaste has a component that can make gun powder but good luck using enogh to make a once

[@Atius8]

You can make several of the weapons mentioned here in the prison escape game The Escapists.

[@othelloperrello6604]

Surprised no slings have been done. I guess it's unlikely a skilled slinger would be in prison. I guess if I ever get framed for something, I could make history.

[@TheMiner1B]

i love the pronunciation of the german prison i had to listen quit carefully to understand

[@Punisher_MrWick]

In Folsom prison inmates made a helicopter! Folsom is also the only prison that a warden has been killed!

[@fiftycal1]

There’s an old saying in Yiddish…”ליידיק הענט זענען די דעוויל ס וואָרקשאָפּ⁠”…Idle hands are The Devil’s Workshop. I know absolutely nothing about prison. I do know putting a group of folks in confinement & giving them nothing to do all day long is a prescription for disaster. They will inevitably devise weapons out of the most mundane and ordinary of objects.

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

crucifix dagger sounds like something every demon hunter should be having

[@skitariiranger4346]

You could most likely buy one goth people sell all sorts of cool things

[@fard2780]

crucifix pistol also sounds cool

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

@@fard2780 ikr

[@strawfr]

My uncle is a police officer and one of the inmates said he had a shank (It was a popsicle stick with a piece of metal on it)

[@ragnorockcookie2868]

you can use paper just straight up toilet paper. and string to make crossbows.

[@gernhartreinholzen3992]

5:36 That Mark DeFriest guy is awesome! Prison made him into a criminal. Get him out of there, give him a workshop and let him start a KZbin channel! He may be even a better tinkerer than Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage!

[@callofmemes5347]

How did the gun work ( the most advanced one) I don’t get how they fired it or where the trigger mechanism is

[@glenn6583]

I don’t believe many of these ‘stories’.

[@dreamingflurry2729]

That escape-master should have come to Germany! Escaping from prison is not a crime here!

[@SUPAASUIT]

I would be proud if my crossbow was in a museum even tho it was made to escape prison 💀

[@SomeOldGamers]

it is even easier to make a bow but most people don't know how to use one.

[@johngammon6450]

imagine a prisoner sees this basically weapon tutorial

[@MrDlt123]

I dont even want to know how that dude smuggled in a stick of dynamite.

[@barbiquearea]

I am absolutely amazed that you can make a working gun without gunpowder. This is why weapon smiths and anyone with an engineering background should be heavily monitored and isolated from the rest of gen pop when they go to prison.

[@CrocvsGator]

But then wouldn't you have all the engineers and weapon smiths together? Edit: what I mean is, if you put people from similar backgrounds together, they usually can communicate in ways undetected by people monitoring them.

[@stevefox3763]

Gunpowder/blackpowder is just a single type of low explosive/propellant and something thats not been used in firearms for a very long time, just about anything that rapidly decomposes can be used as a propellent with varying effectiveness, a gun is nothing more than a tool to fire a projectile with a gas.

[@Wildstar40]

I'm amazed C4 made it into a prison to a prisoner.

[@barbiquearea]

@@stevefox3763 Don't bullets still hold gunpowder in them?

[@generictag1050]

@@barbiquearea modern bullets yeah, but you can still manually load the propellant, like with muskets and other older guns

[@mechgranical2422]

@JoergSprave at 12:13 I think that found an interesting crossbow to try to mockup, I would like to see this in action 😁😁

[@Benni777]

Jolly Ranchers: sour yet deadly! 🤭😂

[@121goldenfox5]

Guy in canadian prison made a crossbow :this guy is a true hunter

[@ahonnaga8854]

I also made myself a high tech weapon during my time in prison by the powers vested to me that somebody gave me while I was locked up, from the correctional institution of Lompoc, that's up North.

[@ayshakhan4896]

Dude ..... Wtf

[@just-a-fnf-fan]

Dude wtf bruh

[@thegamehouse4245]

...

[@diogenes5850]

Suuuuuuure

[@Man929-r1c]

Cap

[@bruv2116]

Only if my classmates could be this creative

[@noahater5785]

That’s not the only way to make a flamethrower, gasoline in a spray bottle also works because the gasoline ignites on contact with air once atomized, although you’re not going to last long before the plastic nozzle melts due to the heat

[@noahater5785]

Atomized in a fine mist

[@kibalu1024]

7:26 "GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST!"

[@cavjaga8176]

humans get real creative when it come to hurting eachother

[@peacefollower5026]

That's the base of mediaeval mechanical engineering 😁 They create different mechanisms just to torture someone use of scientific concepts in machines of malice is interesting

[@cavjaga8176]

@@peacefollower5026 it sure is

[@BasedKingZoZo]

What if someone made a jolly rancher crossbow with jolly rancher arrows (the string from blue mats is pretty elastic so they could use that as a tension string )

[@samuelfernandez6233]

That's creativity man .

[@bulldogcowwy3959]

“He was able to build this is in a cage! With a box of scraps!”

[@poppasmurf1179]

I remember as a kid making bb guns/dart guns/ slingshots.with pvc get a few pair of rubber gloves cut the fingers off layer them then zip tie too one end of pvc..worked like a charm.

[@MrBakedDaily]

My bunkie and I made some crossbows 12 years ago .We pulled our socks elastic threads and braiding it for the string.Also never heard of a shive,You must mean shank?

[@lanelightfooy1060]

yeah shanks probly a better term

[@batticusmanacleas510]

Shiv is just a synonym of shank. Both are used.

[@ThumperG]

Shiv = shank Same thing

[@drakeweddner]

@@ThumperG im probably wrong but i was told thay shiv is a noun shank is a verb

[@ThumperG]

@@drakeweddner It could be used that way, but shiv is just another word for shank. Where I’m from we call a knife a shank. And if you use it to stab someone you can say you “shanked” them. However some older dudes I know do instead call the weapon a shiv. Shank can be used as a noun or verb.

[@jessekamo]

When will you guys do the next backrooms video you’d been talking about? Have been waiting for it for a long time now! :)

[@UnoriginalKorsk]

Go watch a youtube channel dedicated to the backrooms

[@jessekamo]

@@UnoriginalKorsk go play Roblox

[@UnoriginalKorsk]

@@jessekamo come play among us tycoon 2

[@mundaner-1163]

@@UnoriginalKorsk or maybe roblox backrooms? 😳

[@Dodo_CR]

7:12 the Vollzugs Anstalt in Germany 🤣🤣

[@lilygamingtheories1410]

DeFriest was clearly just suffering and they should have given him some other punishment because of his ASD, but he was clearly super smart so they could have used his skills to build things for people. Community service while on house arrest or so forth, he wasn’t dangerous, he never hurt anyone he just was desperate to get out because it was miserable for him… so sad. And not even having toiletries? That’s inhumane.

[@SomeOldGamers]

The system works like this. The whole system. These kinds of human rights violations are endemic. Is broken and brutalizing people in the name of the people. It is disgusting and wrong and every American should be utterly ashamed of it.

[@lilygamingtheories1410]

@@SomeOldGamers I know it’s terrible but I’m not even old enough to vote so I can’t really do much about it

[@tombaron3646]

that shotgun is a real peace of German engernering.

[@ItsINCOGNITO513]

6:57 imagine eating soup with your hands💀

[@psycronizer]

next they'll be telling us that some prisoner cut the metal bars out of a window to make a rifle, rather than just leave ...

[@glenn6583]

Ha ha. Good comment!

[@mrfeelinggood4312]

7.12 I thought it went in to rewind lol

[@jpjp9111]

If someone hurt my parents, that someone would deserve a painful payback. I applaud that guy for getting even with the bad guy.

[@osufr1gid]

thanks for the tips

[@gopnikstyle9148]

LoL idk but that radio bomb was pretty darn funny 🤣

[@CryptoDexter777]

7:13 I thought my phone is lagging 😂

[@killgronia5815]

Ive always heard that some of the smartest people we’re inside. Some never applied themselves on the outside, and others there for bad choices.

[@nastymkfan]

I’m watching this to see what my enemies will be using if they get out of jail.

[@literalfeline]

Its easy todo this stuff, and its scary, FUn fact, during the banning of buying parts to weapons at home (I think? It was a weapons ban of some kind.) Philip Luty proved that you could make a fully functioning automatic SMG with jsut some scrap

[@ayoitsyayo]

I remember we made a particle accelerator in jail with a couple bed frames and a lighter but the guy with the blueprints made bail and we didn’t finish it

[@glenn6583]

Bull!

[@Nyctonaut]

You'd be absolutely amazed by some of the stuff people make in jail. From food, to art... I once knew a guy who made and sold the most badass jollyrancher art for people's letters and cards. It's hard to explain but imagine like a 3d rose on a love letter from melted jolly ranchers. So cool!

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

I heard they brew Moonshine with the toilets tops.

[@Nyctonaut]

If anyone knows better, correct me if I'm wrong cuz once again I've never done it myself. Just seen it done and tasted it too. It's not horrible, not great. But it'll get you drunk lol

[@batticusmanacleas510]

Nobody I saw ever used a toilet. A trash bag works better.

[@sebastienleblanc2708]

They use Pop bottle s veg s or fruits then they brew it.

[@Nyctonaut]

@@batticusmanacleas510 yeah that's what I was saying, I always saw it made in trash bags.

[@Wicc_234]

Don’t let a engineer go to prison!

[@Trey_816]

"You gotta do what you can with what you got." -Burt Gummer

[@Hazzzy021]

Love your channel & work, but absolutely hate how you don't even include any pictures of the stuff and people have to google 100 times while watching ur vids just for some pics or more info...

[@Pxsted_up]

Rust weapons be like:

[@noahater5785]

Pipe guns from the Fallout franchise be like:

[@lanelightfooy1060]

satchels be like 1:51

[@iaminvincible4441]

I was hoping you mention Tony stark making iron suit in a prison at the end of your video and end with a laughter.

[@mauzarium2066]

7:28 Czechs are pretty good at engineering too

[@guts60]

German science’s the world’s finest!

[@Technopath894]

8:21 someonen 🥺 please 😖 TELL ME what that show or movie iss pleeeease 🥺🥺😍😌

[@justinyeacoob9572]

I live in Celle Germany. I walk past that prison nearly every day! 😂 7:15

[@Femaiden]

The jolly ranchers thing, i believe it. those things can cut the roof of your mouth while eating them. . .They are frigging sharp

[@Geo6590.]

9:14 he did the unthinkable 😰

[@АлександрЖданов-ш7ь]

а. в. России. в. промзоне. делают. все. . от. ПМ. до. выкидух. .и. все. это. продают. на. воле. !

[@Hammer7212YT]

Hey man can you show how to step by step on how to make this thanks man. 😁👍

[@Releothunder]

Nun chuck quite an odd choice considering they take quite a bit of training and even still they have poor lethality cause they are extremely flexible meaning they transfer force poorly plus they are also very low range even for meley weapons probly been better off just making short spikes from what the handles were made of

[@BROK-ju5og]

Love the content man! does the king reply?

[@Wicc_234]

Pretty sure if that man who escaped 7 times successfully could really do something deadly if he wanted to

[@mrj8726]

2:00 that took a turn

[@lokket9995]

Prison inmates watching this and learning.

[@chriswarr3676]

The milk whiteners for your tea or coffee is flammable as well. We'll, here in the UK it is.

[@Ofgaming1152]

Can we buy these

[@SerHalfrican]

unknowingly being dosed in prison is a horrifying thought

[@soldier1913]

“He was good with his hands” *bruh*