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  • you scared the hell out of people and caused a lot of anxiety and fear and at the end of the day, I can't say I feel good about that.

  • Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 prison escapes caught on camera at about nine p.m. Prison authorities inside Altiplano lost visual contact with Mr Guzman for this list.

  • We'll be looking at the most audacious, ingenious and outrageous jailbreaks captured on video.

  • What real life breakout moment captured your attention.

  • Let us know in the comments Number 10.

  • You left the keys in the ignition for a prison guard being able to count convicts is an essential skill.

  • It's the way we did bad.

  • When Donald nicely arrived with his fellow inmates in the prison garage, he noticed that the officers weren't paying close attention while the others were filing into the building, nicely ducked behind the van.

  • His luck was running high because nobody noticed he was missing on top of that.

  • The keys of the transport van were still in the ignition.

  • The bold criminal hit the gas and drove right through the garage door and eventually into a line of trees.

  • The officers shortly had him safely behind locked doors.

  • It just goes to show that just because you have the keys to the van, it doesn't mean you can actually drive it.

  • Number nine Houdini in handcuffs unless you know some nifty magic tricks, it's generally assumed that handcuffs are difficult to get out of a Wisconsin.

  • Woman didn't seem to think they were a problem.

  • Amber Gonzalez was left alone in a holding room reportedly to arrange for bail on a cell phone.

  • With just a little bit of effort, she was able to wiggle out of the restraints.

  • Then Gonzalez took keys from the door and used them to get to an emergency exit.

  • She was later for found at the same hotel from which she was arrested.

  • She walked through yards to a gas station where she met up with a truck driver and the two went back to the same waukesha hotel.

  • The guards claimed they put the cuffs on very tightly.

  • Maybe they just didn't expect a small woman to have tiny hands.

  • Number eight.

  • Perfect timing.

  • It takes some spectacular timing to make it through a heavy door that's about to seal shut.

  • When he arrived at the prison garage, my Michael Maldonado decided it was worth the risk.

  • He jumped from the back seat of a police car to the front and out the driver's side door.

  • Then he ducked underneath the garage door just as it was close.

  • The officers had to reopen the door before they could pursue in the footage.

  • Maldonado can be seen sprinting across the parking lot.

  • It took a full day for them to track him down.

  • It goes to show that when someone's chasing you, a person can indeed be motivated to run very fast.

  • Number seven inside.

  • Help most of the time when you hear about a prison break, you assume that they had a complicated plan.

  • Let's face it though, only someone like tom cruise would have someone in place to just open all of the gates for him.

  • Well for three inmates in New Mexico.

  • Their escape was just that simple.

  • The footage shows the inmates walking easily through all of the jail's doors and gates come back real soon will you don't hold your breath?

  • It was assumed that someone helped them make this simple escape.

  • The footage which shows an on duty female officer looking extremely stressed, pointed to the culprit.

  • She was later arrested as an accomplice in their escape.

  • The three inmates were returned to jail a few days later.

  • Now they're outside.

  • Help was on the inside.

  • Number six.

  • Guess we should close that window if you see.

  • Mr Austell don't take matters into your own hands.

  • He should be considered very, very dangerous.

  • It can be so irritating when there's nobody manning a reception desk and all you see is an empty window.

  • What would be frustrating for an average person was the perfect opportunity for an inmate in Arkansas.

  • Derek estelle was having a telephone conversation in a visitation room.

  • One of his fellow inmates made inquiries of the guards.

  • They left the room to figure things out with the area left unsupervised estelle dove through the reception window to make his escape.

  • His girlfriend was waiting outside in a car and his escape was complete.

  • They were both eventually apprehended and s still had an extra 40 years added to his sentence.

  • Maybe not such a fortunate opportunity after all.

  • Number five If at first you don't succeed escaping prison by helicopter is a fairly impressive feat.

  • How about doing it twice?

  • Vasilis paella Costa's was known as the Greek Robin Hood because he gave money.

  • He stole to those who didn't have as much.

  • It was quite a media sensation in 2006 when he escaped his 25 year prison sentence, two of his friends rented a tourist helicopter and made the pilot land in the prison yard a year after he was returned to prison in 2008 pal Acosta's escaped again in almost the exact same way.

  • This time they climbed a rope ladder to the helicopter to escape his accomplice.

  • Alcatraz.

  • I was captured and is serving out his prison time pallet Costa's is still free and has since been dubbed the Uncatchable Number four Freedom or fame.

  • This is our casa right now, for the moment this is our crib.

  • Most prisoners would prefer there be no evidence of their escape, not these three inmates from California.

  • However, they filmed their entire breakout on a contraband cellphone.

  • The video shows them crawling into event they climbed through plumbing tunnels to the rooftop, although their method of getting to the ground wasn't filmed, they later claimed to use a rope, they kidnapped a cab driver who drove them to where they had a van set up with supplies.

  • We were so grateful he decided to help us.

  • This man is truly a hero.

  • The three escapees were picked up by the police while chilling in their mobile hideout.

  • They turned the footage into an edited video with music and voiceovers bragging about their deeds.

  • Was having their selfie video online worth the extra time in jail.

  • Number three food goes in, prisoner goes out.

  • When you think of a prisoner locked up alone in a prison cell, you can't help but also picture the food door, that open space in the door is narrow so that food can go in but prisoners can't get out.

  • Well, one particularly agile prisoner in Russia wasn't about to let that stop him.

  • The prison footage clearly show him squeezing his body through the tiny food hatch.

  • He gets stuck for a moment but manages to wiggle his way out.

  • All that's left to do was put on his clothes and calmly exit.

  • It's an astounding feat, but it took a couple of minutes.

  • Why didn't anyone see it on camera?

  • What were the prison guards doing?

  • So he just gets away with it.

  • Is that how it works?

  • Number two spared no expense, worried that he would be extradited to the US Joaquin el Chapo Guzman decided to leave his prison cell behind, his family and friends built a mile long tunnel that connected to the shower of Guzman's cell.

  • The prison footage shows him putting on his shoes and then disappearing behind the low shower wall?

  • Evidence suggests that he then used a motorcycle on rails to travel to the end of the well lit tunnel.

  • It's hard to imagine the construction of a well equipped escape route would have gone unnoticed.

  • Was it a true break out or was it a well orchestrated drama to hide the involvement of the prison security?

  • We may never know before we continue.

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  • Number one that was unexpected.

  • Why?

  • Plan an escape that only lets out one prisoner when you can create ultimate chaos and release many more.

  • Maybe one day we'll find out, Oh, you better hope that day never comes.

  • Nobody knows who planned this tumultuous escape, but it was simple and effective.

  • In 1995, a bulldozer slammed into the wall of a Danish prison emotion.

  • A TV crew showed up just in time to film between 12 and 13 prisoners running away in a cloud of dust and debris.

  • The police detained one of the cameramen because the timing of their arrival seemed suspicious.

  • Only three of the escapees were ever caught.

  • It's also unclear if anyone was driving the bulldozer when it slammed into the wall, it could have been a machine uprising, but more likely the driver escaped in the chaos.

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you scared the hell out of people and caused a lot of anxiety and fear and at the end of the day, I can't say I feel good about that.

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