This Man Escaped Prison FOUR Times

Here in the US, about one in every 200 people are incarcerated, but of these staggering 1.9 million offenders in the

prison

system, only three percent managed to escape and most of them come from low-income facilities. security; However, in Japan, a

prison

er named Yoshi Shiratori became famous for escaping from maximum security imprisonment, not once, not twice, but

four

times

and, believe it or not, two of those

times

he used a bowl of soup Of miso to do it, as you would expect, his story is pretty crazy, so stick around to find out why no jail could do it. Keep

this

amazing escape artist, thanks, we would like to think that life is fair, the good guys are rewarded and the bad guys are punished accordingly, but does it really work like that?

For Yoshi Shiratori, he was not born in Almori, Japan, in 1907, he never knew it. His mother and father died tragically when Shuritori was only two years old. The little orphan Shirtori was adopted by a new family that owned a tofu shop, however,

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was not a free boarding house every day, he had to work from dawn to dusk making tofu, which he did. and at the age of 21 he already had a wife and three beautiful children. His shiratori dreamed of giving his children a better life, so he left the tofu shop to work as a fisherman, but life aboard fishing boats was a grueling one that many crewmates depended on.

Unpleasant vices to overcome shirators turned into games of chance. The rush he had upon learning that a big win could change his family's life forever was too much and he squandered every Yin he earned until he soon borrowed money to pay off gambling debts and then resorted to petty crime to pay off. pay. Recover the money he had borrowed even with the best of intentions Shiratoria's situation turned to desperation In 1933, at the age of 25, Shiratori and an accomplice entered a general merchandise store in Awamori City but were not there to do light shopping oh no, they were there to rob the place, however a concerned shopper named Takeso intervened, defended the store and chased them down the street, only there was a fight between the three men where Takiso was seriously injured and lost life in a devastating way.

To what extent was Shiratori involved? We can However, we are not sure that we know that both Shiratori and his accomplice fled and went into hiding two years later, the El Mori police finally located the accomplice of the territories who immediately betrayed Shiratori's whereabouts after learning this . Shiratori had two options: he could run and pray. the law or his conscience never rose up with him or he could be the bigger man and turn himself in. He chose the latter and placed his fate in the hands of the law. Big mistake after going to the police he realized that they were less interested in the case. truth and more interested in getting someone to pay for keso's untimely demise and it seemed like shiritori was their number one target despite some intense physical interrogation tactics by the police, however shiratori didn't tell them anything more than that in itself was enough to find him guilty and in In 1936 he was sent to Almori prison if life outside Maury was difficult, certainly conservative life and he said it was even harder.

His violent reputation had led the guards to give him additional special punishments, and I don't mean that the Wet Willies shiratori was treated worse than anyone else. another inmate and after enduring this for some time he was locked up in solitary confinement, where he spent

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long months completely alone, well not entirely alone, his guards actually stopped by to mistreat him day after day, the violent treatment continued in the early on the morning of June 18, 1936 the telephone at the police chief's house rang unexpectedly hello he says sir we have a problem that requires your urgent attention continue sir some of the viewers have not pressed the like and subscribe buttons hey what do you think We'll say do it right away, don't you know that's the only way to stay up to date with all my amazing content.

Come on, you don't want to listen to the chief of police now, let's go back to the video, okay, that was a joke, but there was a phone call to the chief of police that morning, it was from the guard on duty at 5:30 a.m. m., he noticed that something seemed strange in Shuritori's bed and called to check on him, there was no answer, so he called again even louder. Without a response and in a fit of rage, the guard had entered ready to teach the disrespectful prisoner a lesson, only when he removed the blanket did he realize that the bed was full of pillows.

Shira Tori had left upon hearing this, the police chief immediately ordered a search party. sit down and look for the abandoned prisoner and hours later they returned empty handed, how had this happened? Shiratori had been held in solitary confinement day and night, it seems impossible, he could have

escaped

undetected, but somehow he had, wow, what a head-scratcher. So what's good is to remember that Shiratori had been spending almost every second of every day alone instead of wasting that time. He had silently studied the guards and had discovered that after passing a cell it took them about 15 minutes to turn this around. window of opportunity, the next problem was the huge iron door he was locked behind, however, shuritori also had a solution for that when he took a bath, he was given a bucket with a metal wire handle to wash himself in and he removed secretly this handle so we could use it.

It was like an improvised lockpick. Look, right under the lock of his cell door there was a small window that the guards used to pass him food by sticking their hand through this window. Shuritori could reach the lock and try to force it. He must have taken months of persistence. trial and error, but he finally made sure Tori broke it once he was done, picked the lock, made his bed to look like he was still sleeping, and waited for the guard to pass. Well, now he had 15 minutes to run out and open another lock at the end. out of the corridor and escape, luckily, to make sure Tori didn't have to try to pick this one blindly, so surprisingly that she managed it not bad for the first time, huh, as the days went by word spread around Amore about a vicious criminal who had

escaped

isolation and was now stalking the streets looking for his next victim.

In reality, Shuritori had run into the mountains and lived off all the berries he could get, but after three days he had to return to the city in search of supplies like an escaped swindler. He couldn't just walk into a store and buy them. He had no money and, besides, someone might recognize him. Instead, he resorted to pre-prison robbery tactics, but was caught red-handed trying to steal supplies from a hospital. I'm sure Tory begged. for forgiveness saying that he would only escape because of how brutally the guards had treated him, but no one cared, they sent him back to El Mori prison only this time with a life sentence, with this new sentence, Shiratory was transferred from Malmori to Miyagi. prison where he spent three years before moving back to Kasugai in Tokyo, man I bet he tried to escape again a hundred times, right, not really, he kept his head down and did what he was asked, this is because Shiratori in He actually had a good relationship with the guards, especially the head guard, Ryumaya Kobayashi, who saw Shiratori as a model prisoner as the years went by.

My life in Kasuga was as good as prison can be; However, in 1941, Japan was drawn into World War II and prisoners were evacuated from Tokyo. He moved once again, this time to Akita Prison and here things really got worse in Akita. Years of good behavior didn't mean that the stocky shiratori's reputation as a vicious man outside and a disappearing criminal inside had followed him and the guards in Akita didn't take kindly to being placed in a special cell designed specifically for escape artists, the The ceiling was too high to reach and the walls were too smooth to climb; aside from a small skylight in the roof, there was virtually no sunlight. even a window to pass his food, on top of that Akita was very cold, the guards forced Shiratori to remain in saiza in a kneeling position all day, if they caught him disobeying orders, they would teach him a painful lesson despite his terrible situation, although Shiratori remained surprisingly resolute, taunting the guards who threatened to escape while on duty so that they would be punished in response.

They became even more brutal while Shuritori was planning his next escape and this one would be much more ambitious than the first one on June morning. 15 1942 was wet from a heavy storm the night before the guards began their usual rounds knocking on cell doors to wake up the prisoners, but when they knocked on Shiratori's door there was no response, most likely their mutual hatred. It had already reached its peak, so it was no surprise that the guard prepared to administer Shiratori's first lesson of the day, except that when he opened the door, the room was empty.

Against all odds, Shuritori had escaped from a south specially designed to keep him inside and only he knew how the guards immediately contacted the district police, who established a cordon around the area to catch the prisoner last time, sure that Tory had appeared. after just a couple of days with enough patience to mess up again or so they thought the days passed with no sign of shiratory, the days turned into weeks and weeks. months passed, it wasn't until three months after his escape that an unlikely associate heard him knock on the door in the dead of night when Ryoma Yakobayashi opened the door to find a thin, frail man shivering from the cold, it was shiratori that Kobayashi had He heard of Shiratori's escape, but would never have dreamed that he would appear at his house, he invited him in, fed him and gave him tea.

Now you're probably wondering why an escaped prisoner would visit his former guardian instead of I can't write. He sent her a letter, but Kobayash, she had been kind to Shiratory and he had nowhere to go. The trip from Akita to Kobayashi's home in Tokyo is an astonishing distance of 339 miles. Tori explained that he had walked all the way under the cover of the Darkness to avoid it. recaptured by eating everything he could collect or stealing once he had arrived in Tokyo he would ask anyone who would listen if they knew where Kobayashi lived eventually he got lucky Kobayashi was stunned he knew shuritori was honest but he also knew he couldn't stay here together They agreed that Shiratori would turn himself in at the Kosuke police station and give evidence of his poor treatment in Aikido, hopefully they would take pity on him and he would get a fairer trial than before, so that's what he did, but things didn't. go exactly according to plan Sheratore told the judge about the brutal punishments he had suffered in Akita, the isolation, the kneeling, the violence, but the judge only cared about one thing, how he escaped from the cell, surely on the side of Tory seemed like confessing was the only thing.

One way to help his case now is that Shiratory had two unique abilities that most people don't have: First, he could dislocate almost every joint in his body, which made him really good at getting through tight spaces, if a space was big enough for his head to move. the rest of his body and the small skylight in his cell was big enough to hold onto, although wasn't the skylight really high up? There's no way Shiratory could have reached out to squeeze his body, that's where his second ability comes from. He was outrageously strong, much stronger than the average human, apart from me of course, I'm in a yoke anyway.

Remember I said that the walls of a cell were deliberately smooth, so you couldn't scale them vertically while the cell was so small that sure Tori. He could press his palms against one wall and his feet against the opposite wall and move horizontally. Now the only problem was removing the skylight. Fortunately, Mother Nature had given him a head start. The wooden frame that held it in place was old and rotted with enough pressure. Shiratori could force it open slightly and after the night he would scale the wall to push the skylight a little further, eventually loosening up enough that he could push his entire head in and know that his body could follow his lead.

All that was left to do was wait out a bad storm so the guards wouldn't hear him running across the roof and make a getaway, damn that's impressive, everyone in the courtroom was baffled, everyone except the judge, he added three years to Shiratori's life sentence and sent him back. To jail wait, how does he add up to a sentencelife sentence? Well the life sentence doesn't necessarily mean the rest of your life, it's final but most have a clause called parole where the prisoner defends his release by showing evidence that he has changed if shiratori was paroled he would still have to serve three years after his life sentence was lifted.

Understand great, hopefully you'll never need that information again. Shiratore was prepared to go back to prison after all, he was still a criminal, just the cold Akita. had gotten to him so he asked the judge if he could serve his sentence in Tokyo where it was hotter, the judge laughed and instead sent Shiratory to Abashiri in the far north of Japan and if he thought Akita sounded bad , you haven't seen anything, Abashiri. It was so numbingly cold that your breath froze against your eyebrows. Now Shiratori, 35, was thrown into a bitter cell and nothing but thin summer clothes.

His new guards were taking no chances this time, handcuffing both her hands and feet and forbidding her to work outside of his cell. Like the other prisoners because he didn't work, Tori was probably only given half the amount of food his fellow prisoners ate, which was basic at best. Japanese prison food consisted mainly of a bowl of rice and some salty miso soup. Still, he would prefer British food. Shiratori's only connection to the outside world was a small surveillance window in his cell door. Shuritori ignored any instructions or demands the guards made of him. Once a model prisoner, he now lay tied in his cell. cell completely unconscious one morning a passerby The guard saw Shiratory kneeling face down with the handcuffs removed from his wrist and placed in front of him, they charged and searched his cell and found a piece of metal wire wrapped in paraffin paper.

He now he took hold of this. Nobody knew more than one thing. It was clear Shiratoreles was sending a message that he could escape no matter what they did to him, the guards were shocked, it was up to them to send a message back and boy oh boy did they do it. Shiratori's handcuffs were replaced with new, heavier ones, the new handcuffs were heavy. She weighed 40 pounds and was attached behind her back with a thick metal bulb that took two men to tighten; In other words, there was no keyhole for him to wash or bathe in, it became impossible as removing the handcuffs meant filing the metal.

All he could do was sit. There, as the weeks and months went by, the handcuffs rubbed his wrists and ankles and became infested with maggots, that's disgusting, I'm going to throw up, since at mealtime his food portions were reduced to half again, now the shuritories rations were a measly quarter of what his fellow prisoners ate and because of the heavy handcuffs he had to eat face down in his bowl of soup like a pig. Shiratori was in such a desperate situation that some guards even felt bad for him, but their job was to prevent him from escaping and that's exactly what they had done, more or less so they thought, while during the night patrol on August 26, 1944. , two guards heard a crash above them.

When they looked up, they saw a dirty figure disappear through a broken skylight. Panic set in as they rushed to check what prisoner there was. Everyone escaped except Shiratori. When they looked through the window of his cell, they saw that his bed was made, his clothes were folded on top, and the special handcuffs were lying on the floor. A search party immediately set out to look for him, but after a few fruitless hours. They abandoned their cruel efforts to restrain him. They had failed. Shiratori had disappeared again, only this time it didn't take them long to discover how the thick metal bolt that held the cuffs together had corroded horribly over the years.

This will happen to most medals, but the bolt was showing decades of wear after a few months and had this strange residue on the surface. A guard tried it quite bravely and realized it was salty. That same salty residue was found on the light bulbs holding up the shirators' surveillance window. They are also sold together. Hmm, it's over. You detectives, what do you think is good? The answer is locked in an excellent day. Remember I said that prison food was mainly rice and salty miso soup. Well, any other prisoner would swallow the hot soup to relieve the deadly cold.

Sharatori thought otherwise, it would save a small amount of soup every day to drip onto the handcuffs and the bolts of the surveillance window frame to understand why we're going to have to do a little science, basically, when the Water touches the metal, it creates something called an oxidation reaction where the metal is lost. electrons to the oxygen present in the water, this causes the metal to corrode and rust, with me so far it is cold, now salt is an electrolyte, which means that when mixed with water like in a soup, the resulting solution leads electrons much faster than normal water, so the oxidation reaction occurs faster. and metal also corrodes faster in other words, the salty soup was perfect for wearing down the metal bolts and facilitating Tori ja's safe escape, but wait now, the devil would know this.

I'm not sure, but he was a fisherman in the salt water of the sea. Big metal ocean ships Eggnabbit, it's a genius after months of dripping soup on the ships they finally corroded and came loose. The locks on the doors opened first, but I'm sure Tori left them inside so the guards wouldn't notice, about a month before she escaped, the big lock. on the Cuffs also broke free after breaking free from the shackles and loosening from the joints through the surveillance window. Shiratori ran up the wall and shot across the horizon. The boom went crazy and that's not all.

Shiratory had planned to escape from the night before the 25th, but the patrol guards that night had been kind to him; if he had escaped while they were on duty, they would have gotten in trouble for that, so Tori held on for another day, still risking more so that his plan was thwarted by the guards now. That's a real brother, after Escape Shiratori went completely offline, he had already lost all faith in the justice system and returning to society would be too big a risk, so he spent almost two years living completely alone in the mountains, it's difficult.

He didn't want to know if he saw anyone else during this time, however, even with all his experience in solitary confinement, living so disconnected took its toll on him one night in 1946, Shiritori traveled to a nearby town, sneaked into the school, and found a newspaper as dawn broke. He was shocked to read that two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japanese cities. Shiratori didn't even know that Japan had lost the war, perhaps seeing life return to normal even after such a tragedy gave Shiritori hope that his life could also do the same, whatever it was. He knew that he could not continue living alone in the mountains, so he decided to head towards the nearby city of Sapporo and determine his next steps, unfortunately things did not work out.

To plan along the way, he stumbled upon an orchard, whether he tried to steal it or not, we will never know, but the owner of the garden mistook shatori for a local thief who had been plundering his fields. He chased his Tori and attacked him as sure Tory tried to defend himself The Gardener suffered a fatal wound and bled to death oh Rats the commotion alerted the local police and Shiratory was quickly arrested again his pleas for self-defense were futile his extensive history of murder, robbery and well Prison Break said otherwise shiratori was sent to Sapporo prison and sentenced to death ah wow there go my hopes for a happy ending, wait didn't I say escape from prison four times?

I only count three so far, surely slippery shuritori can escape death, although of course, just wait and see, see Sapporo Prison. He tried to act smart, they acquired his previous escape records and reinforced the Shiratoria cell accordingly, a pair of armed guards kept a constant watch outside and every day, to make sure that Tori and his cell were searched for any evidence. from an escape attempt, they never found anything, in fact, Tori was on his best behavior, he did everything the guards asked of him, they were so sure he would never escape that they didn't even bother to handcuff him.

The only suspicion he had was that he kept looking up as if he was looking for a way out knowing the previous antics of him in Skylight. The guards knew not to take this lightly, so once a week, when Shiratori was bathing, they thoroughly inspected the ceiling and found nothing. However, on April 1, 1947, Shiratori disappeared for the fourth and final time despite the best efforts of Sapporo guards. Shiratori had been more cunning. They were fine, so what the hell happened this time? Well, those glances he shot at the ceiling were to divert his attention from where the action was really happening right under his feet.

Upon inspecting Shiratori's empty cell, a guard found one of the floorboards under his bed. The bed was cut in half. Below that was a small alcove and inside was a metal ring that had once been wrapped around the toilet. from the cell, it now turned out that he was turned into a saw and was lying next to a bowl of soup left over from one of Shiratori's meals. Shuritori had used an old nail to make jagged teeth in the hoop for months, had been secretly sawing through the floorboard, squeezing through the Gap and using his old, trusty friend, the soup bowl, to exhaustingly digging his way to the Freedom he had never even had. to remove the handcuffs to do it the guards overconfidence had ensured that the damned search team left once again and returned empty handed this was the final escape and perhaps the most ingenious of shuritori once again fled to the mountains and was lost around the world Nine months later, on January 19, 1948, a police officer patrolling Katani Cho near Sapporo saw a strange-looking man carrying a large bundle feeling that he was up to something.

Shady the officer asked him his name and the man responded. Kimura the officer then asked him if he could look inside his bag. Kamura happily obliged, inside were pots, teapots and bowls, nothing unpleasant as the policeman had expected, he was ready to let Kimura go when the man asked him in a low voice. : Excuse me, sir. Could you please give me a cigarette? And in the postwar years, cigarettes were a generous expense. but the officer took pity on Kimura and gave him what he asked for. Kumor smoked it for a while before whispering, Thank you sir, honestly, my name is not Kimura, I'm Yoshi Shiratori.

I am an escaped convict who escaped from Sapporo Prison last year. Shiratori's life had changed. He had been so unkind that just being given a cigarette broke him. He followed the policeman to the Sporo police station where he waited for his next appearance, except this time, when he arrived at court, something was different: the judge recognized the accident in the garden outside. Sapporo acted in self-defense without any bad intentions and overturned the death penalty. Furthermore, the judge acknowledged that despite years of mistreatment by the prison service, Shiratori had never attempted to harm any of the guards and it was not as if he couldn't.

In fact, apart from the original crime in Almori, he had never actively tried to hurt anyone, the judge gave him a revised sentence of 20 years in prison and granted his request to serve his sentence in Fuchu Prison in Tokyo, as he wished the arrival of the curator to Fuchup. With the guards nervous, but they tried to go easy on him, they gave him a job tending the prison grounds and allowed him to participate in prison sports and athletics. Even though he was over 40 years old, he would now easily fight at half his age. One afternoon, while Shatori was resting on prison rounds, the prison warden yelled at him: Hey, Shiratory, that wall is only 6.5 feet high.

Someone with your skills could climb so easily. Why don't you have territory? He looked at the man, smiled and said, "I'm tired after escaping from prison four times in 11 years and spending three years on the run. I'd had enough. It was a young man's game. I was still strong, yes, but not as strong." strong as before. Furthermore, he simply lacked the motivation to escape again. Shiritori had not escaped so many times because of the prison itself, it was for his own protection against the violent prison guards, but in Fuchu he finally felt safe, the director smiled back and decided at that moment to request Tori's parole.

It took 10 years to clean it up, but.Finally, on December 21, 1961, Shiratori left prison for the last time, not through a skylight tunnel, but through the main gate as a free man. After his release, he spent his last years in Tokyo working as a laborer, but even for our thug Houdini there is a phrase that none of us can escape from. In 1979 at the age of 71 Shiritori passed away and his ashes were buried in a cemetery. with a view of Mount Fuji, hey, what a life. I'm not saying he hasn't done bad things, definitely. Have you ever seen how one bad move can lead to a million others?

It's a slippery slope out there. Criminals are also complicated people. Whether or not your life has taken you down that path doesn't necessarily make you a good or bad person. Take me as long as the IRS doesn't find out my true identity, my little honey will never come close to jail. That's enough of my soft, sultry voice for one video. Be sure to leave a comment below because I would love to. to hear your opinion on Sharatori's story share a story, damn, why did it take me so long to think of that anyway? Thanks for looking, thanks.