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He ESCAPED Prison Using Ketchup 🤯🍅 transcript
onca · @onca_yt
Published September 10, 20260:4414.8M views
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184
Runtime
0:44
Speaking pace
251wpm
Reading time
1min
251 words per minute, above the 201 75th percentile of 349 measured videos. That distribution comes from the 349-video hook study.
Opening (first 30 seconds)
This guy broke out of prison using [music] ketchup. For months, he saved every little sauce packet that came with his meals and hid them in his cell. Then, when nobody was watching, he mixed the ketchup with other ingredients and secretly spread it across the metal bars of his cell. You see, ketchup is full of vinegar and acid, which slowly eats through metal. Every morning, he wiped the bars clean before the guards walked past, doing it again and again every single night. The guards walked past that cell every single day [music] and never saw a thing, but underneath, the metal was slowly rotting away. 11 months later, the bars were so [music] weak he could bend them with his bare hands. So,
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Sentence shape
| Measure | This transcript |
|---|---|
| Sentences | 12 |
| Average words per sentence | 15.3 |
| Longest sentence | 23 words |
| Questions asked | 0 |
| Sentences containing a number | 1 |
Most used terms
- music5
- ketchup4
- bars3
- cell3
- guards3
- metal3
- guards walked2
- hid2
- months2
- past2
- prison2
- single2
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Transcript
This guy broke out of prison using [music] ketchup. For months, he saved every little sauce packet that came with his meals and hid them in his cell. Then, when nobody was watching, he mixed the ketchup with other ingredients and secretly spread it across the metal bars of his cell. You see, ketchup is full of vinegar and acid, which slowly eats through metal. Every morning, he wiped the bars clean before the guards walked past, doing it again and again every single night.
The guards walked past that cell every single day [music] and never saw a thing, but underneath, the metal was slowly rotting away. 11 months later, the bars were so [music] weak he could bend them with his bare hands. So, he waited until the guards were distracted, bent them apart, and squeezed through the gap. Then, he hid inside [music] a supply truck and finally rode straight out of the gates. But, a few days later, they found him hiding in a dumpster.
And after that, they stopped giving out ketchup in the prison. >> [music and singing]
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