Hot on YouTube: Prisoners Dancing on Michael Jackson's Thriller

A new YouTube clip attracts an impressive amount of viewers as it shows more than 1,000 prisoners dancing on the Michael Jackson hit, Thriller. It all starts with some interesting zombie moves. It continues with amazing dancing moves made by the prisoners, all of them being dressed in orange prison suites. In the background you can hear: "cause this is thriller, thriller night / And no ones gonna save you from the beast about strike / You know its thriller, thriller night / You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight." The clip recorded approximately 1.5 million views, 2437 comments and was uploaded by Byron Garcia, a superior of the prison.

"I want the prison system to learn from this. The inmates are after all human beings and the inmates after all, once inside, know that they have committed mistakes, let them enjoy their stay," Byron Garcia said for Reuters.

The comments posted on YouTube are describing exactly what the viewers think about the prisoners' dance. "You guys are great! Everbody is talking about you guys in Turkey. Awesome job and I hope more and more videos coming. Thanks a lot!" bybayby wrotes. "This is absolutely creativity of Filipino people particularly the Cebuanos. Hats off to the Jail Management and inmates. More, more, more..." bongsua added.

Since its acquisition by Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion, the online video sharing platform YouTube grew up a lot and became a real video encyclopedia that hosts all kinds of clips. Even the police officers are attracted by YouTube. For example, numerous police officials uploaded surveillance videos on Google product in order to require users' help, identify and arrest the suspects.

And that's not all. A female fighting against leukemia turned to YouTube to find a matching donor for a bone marrow transplant. She finally managed to find one in Denmark who also rescued her life.