Web goes wild for Philippine jailhouse rock

It began as a fitness routine for old lags, but inmates in the Philippines have turned it into a worldwide phenomenon: hundreds of prisoners in serried ranks – decked out in orange jail-issue clothing – are the latest stars of the internet. More than 1.3 million viewers have downloaded the prisoners’ performance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, one of nine clips posted on the YouTube video-sharing website.

It began as a fitness routine for old lags, but inmates in the Philippines have turned it into a worldwide phenomenon: hundreds of prisoners in serried ranks – decked out in orange jail-issue clothing – are the latest stars of the internet. More than 1.3 million viewers have downloaded the prisoners’ performance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, one of nine clips posted on the YouTube video-sharing website.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2136595,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2155513.ece

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