00:00They painted the jail cell pink.
00:02And not just any pink.
00:03A scientist mixes exactly one pint of red into a gallon of white and makes the guards
00:07repaint the whole thing because the first coat was the wrong shade.
00:11The guards are thrilled.
00:12Barbie's gonna love it in here.
00:14Then, he gives them one strange rule.
00:16Every prisoner who goes in comes out after exactly 15 minutes, and he waits at the door
00:21with a stopwatch.
00:22So the first guy they throw in is the biggest inmate in the building.
00:25300 pounds of tattoos, laughing at the walls.
00:28But, when they pull him out 15 minutes later, the scientist asks the skinniest guard there
00:32to arm wrestle him, and the guard slams his hand down in two seconds.
00:36Wait, what?
00:36Well, nobody can explain it.
00:38But within a year, jails all over the country are painting their cells by the truckload.
00:42Until one night, a guard forgets about the guy in the pink cell.
00:45At 15 minutes, he's sitting quietly.
00:47At 20, he's pacing.
00:49And by the time they open the door, he's trying to rip the bench out of the floor.
00:52You see, the scientists swore this pink drained the fight out of anyone in 15 minutes.
00:57So jails used it to calm their most violent prisoners, but it only works for 15 minutes.
01:02Leave someone in any longer, and it does the exact opposite.
01:05That's it.
