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South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals
Corey Brook writes "The South Carolina state prison system wants the FCC to grant them and local officers permission to block cell phone signals. News has been out about the growing problem of them perps smuggling cell phones into prisons for a while now. Inmates use cell phones as commerce, to implement fraud, smuggle drugs and weapons, and to order hits. Of course, some may use it to just talk to a loved one any time they can." Hopefully movie theaters and restaurants do it next.
I must resist mentioning how in Soviet Russia, mobile phones jam you!
In my local cinema recently, people were quite good with keeping phones on silent, but the light from people checking and sending text messages still annoyed me a bit.
I just realized what they mean by smuggling them in. I'm guessing I wouldn't want one of those phones close to my mouth/nose.
"I don't have to think. I only have to do it. The results are always perfect, but that's old news." - Meat Puppets
After all, they already jammed the phone up someone's asshole to get it into prison.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Like they're really going to refurb that super-max prison as condos for the elderly.
Everybody in the whole cell block
They was jammed' up 'cause the cellphones blocked
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Imagine having nothing to do for 24 hours a day other than think of ways to smuggle shit past the guards.
Smuggling shit is notoriously easy. Everyone of us does it every day. Smuggling other stuff, like cellphones or weapons, is somewhat harder, and requires a modicum of thought.
Haven't you heard? Everyone in prison is innocent!
On second thought, let's not go to the internet. 'Tis a silly place.
One story mentioned a phone that was only found by an abdominal X-ray.
Well that's one way to jam a cell phone.
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I'd say don't bother with blocking cell phones, let the inmates have as many as they want.
Just make it a death penalty to be caught in possession of a charger.
I'm a satanic clam.
take the words "cell phone" to literally?
advocate torture, gladiatorial contests and being thrown to the lions as acceptable punishments
Give it time. The Romans didn't think of these things on day 1 either.
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
I'm a free man and I haven't had a conjugal visit in 6 months.