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Drone Carrying Drugs, Hacksaw Blades Crashes In Oklahoma Prison (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: A drone carrying drugs, a cell phone, hacksaw blades, cigarettes, glue, and other contraband was discovered crashed in an Oklahoma prison yard on Monday morning. The drone "apparently crashed after hitting razor wire that guarded the facility."
Sounds like an unfortunate accident. Whoever was flying the drone is probably very disappointed their drone crashed and they've lost their Amazon drugs and hacksaw blades.
Hacksaw blades? For crying out loud, what century is this again?
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To fuck it up for everyone else. Sorry guys, guess it's back to Estes rockets again...
Give all the inmates shotguns so they can shoot those pesky drones down.
I mean, really... all that sky and they hit the razor wire?
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Should have been "expert drone operator manages to hit razor wire"
A drone carrying mobile phones, drugs, hacksaw blades and other material dangling in a bundle from a fishing line
I think they got a little carried away with the "razor wire" term...
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The other day, there was a discussion of what sort of jobs are there in the IoTs marketplace. I guess you can put this on your craigslist resume, Well, I downloaded the software to the controls and helped fly and maneuver a helicopter to Bubba so he could get a hacksaw blade & can get out.
This pattern failure has happened before. (And yes, in a prison)
Get something that works - then overload it so it doesn't have the lift to clear the fence.
So I guess it's because a large portion of the Slashdot audience is currently incarcerated?
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It was carrying the contraband on the fishing line, it got tangled up in the prison's razor wire.
Dude, if only you'd persevered and read all the way through paragraph two...
The drone clipped razor wire on prison walls on Monday and lost control before crashing into prison grounds in what the officials said was the first attempt in the state to smuggle material into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
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A drone carrying... glue
No doubt the glue was simply for well-intending prisoners to seal their anuses shut, this being Oklahoma and all...
That's an incredible mix of objects... Is MacGyver in prison?
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in what the officials said was the first attempt in the state to smuggle material into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Yes, this was surely the first ever attempt in the state; it's perfectly within the limits of Okie "logic" to assume this has never been tried before... :p
in what the officials said was the first attempt in the state to smuggle material into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
I seriously doubt it was the first.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Hacksaw blades? For crying out loud, what century is this again?
Its a century without handheld phasers for cursing through steel. :-)
Now we'll have to start all over again.
love that they have the cigs. seems like a small reward compared to the hacksaw blades.
Meanwhile, on the other sides of the prison, the drones with the C4, etc, all successfully arrived.
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Incidents like these serve to remind me the tools are in the criminals hands. Just like software "hacking" and botnets, robotics will no doubt see increasingly sophisticated applications in circumventing security. Maximum security jails are probably going to have to become more and more advanced, equipped with loads more sensors and probably far more enclosed. Weird little machines in the walls of buildings snooping and cutting away like mice infestations don't seem to me like an absurd possibility. At least exterminators are going to have a hi-tech skill tree to diverge into in the future, unlike some occupations.
So ... something flying over the wall and crashing doesn't get seen doing that, but rather "discovered" as having crashed?
That's what I was thinking. Maybe the first unsuccessful attempt.
Is it ironic that Slashdot is advertising drones for sale?
OK. So the game says 15m inside the perimeter of the prison are susceptible to contrabands being thrown in. This changes everything.
Your Karma might be better if you read more before posting.
Soon, we'll see prisons surrounded by barrage balloons (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon .)
While prisons aren't generally located near upscale neighborhoods, still the heightened profile (pun intended) of such counter measures will bring out NIMBY protests.
No it the correct term , razor wire or Barbed tape, and it really nasty shit to work with. the barbs are angled so the dig it at the slightest contact and trying to remove one barb often digs in the opposing barb. Then to take thing from bad to worst any movement, yours or even the wind causes the roll to quiver, which causes the barbs to alternately dig in farther and farther. If you know your going to be on concertina detail you just automatically put on your shankiest uniform and you most trashed out boots, because what ever you wear, it's going to get shredded.
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Now, have you ever flown a drone before.....ON WEED???
Which government agency placed these items on the grounds in order to highlight how scary drones can be?
I got a buddy in prison. I should fly him in a plasma cutter, hydraulic spreaders, a motorcycle, machine gun, and a hooker.