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."

Comments

bummer

[monkeyzoo]

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.

Really?

[amiga3D]

Hacksaw blades? For crying out loud, what century is this again?

Re:Really?

[bobthesungeek76036]

it was in Oklahoma...

Re:Really?

[twitnutttt]

A Slashdot maker challenge... Who can create the most inventive device with the following items?
- drugs
- a cell phone
- hacksaw blades
- cigarettes
- glue

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously! A flyback transformer and graphite mechanical pencil leads would have been much more appropriate tool for the hardened steel used in prison bars. They give the fuckers 120 VAC and water, it doesn't take a physicist or chemist to turn that in to an escape plan in an oxygen rich environment...

Re:Really?

[AK Marc]

Too short a list of materials. Combine that with the things allowed in prison, like paper, and you can get some more interesting things. Enough glue and paper and you can use it like paper mache, but much stronger.

Re:Really?

[BarbaraHudson]

You don't need the flyback transformer - just the graphite rods from pencils, an extension cord, a styrofoam cup of salt water, three popsicle sticks, some tape (optional) and paper clips (optional) and you can make an electric arc.

Cut one side of the two-wire extension cord in half and expose the wires.
Tape (or use bits of wire or paperclips) to attach the bare ends to the popsicle sticks.
Put the popsicle sticks in the cup so that the wires are immersed but not touching. You can use paper clips to hold the sticks in place.
Cut the end of the extension cord that you don't plug into the wall off.
take the now headless end of the extension cord and separate it in two.
Expose an inch or two of bare wire on both leads.
attach one end to the metal object of interest.
take the last popsicle stick and wire the graphite rod to it with the other wire lead and optionally another paperclip.
plug into wall outlet.
using the popsicle stick as a handle, touch and slightly pull back the graphite rod from the metal object, completing the circuit
enjoy your new arc torch.

The salt water acts as a resistor on one side of the circuit, preventing a short circuit when you touch the metal with the graphite.

Of course, better results are obtained using carbon rods from new zinc-carbon batteries and higher voltages.

Re:Really?

[MikeMo]

My prison-guard wife says this is 100% not true, that you don't want to end your shift with someone hanging themselves in one of your cells.

Re:Really?

[Sir Holo]

Hacksaw blades make fantastic bases for shivs. But they are also very useful for making other things

Yes, like making a rake for lock-picking,

or jamming a lock,

or jamming a door-jamb, such that it cannot open.

Ah, memories. Such good times were had.

Re:Really?

[BarbaraHudson]

Nonsense. The first time I built one of these was when I was 11. I had already figured out that you needed a resistance in the circuit, due to other experiments.

I had figured that all I needed to cook hotdogs was an extension cord, two long nails, and a piece of wood. I banged the nails through the wood, cut off the end of the cord, wired the two wires to the nails, put a hotdog across it, and plugged it in. Sure enough, the hotdog cooked due to its' own internal resistance. Showed it off to everyone and cooked a bunch of hotdogs with it - no microwave, no pot of boiling water - no problemo!

The problem came when I tried to cook bacon the next morning - it sagged too much and wouldn't stay in contact with the nails. So I used a can opener to remove the top of a 48-oz apple juice can and put it across the two "terminals, " and put the bacon on it. Plugged it in and knocked out the power for 12 families for half a day.

I had also been fooling around with direct-current transformers to collect hydrogen using electricity in a salt bath (pure water wouldn't conduct electricity at the low voltages I was using). So, when I decided to see if I could make an electrical arc, it was natural to incorporate the salt bath into one side of the circuit to make sure that there would always be sufficient resistance in the circuit to prevent blowing the power again. Like the hotdog cooker, it worked first time.

On another note, I also figured that if I took a piece of aluminium foil and cut a notch in it, it would act like a fuse when put across the hotdog coorer's nails, causing the aluminium to burn - it was very sudden, very pretty, and we spent some time "blowing up" aluminium strips. It was all perfectly safe, provided you didn't do something stupid like touch bare contacts.

Always An Idiot...

[zenlessyank]

To fuck it up for everyone else. Sorry guys, guess it's back to Estes rockets again...

Re:Always An Idiot...

[riverat1]

How about a slingshot?

Obvious solution

[tomhath]

Give all the inmates shotguns so they can shoot those pesky drones down.

jobs

[deodiaus2]

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.

Re:Alternate headline: expert drone operator manag

[93 Escort Wagon]

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.

LOL

[Type44Q]

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

Distraction

[waynemcdougall]

Meanwhile, on the other sides of the prison, the drones with the C4, etc, all successfully arrived.

Re:Alternate headline: expert drone operator manag

[tsotha]

That's what I was thinking. Maybe the first unsuccessful attempt.

Is it ironic

[watermark]

Is it ironic that Slashdot is advertising drones for sale?