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Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons
HughPickens.com writes: BBC reports that Budi Waseso, the head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts and says crocodiles make better guards than humans — because they cannot be bribed. "We will place as many crocodiles as we can there," says Waseso. "You can't bribe crocodiles. You can't convince them to let inmates escape." Waseso says only traffickers would be kept in the jail, to stop them from mixing with other prisoners and potentially recruiting them to drug gangs. The plan, reminiscent of James Bond's "Live and Let Die" movie escape, is still in the early stages, and neither the location or potential opening date of the jail have been decided. Anti-drugs agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi confirmed authorities were mulling the plan to build "a special prison for death row convicts" Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Despite the harsh laws, Indonesia's corrupt prison system is awash with drugs, and inmates and jail officials are regularly arrested for narcotics offences.
ask every australian.
Just throw them a piece of meat like they do in cartoons.
... it's all a matter of procuring a few tons of meat. Just make sure that all of the crocodiles are fed before entering the crocodile-infested area.
This won't work. The crocs could actually be your way out. If you're really good, you won't even get your trousers wet :).
Oh no... it's the future.
And man eating sharks, and giant chickens and...
In Florida they would be more likely to use prisoners to guard crocodiles.
One thing's for sure. I'll never traffick drugs in Indonesia.
What? No laser sharks?
Useless. You'd have to build a good wall inside the mote to prevent them "accidentally" throwing each other into it. Then again, they were death row convicts, weren't they?
He's obviously never heard of "quis custodiet ipsos custodes". And who will guard the crocodiles? Should be fairly easy to bribe the guy who feeds them/cares for them so that he can help arrange your "escape". Crocs aren't all that aggressive when fed. And you have to feed them otherwise you'll end up with one fat croc.
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Only the deligators and litigators navigator that irrigator. I suppose I'll just program an escape in Jaw-va and give it as many bytes as I can: I'm sure it'll really fight tooth and scale.
Please don't kill me.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
... Komodo dragons.
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to protect us us 'ordinary citizens'? exponential phewww
How long before Texas uses 'gators to guard the prisons?
I feel like these guys could probably get Uber to pick them up for $50
Is this stuff that matters to geeks? Us geeks, we generally are better off with a clear head. Or are we still reminiscing the alleged positive effects of LSD on UNIX? Don't think Ken and Dennis did drugs.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
They really shouldn't have hired an ex-Bond villain for the position.
I say we replace the Indonesian governement with Lizards on the same grounds.
I have had the concept of a high speed hospice for quite some time. the family or attendant pulls up to what looks like a huge mail slot in a wall and the ill person is dropped through the slot onto a slide which slides them into a pit full of gators. That will cure what ails them. but we could do the same thing with prisoners. immediately after sentencing we could put them on a slide from the courtroom to the pit. As far as appeals go I am sure the gators below will find the convict appealing. We do need to come up with hand cuffs and the like that the gators can easily digest. By doing this we can convert convicts into lovely luggage and shoes and maybe use the gator hides to make sofas and the like. And we can get rid of drunk drivers once and for all.
Oh well, at least they did give of coffee that is the most expensive in the world and comes from the fecal matter of a civet cat. I guess I should not be surprised by this idea.
Crocnado!!
Zombie Crocodiles!
Mega Croc vs Mecha Croc!
Mega Croc vs Godzilla!
Super Croc!
Attack of the Jurassic Croc!
Two Headed Croc Attack!
I for one welcome our new Crocodile Prison Guard overlords.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
In unrelated news, Indonesia prisons start generating revenue by selling handmade crocodile skin boots, belts and underwear...
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
If you're going to go all absurd at least be creative. Komodo dragons are much scarier than crocs.
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You know, I have one simple request.
Sharks with frickin lasers attached to their heads. Now evidently you guys informs me that that cannot be done...
Sigh...
Ok, let's go for your boring alligators then.
[pedant] The term you are looking for is "moot". [/pedant]
Only on \. can you refer to a drug enforcement branch as an anti-drug branch.
You have to be high if you're into GoT and rebuilding the kernel for everything.
at least they won't have to worry about anyone attacking the guards with a peach.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
they may get a little hungry. Sounds worse than what it actually is.
Have the considered what might happen if the inmates get the crocodiles addicted to hard drugs and ride them back into society?