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Drone carrying drugs, hacksaw blades crashes at Oklahoma prison
- TeMPOraL 11y agoUnless I'm missing something important, it takes some special level of incompetence to fail like that. I have 1 hour and 10 minutes of total flight time of a quadcopter under my belt and could probably navigate better than that. Which makes me wonder, given the other apparently trivial failures mentioned in the article, how many more drone drops are successful and go unnoticed?
- elcct 11y agoMaybe that was on purpose. You know, someone pissed off someone, so no deliveries for ya...
- bitJericho 11y agoThe line it clipped could have been invisible on camera
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- giarc 11y agoIt says the stuff was attached by fishing line. I imagine the pilot was trying to keep the drone as low as possible and misjudged the clearance of the fishing line from the top of the fence. Once it was caught, there's nothing you can really do.
- GordonS 11y ago> in what the officials said was the first attempt in the state to smuggle material into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle Eh.. surely it's the first detected attempt?!
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- swiley 11y agoThere have been others, at least one last year. I don't know why they say this is the first.
- nmc 11y agoIn Oklahoma? They clearly say it is the first in the state.
- tel 11y agoTo be fair that's the article quoting "officials" and the article directly mentions other attempts a paragraph later.
- vonklaus 11y agoi rarely watch sports but this strikes me as one of the obscure facts that cross the screen: Oklahoma prison officials 1-0 against known smuggling attempts when they are playing at home versus incompetent criminal pilots.
- jessaustin 11y agoIt's only a matter of time before someone uses a bigger drone to get out.
- bcraven 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...
- kamjam 11y agoI put my money on this guy: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hoverboard-duru-1.3270569 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hoverboard-duru-1.3270569
- jsjohnst 11y agoHave you seen any of the drones able to lift a human? Absolutely no way that's sneaking around undetected unless the prison is uber incompetent.
- richardw 11y agoDoesn't need to be undetected, just fast enough that the escapee doesn't get shot and slow enough that the escapee doesn't die from the G-forces. There's a lot of room between those two extremes. You'd have to install drone guns to protect against the escape drones, but are invulnerable to attacking drone guns. This could get ugly.
- afarrell 11y agoShouldn't this be easy to defeat during the daytime by a guard who has experience shooting clay or ducks?
- jschwartzi 11y agoI know what all the other stuff would be useful for, but does anyone know why it was carrying super-glue? I find it hard to believe an inmate would huff that if they had access to anything else in that package.
- dkbrk 11y agoThis is just speculation on my part, but a glue such as cyanoacrylate would be extremely useful for attaching a handle to an improvised tool or weapon.
- jschwartzi 11y agoI guess it's lighter than duct-tape and concealable too. I know the hacksaw blades would be useless as anything but weapons, so it's probable that there's an inmate who's now stuck with a surplus of handles and no blades. Worse yet, he could also have a bunch of late drug orders.
- polimux 11y agoYou can also sniff glue to get high, cheap drugs. Although it wouldn't have to be "super"-glue.
- IanCal 11y agoIn addition to the variety of suggestions so far: You can mend things with it.
- hamitron 11y agoIn a pinch, you can use it as an alternative to stitches.
- matheweis 11y agoI dunno, but recently when buying some at the local Walmart, an alert went off and they carded me to see if I was over 18. The guy at the checkout didn't know why but he speculated sniffing of some kind.
- oneJob 11y agoPerhaps someone should fork this behavior and start dropping care packages for prisoners. Good chocolate. Textbooks, self help books, poetry and literature. Letters from family members. Comfortable underwear. Assistance for those soon to be released. A kind rebellion against the unblinking barbed wire.
- hellbanner 11y agoIf you do this, please pilot better than the crashes reported in the article.
- giarc 11y agoI think there are legal ways of getting all of these inside the walls of a prison.
- oneJob 11y agoWhich is prob just as fun and pleasant of an experience as delivery by drone.
- tomschlick 11y agoOr you know... don't smuggle stuff into a prison...
- oneJob 11y agoOr don't lock people up away from their community for non violent crimes. So many options!
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoSounds like trade goods. If you're escaping (hacksaw blades) why do you need drugs now (leaving soon)?
- Roodgorf 11y agoI assumed the hacksaw blades were also trade goods to be used for making weapons. I imagine if you were really determined to escape you may need more materials than that.