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> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs. Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Pris
by Shish2k 13y ago
> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs.
Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Prisoner with car keys: not suspicious?
- protothomas 13y agoI suspect it would be to do with spotting visitors bringing in illicit mobile phones not prisoners.
- reubensutton 13y agoPerson taking car keys into the visiting room: not suspicious.
- onetimeonly 13y agoYou get stripped of all metal when you enter visiting rooms in UK prisons.
- nicholassmith 13y agoBoth are suspicious circumstances, but this is more to target people taking phones into prisons concealed as something else.
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoPrisoner with car keys: not useful. Prisoner with a phone: useful.
- alan_cx 13y agoYou can stab people with keys. I have a VW flick key. Sharpen it up, and its a great little weapon.
- onetimeonly 13y agoYou can stab people with almost anything. Toothbrush, piece of paper carefully folded, shoelaces melted into a soap mould... stopping one more thing getting in won't matter. I think the idea was to make it easier to notice them, as parent suggested.
- marcosdumay 13y agoIt is not hard to notice an RF transmitter. If the police thinks their size matters in any way, they completely missed the point.
- ImprovedSilence 13y agoso we should just give them knives since they will just find a way around not having one anyway?