South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals 601
Corey Brook writes "The South Carolina state prison system wants the FCC to grant them and local officers permission to block cell phone signals. News has been out about the growing problem of them perps smuggling cell phones into prisons for a while now. Inmates use cell phones as commerce, to implement fraud, smuggle drugs and weapons, and to order hits. Of course, some may use it to just talk to a loved one any time they can." Hopefully movie theaters and restaurants do it next.
Mobile phones (Score:4, Funny)
I must resist mentioning how in Soviet Russia, mobile phones jam you!
In my local cinema recently, people were quite good with keeping phones on silent, but the light from people checking and sending text messages still annoyed me a bit.
smuggling (Score:5, Funny)
I just realized what they mean by smuggling them in. I'm guessing I wouldn't want one of those phones close to my mouth/nose.
why not? (Score:2, Funny)
After all, they already jammed the phone up someone's asshole to get it into prison.
Oh yea. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:smuggling (Score:5, Funny)
Re:smuggling (Score:5, Funny)
I just realized what they mean by smuggling them in. I'm guessing I wouldn't want one of those phones close to my mouth/nose.
Because you're allergic to the cake frosting? </naive>
Jail house blocked (Score:4, Funny)
Everybody in the whole cell block
They was jammed' up 'cause the cellphones blocked
Re:smuggling (Score:5, Funny)
Even if I never go to prison, I can always just keep it on vibrate and still get some use out of it.
Re:Mobile phones (Score:5, Funny)
But if you ban cell phones in prison, only criminals will have cell phones in prison!
Re:smuggling (Score:1, Funny)
How funny would it be when your ass started ringing with "Milkshake" or "Baby Got Back" as your ringtone. I bet you'd make a lot of, erm, friends quick.
Re:smuggling (Score:2, Funny)
Insert LG Chocolate jokes here.
Re:One obvious question... (Score:3, Funny)
Smuggling shit is notoriously easy. Everyone of us does it every day. Smuggling other stuff, like cellphones or weapons, is somewhat harder, and requires a modicum of thought.
Re:Waaaaaa!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Big problem on Texas Death Row (Score:4, Funny)
One story mentioned a phone that was only found by an abdominal X-ray.
Well that's one way to jam a cell phone.
Re:fp (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say don't bother with blocking cell phones, let the inmates have as many as they want.
Just make it a death penalty to be caught in possession of a charger.
it is that inmates may (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mobile phones (Score:5, Funny)
How many people are going to sit there yakking while their food goes cold? Not too many.
you need to go to a movie in detroit. you will have at least 3 very loud ethnic women talking away on their cellphone. If not on the phone they are talking to the screen...
"Dont go in there! OH MY! DONT DO IT! LORDY!"
I stopped going to the theater because of it.
Re:Mobile phones (Score:5, Funny)
How many people are going to sit there yakking while their food goes cold? Not too many.
Your pro-eating, anti-yakking bias clearly identifies you as a sexist male.
Re:Mobile phones (Score:5, Funny)
> Food is pretty much up there with sex as far as primal instincts go.
Or in the immortal words of Descartes: "Burrito, ergo nom."
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Re:smuggling (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to get a cell phone implanted in my penis
Then you can use your Dictaphone... :-)
(Sorry - but I had to get rid of that joke - it was getting so far past its tell-by date)
Re:Prison (Score:4, Funny)
advocate torture, gladiatorial contests and being thrown to the lions as acceptable punishments
Give it time. The Romans didn't think of these things on day 1 either.
Re:Mobile phones (Score:5, Funny)
A 15 mW pointer laser in the face of a person waving lights around a darkened theater like that should do the trick. Everyone else will get the message, too, and you have to blind only a minimum of selfish bastards to do it. After a while, society generally will learn the lesson, and the lasers will become merely the stuff of legend.
Re:The whole idea of prison is (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a free man and I haven't had a conjugal visit in 6 months.