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Prisoners Smuggle In Stuff with a Toy Chopper

By Alex in Crime & Law, Gadget, Toy & Video Games on May 26, 2009 at 12:21 pm


Remember the story of how prisoners in Brazil have been smuggling in cell phones using pigeons?

Well, that’s low tech compared to what these other prisoners did:

Four suspects were arrested late on Sunday outside a maximum security facility in the southern town of Presidente Venceslau in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state after the mini-chopper, 14 mobile telephones and the equivalent of 500 dollars in cash were found in their rented car, according to reports in local media.

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Note that this is also in Brazil: what’s up with that? Can’t they smuggle things the good ol’ fashioned way – in their butts – just like all other prisoners do in the rest of the world?


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  1. Marcelo
    May 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Hey Alex,

    As a Brazilian, I can say, they still use the old fashioned way! But have you seen the size of a Nokia N95 or an Iphone? Not mention the charger units! :-)

    Regards,

    Marcelo

  2. R. Baldo
    May 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    I guess we are short on anus.

    That didn't come out as I expected... :-)

  3. Kalel
    May 26th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    How many bars in prison?

  4. Guybrush Threepwood
    May 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Brazilian here too.

    Smuggling the old-fashioned way is not the worst part. The problem is to disguise the tickles when the vibracall is on.

  5. Gauldar
    May 26th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    The problem is that hooping contraband is so cliché, these days surveillance these days have ass cams set up recording 24/7.

  6. Felipe Venancio
    May 26th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    Another Brazilian here.

    I guess it is cheaper to use the chopter. And the police officers are too expensive to bribe.

  7. Kalel
    May 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Ola, Brasilieros! Bom dia!

  8. Oomi
    May 26th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    I liked the pidgeon smuggling better.

  9. Gorf
    May 26th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    @Kalel
    Three pigeons and a mini chopper fly into a prison bar and... (insert some (prison) bar joke here)

  10. seefish3
    May 27th, 2009 at 4:02 am

    What dopes! Didn't they realize what a friggin' racket one of those things makes? Like a giant bumble bee turned up to eleven.

  11. Guybrush Threepwood
    May 27th, 2009 at 8:58 am

    I heard that the next trial will use hobbits, a flying dog and mentos + coke propulsion kits.

  12. Kalel
    May 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Three pigeons and a mini chopper fly into a prison bar and…

    One pidgeon says to the other, "In my day, you needed a crow to make a phone caw."

  13. Gauldar
    May 27th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    @Guybrush Threepwood

    I think you just invented a plot to the next Disney movie.

  14. atheists eat fish
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am

    @Kalel

    LOL- nice punchline!

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