November 4, 2005
Drug barons turn to toads to smuggle mobile phones
Inmates reach new creativity level in smuggling in cell phones. According to PCPro, drug barons incarcerated in a Thai prison have been using toads, yes toads, to smuggle in mobile phones and SIM cards.
"The Bangkok Post reports that a number of mobile phones and SIM cards were seized during a surprise search at Bang Kwang prison in Nonthaburi province yesterday'.
Prison commander Sopon Thititam-prue said that smuggling attempts are commonplace, and certainly innovative.
'We have found a mobile phone hidden in food, in pork leg stew,' he said. 'SIM cards were found inside a dried squid. One was found stuffed inside a dead toad which was thrown over the prison wall.'" [via Phoneyworld]
Related:
-- The newest prison contraband: cellphones Cellphones are making their way into jails and prison through all kinds of methods: They're stuffed inside mayonnaise jars, hidden in compost piles, shoved into the soles of shoes, slipped inside hollowed-out blocks of cheese. But the most alarming way to obtain a cellphone is to simply to pay a corrupt correctional officer to provide one.
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