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RATCHABURI : When it comes to finding ways to get in touch with the outside world, the convicts at Khao Bin central prison are nothing if not creative. And now they're taking to the skies, using radio-controlled helicopters to smuggle in mobile phones.
SIM CRASH: Officers seize a radio-controlled helicopter carrying mobile phones and accessories thought to be destined for Khao Bin central prison in Ratchaburi.
Officials at the prison in Muang district discovered the new phone-smuggling method yesterday after they found a crashed toy helicopter about 500m outside the high-security prison.
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Discussion 3 : 26/09/2011 at 12:12 PM3
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its not hard to smuggle things in and out of prison, there are hardly any metal detectors. You can easily hid things between body parts and off you go. Also the guards are corrupt as hell like the police here, anything you want is possible.
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Discussion 2 : 25/09/2011 at 03:45 PM2
Must have learned their helicopter skills from the Thai military.
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Discussion 1 : 25/09/2011 at 04:55 AM1
"...the mass smuggling in of mobile phones by inmates" Unlikely they are smuggled in by inmates. Rather by visitors, with the help from staff. Or perhaps even without the help of visitors.
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