Image credit – REUTERS/OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
The idea of drones being able to make deliveries sounds good. They can fly meaning that they can escape traffic on the ground, which in turn makes deliveries a lot faster. In fact companies like Amazon are hoping to make drone deliveries an actual thing. However in the meantime it seems that prisoners trying to sneak in contraband from the outside isn’t really helping the cause.
According to a report from Reuters, it seems that a drone has crashed in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The drone was discovered to be carrying all manner of contraband, including mobile phones, drugs, and hacksaw blades just to name a few. However because of the crash, officials managed to clear the contraband before the prisoners could get their hands on them.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton said, “I applaud and commend the quick action and diligence on the part of the staff who noticed the UAV that entered the prison grounds.” We suppose in a way this is actually pretty ingenious, but at the same time this isn’t the first time this has happened.
Last year there was a report of a drone carrying a payload of phones crashing before it could make its delivery, which in turn led to the arrest of the drone’s pilot. In fact just a couple of months ago, a similar situation happened in Ohio where another crash foiled the attempts of prisoners to get their hands on contraband.