Scottish Convicts Turn PS3s and Computer Mice Into Illicit Cell Phone Chargers

[Danpascooch]

This makes NO SENSE. If they have access to PS3's, they have access to outlets, if they have access to outlets, why not just smuggle in a charger along with the phone?

 

[mjc0961]

HMP Addiwell is a privately run prison built in 2008. Inmates supposedly refer to it as "Addison," after the Raddision hotel chain, because its facilities are more modern and comfortable than the typical UK Prison. PS3 consoles are apparently just one part of this, as cells also have flat screen televisions, and en suite bathroom facilities.

wut

It is prison, not happy fun times. Get rid of all that stuff and treat those people like the criminal scum they are. They shouldn't have even had PS3s and mice to do this with in the first place.

 

[Scrythe]

If Motley Crue's The Dirt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirt] has taught me anything, it's that prison sort of turns you into a MacGuyver. Crazy ingenuity like this happens all the time.

 

[Jamash]

This makes NO SENSE. If they have access to PS3's, they have access to outlets, if they have access to outlets, why not just smuggle in a charger along with the phone?

While mobile phones are getting smaller and smaller and easier to shove up your arse, phone chargers are still quite bulky, have 3 painful prongs and a lot of trailing wire.

Additionally, compared to the phones themselves, the chargers contain a lot of metal and would be harder to get past the metal detectors.

 

[tavelkyosoba]

every hour of gameplay should be accompanied by one hour of being sprayed by a fire-hose in the yard.

edit: and this kind of ingenuity happens anywhere people are confined with not much to do. prison, barracks, dorm rooms...whatever.

 

[new_vision]

Reminds me of this;
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100883-Inmate-Creativity-The-PlayStation-Tattoo-Machine

 

[CanadianWolverine]

What is wrong with some of the people posting? Are you so blind in your desire for vengeance on those serving time that you have to take away all the elements of an environment that breed rehabilitation socially and provides a safer working environment for the guards and other staff?

So, what do you really want, a bit of compassion for the human condition and fewer professional criminals or vicious vindication and blindly righteous fury at the petty convicts the propaganda tells you to hate while white collar crime continues unchecked creating the environments of high poverty and desperation that give rise to the need for more prisons for all the prisoners?

If I had my way, people serving their time would all be given EVE accounts or some other MMO to spend their time imagining their selfs among the stars or some fantasy digital world rather than learning to be a better criminal in prison gangs or being tortured slowly by brain damaging solitary confinement.

 

[Ghengis John]

Are these cordless mice they're using? And isn't prison supposed to be a punishment, or is that just one those cultural differences across the pond?
These British Prisons sound like life in college dorms minus the essays and hangovers.

Did you actually read the four--count them! four!--paragraphs on this page before trolling? How would you suppose they use the wires from a cordless mouse to charge their cell batteries? If they were cordless, the mice would have AA's or something similar, and wouldn't need to be connected to the PS3 via USB...the entire ingenious idea being USB carries power as well as information, and that a basic circuit can be completed to connect to the cell battery.

But, hey, it's a PS3: nobody cares!

(^That was a quote from a post Hankman made that got him probation.)

I just wanted to know how this worked, but i'll be sure not to ask honest questions again whenever you're online! sheesh

I have heard there is a cultural difference between prisons in europe and in the united states. In europe they don't kill each other, do drugs or rape one another. Hence they need other forms of entertainment.

But seriously, they just sit in their cells and serve their time. That's what I hear anyway.

 

[Oskamunda]

Are these cordless mice they're using? And isn't prison supposed to be a punishment, or is that just one those cultural differences across the pond?
These British Prisons sound like life in college dorms minus the essays and hangovers.

Did you actually read the four--count them! four!--paragraphs on this page before trolling? How would you suppose they use the wires from a cordless mouse to charge their cell batteries? If they were cordless, the mice would have AA's or something similar, and wouldn't need to be connected to the PS3 via USB...the entire ingenious idea being USB carries power as well as information, and that a basic circuit can be completed to connect to the cell battery.

But, hey, it's a PS3: nobody cares!

(^That was a quote from a post Hankman made that got him probation.)

I just wanted to know how this worked, but i'll be sure not to ask honest questions again whenever you're online! sheesh

Please don't act like I am unduly jumping down your throat...the answer to your question lay, literally, 35 words into the article that you are reading; and that's negating the fact that the operation in question is not even physically possible without the presence of wires...this isn't a Tesla Field we're talking about here. But, for the sake of argument, let's say that you honestly had no idea that electricity in the amounts required could be perpetuated through the air without wiring...if you cannot read 35 words before yapping, I'm not the one being silly. Being angry with someone for displaying such a stunning example of idleness does not make me a sociopath...sheesh!

 

[Mr. Doe]

...Where did criminals get a PS3 in jail? How did they get the mice? why charge theyre cell phones with it? Where did they get cell phones? What call could they possibly need to make? Could you even get reception inside a cell? What kind of prison is this?