Guy Gets Arrested For Trying To Shoot Cell Phones Into A Prison Using A Crossbow
Metro- A man has been arrested for allegedly using a crossbow in a bid to fire mobile phones into a Russian prison for inmates to use. Cornelius Bazarov, 21, was seized with 18 mobiles, spare batteries and earpieces strapped to the end of crossbow bolts with gaffer tape. He was caught when a wall guard at the jail in the town of Tavda, in southern Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast, noticed someone moving through the trees at 1.50am and hit the alarm button. Bazarov was arrested stumbling through the undergrowth, but it wasn’t until the next morning that police found ten crossbow bolts, the phones, SIM cards and the bow that had been left in a weapons case just 100-metres from the fence. Prison spokesman Daniel Krylov said: ‘Phones are almost as bad as drugs in prisons. ‘When inmates get their hands on them they have access to their criminal networks and can even commit crimes while they’re safely in here with an alibi. ‘They use them to order drugs, blackmail staff, threaten other inmates or even organise revenge on people who put them there in the first place. ‘We arrested the man found in the forest outside the prison walls and he is now facing jail time himself.’
Do you ever wonder what it’d be like to go to prison? Like if you accidentally killed a dude in a car accident and got sent to the big house on vehicular man slaughter charges? I do and it scares the shit outta me big time. It’s my #1 fear. I’m way more scared of prison than I am dying. If prison were like the Shawshank Redemption it wouldn’t be so bad (minus The Sisters). But one of my main fears of prison is the fact that I don’t represent anything. I feel like the guys who go in there already have representation with a gang or a group. They go in and know people. Black guys, Asians, Nazi, Aryan Brotherhood (these are groups I gathered from that TV show Lockdown on the National Geographic Channel). I’m a blogger. I’m just a dopey moron from the middle of the map. They’d see me coming from a million miles away. My weaknesses would be apparent very early. I’d catch one of those cell phones fired from a crossbow and I wouldn’t use it to run my criminal organization from the inside. I’d use it to call my Mom and cry. Or check Twitter. Or to see if Jimmy John’s or Dominos would deliver to my location. The other inmates would spot me right then and there and my life would be a living hell going forward.
PS- A+ for creativity on the crossbow thing even though he got caught.