Public urged to report suspicious drone activity near Rochdale prison,
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Not exactly the smartest cookies are they⌠You donât return to the scene of the crime driving the same vehicle whose VRM is bouncing off police ANPR systems.
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Exactly that âŚ. There lucky there wasnât a ladder in the tights ! 
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That seems like a lot of drugs to be lifted by a drone.
Drones to stop Drones doing there deliveryâs to prisons â could this work â 
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The threat drones pose to prisons is unprecedented
Sayâs the bloke in charge of sales at Heliguy 
Just put netting over your prison yard 
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Put a net around staff entrances too
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Mmmmm, very questionable this remark. I assume youâve maybe led a very sheltered life, with blinkers on and wearing ear muffs.
Our prisons are crawling with hard drugs, not just your puff puff.
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( like a guard dog of the sky they say, yep theyâve definitely gone barking mad ! )
Who was the MP that wanted to use barking dogs to scare off drones? 
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Oh yea âŚâŚ. Who actually was it 
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Oh, yeah; bus shelters, park shelters, air raid sheltersâŚ
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Aha, âhumourâ to cover up yer usual opinionated ignorance ehâŚhuh, good one, rolling round me
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Keep rolling, mate; Iâm not rising to thatâŚ
I live in a deprived inner-city area which has itâs share of social problems, criminality, and drugs. I drink in a local pub that has some pretty rough customers, of the sort that vanish for a few months or even a year or so at a time âover the wallâ. Cardiff Prison is just over a mile away, and I have to comment that Iâve never seen a drone anywhere near it, not that I waste much of my time lookingâŚ
While none of these characters are what I would call friends, if they speak to me with respect and dignity I am happy to afford them the same courtesy. I donât go around talking about my drone in the pub, though, as I have no desire to be forced into flying over the wall, nor do I tell them about my computer, or tv, or my nice camera, or my hi-fi, as I have no great wish to be robbed.
But I do get into conversation with some of these people, and am basing my comments about drugs inside prison on what they say about it. The prisons concerned are mostly Cardiff, Swansea, and Horfield in Bristol; some have been incacerated at Winson Green in Birmingham. They tell me that it is easier to obtain drugs, including âhardâ drugs, in prison than on the outside, but that fewer prisoners bother with the hard drugs because they are too expensive for most of them.
Prison economies are influenced by threat and violence from other prisoners, and everybody has to take care of what they say, do, and especially who they owe money or favours to. It is a standard procedure for other prisoners to give you whatever drug you want so that you become indebted to, and therefore controllable by, them. The majority of these lads mostly use cannabis outside and continue to do so inside. They are petty crims, thugs, minor theives themselves; the hard drug users mostly havenât got their shit together enough to be servable in pubs, even rough ones, and the drug gangs operate in their own horrible world, which does not feature the pub much, low level dealers operating out of flats with schoolkid runners on bikes and taking deliveries and instructions from smartly dressed characters in dark glasses and beemers!
So I think itâs reasonable to say that my opinionated ignorance is actually what I have learned from people directly involved in prison life, and is therefore fact not opinion, and informed not ignorant. The situation may well be different in other prisons, with âharderâ and long term inmates, and there are certainly hard drugs in the prisons Iâve mentioned, but their use is restricted to those who can afford them. The supply may be easier than on the outside, but gaining the werewithal reasonably safely to buy them is much less easy than on the outside, where you can always rob someone or sell yourself if youâre a woman to âmake a raiseâ to obtain a supply. All our local girls are on crack, forced onto them by their pimp boyfriends.
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You just did⌠.
Thanks for the story Jackonory. You been watching âStacey Dooley does gangsâ or summatâŚ
Ross Kemp 
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News articles seem to pop up almost on a daily basis these days,
I heard on the radio today that the government are making the ownership of car key fob signal jammers and signal relay devices illegal in order to deter criminals from using them to steal cars.
You couldnât make this stuff up.
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