Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 10:09:13 GMT -6
Actually, it isn't just one phone. It is closer to 1,000 phones that one dog in California has located on behalf of the Department of Corrections.
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I think its pretty neat that dogs are able to hit on things like this, especially when you read more of the story. Apparently, they don't even know for certain what the dog is hitting on. It hits on batteries and phones alike, whether together or separate. So, it isn't just one of those. It hits on chargers too. Apparently, as they say, this dog hits on anything that has been attached to a cell phone. (It REALLY makes me start wondering what is so unique as to 'mark' something that has interacted with a phone for scent, honestly)
Apparently, even sticking the devices into a microwave or buried in a bottle of peanut butter is no match for this pooch. In thinking back, I had seen a show profiling one dog and using some sort of target inside manila envelopes. They would only describe it as non-narcotic and 100% legal, but important for the dog to be able to find. I figured gunpowder or Hoppes #9 (one of the most common gun solvents) but perhaps it was a modest cell phone in that demonstration.
Something else comes to mind though, and I can't help but wonder. Vacaville is a maximum security prison. (I'm assuming they mean the prison there, and not the secure medical facility located next to it) A rather nasty one at that, actually. So I have a real good question.....
HOW have 1,000 phones been smuggled into a place they call secure and actually keep a straight face while saying it? Phones are NOT "small" things, in the sense of what methods are available to smuggle one, let alone 1,000 of them over time. No wonder our prisons are Gladiator Schools with little to no sense of order inside many of them. They're as secure as an outhouse door to judge by the results of this dog's work.
One California prison is utilizing a dog to sniff out cellphones hidden by prisoners. The dog, Drako, working in Vacaville, has a sensational nose for the phones. His officer, Brian Pyle, showed exactly how Drako worked. Pyle told San Francisco's KPIX5: “He looks for marijuana, heroin, cocaine"--but also cell phones. “In four years, he’s found 1,000. When we go into a cell, Drako knows what time it is. He knows it’s time to go to work.”
I think its pretty neat that dogs are able to hit on things like this, especially when you read more of the story. Apparently, they don't even know for certain what the dog is hitting on. It hits on batteries and phones alike, whether together or separate. So, it isn't just one of those. It hits on chargers too. Apparently, as they say, this dog hits on anything that has been attached to a cell phone. (It REALLY makes me start wondering what is so unique as to 'mark' something that has interacted with a phone for scent, honestly)
Apparently, even sticking the devices into a microwave or buried in a bottle of peanut butter is no match for this pooch. In thinking back, I had seen a show profiling one dog and using some sort of target inside manila envelopes. They would only describe it as non-narcotic and 100% legal, but important for the dog to be able to find. I figured gunpowder or Hoppes #9 (one of the most common gun solvents) but perhaps it was a modest cell phone in that demonstration.
Something else comes to mind though, and I can't help but wonder. Vacaville is a maximum security prison. (I'm assuming they mean the prison there, and not the secure medical facility located next to it) A rather nasty one at that, actually. So I have a real good question.....
HOW have 1,000 phones been smuggled into a place they call secure and actually keep a straight face while saying it? Phones are NOT "small" things, in the sense of what methods are available to smuggle one, let alone 1,000 of them over time. No wonder our prisons are Gladiator Schools with little to no sense of order inside many of them. They're as secure as an outhouse door to judge by the results of this dog's work.
