Comments on: Prison to inmates: defeat locks, win food

By: Cooper DiBiase

Cooper DiBiase — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Hey, man, if you’ve been employed as a sailor and the only discharge you’ve got has to do with bowel movements you’re golden.

By: cfuse

cfuse — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:29:00 +0000

Parallel contest: snitch about broken locks to the guards and suggest improvements, win a shank between the ribs from the other inmates.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:56:00 +0000

I remember when they opened a brand-spanking new jail here in Austin and were a bit dismayed to find NONE of the locks worked. Doubt they handed out extra food though. Always thought electronic locks were problematical.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Did you have to use “Taco Bell” and “discharged” in the same sentence? Ulp…

By: Cooper DiBiase

Cooper DiBiase — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:31:00 +0000

I don’t know either… I’ve never been incarcerated, but I did work on a ship for a few months one summer. This ship, I should note, boasted satellite television. At that time Taco Bell was debuting the “grilled stuft burrito”, and just about the first thing that I did when I was discharged from that ship was to track one down. And it was glorious.

Now, if I were watching commercials like that for five or ten years…

By: thatbob

thatbob — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:43:00 +0000

Totally agree. To get food, you should have to beat the octopus’s best time.

By: thatbob

thatbob — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:42:00 +0000

I don’t know. Last time I checked, humans still ate food.

By: BJ Rooney

BJ Rooney — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:19:00 +0000

I was just thinking the same thing. It reminds me of the monkey trials I saw on a recent docu about human evolution and the determinism of our co-evolution, where the breaking point of learned behavior happened along the timeline. When do we cease being a single sentient species and become another ‘great ape’ to be studied?

By: travtastic

travtastic — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Acknowledge their abilities and usefulness by letting them solve your problems for you. Dehumanize them by making the prize goddamned food.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:59:00 +0000

They seemingly had a drunk camera man.

By: txhoudini

txhoudini — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000

They should expand the program. Teach them to be a couple levels higher in skill than your average script-kiddie and rent them out to test your network’s security. Inmates are taught valuable computer science skills plus the jail makes a little money.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:47:00 +0000

Strangely enough, defeating locks in places other than the jail can also get you free food.

Or, uh, so I’ve been told…

By: Philip Elliott

Philip Elliott — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:17:00 +0000

WSB, not WSBT

By: Stephen Schenck

Stephen Schenck — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:34:00 +0000

Any write-up for us video Luddites?

By: Stay_Sane_Inside_Insanity

Stay_Sane_Inside_Insanity — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Ah, “Altanta,” that post-punk, grungy alternative to Atlanta. So indie.

Edit: Aw, turns out it was Atlanta after all. But no apology for the confusion? Bad form, BoingBoing. ~_^

By: lknope

lknope — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:19:00 +0000

That is simply ridiculous. Defeating the lock should be it’s own reward.