Dude, your colon's ringing.
Four members of the notoriously violent El Salvadorean street gang Mara Salvatrucha hid mobile phones, chargers, and extra chips inside their bowels so to coordinate criminal acts from prison. Extra points for the first BoingBoing reader to correctly identify the specific cellphone model shown in this guy's lower intestine, below (a Treo, perchance?) Snip from news story:
The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines," Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray examinations following six weeks of investigations.
Link (thanks, Hal Bringman, via unwired list)
Update: Salvadorean Assphone Enigma Solved!
Sascha says
It's a cheap-ass (so to speak) VK530, which is sold by the Salvadoran cellular provider Telemovil's Tigo brand. Check it out all cleaned up here. You can get a less X-rayed view of it 15 seconds into the Reuters story video. Of course, I'm the cell phone reviewer for PC Magazine, so it's sort of my job to know these things. Check out my review of a much sexier device, the new RIM Pearl (I can't figure out how to make that joke, but come on, it's there), here.
Thanks to everyone who emailed with colonphone suggestions.
