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08:44 September 7th, 2006

“Pssst… Amigo… Answer my phone and say I’m not here”

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Okay, it’s time to brainstorm our new ad campaign.  We want to show that our cellphones are sleek, streamlined, and can go anywhere. How can we illustrate that?

Fast-forward to El Salvador, where it turns out four guys in a maximum security prison hid their cellphones and a charger in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells. The four, all gang members, inserted the phones into their rectums “far enough to reach their intestines,” a prison official said. 

Would you guys be willing to do endorsements?  Here’s the story:aaaaxray.jpg 

A recent undated X-Ray shows a cell phone in a Salvadoran prisoner’s lower intestine. REUTERS/Salvadoran Interior Ministry/Handout

 

 

 

 

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- Posted by Melly

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- Posted by MySecured.com · Mobile Phones that are a Pain in the #*%@!

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- Posted by MySecured.com · How NOT to Sneak Mobile Phones into Prison!

[...] A month ago we posted an item about gang leaders in El Salvador prisons who were hiding cellphones in their rectums, and using them to organize criminal activity from the prisons. [...]

- Posted by It’s why they call it a cell phone, I guess… - Reuters Blogs

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