The original Star Trek had an episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," where Kirk, Chekoff, and Uhura were captured, had "Collars of Obediance" placed around there necks, and were being trained as "Thralls."
-George, the other
Posted on 03/16/2006 5:26:06 PM PST by wagglebee
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California prison officials have begun using Global Positioning System anklets to track known gang members.
The gritty suburb of San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, this week became the first California city to use the GPS satellite navigation system to track gang members when the devices were strapped onto three parolees, state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jeanne Woodford said.
Six California counties began using GPS to monitor sex offenders in 2005 and some have already been arrested for violating parole after they were tracked to off-limits areas.
"GPS tracking is just another tool in the bag; we will still use ground personnel to track gang members," said Sarah Ludeman, another spokeswoman for the corrections department.
Under an arrangement between prison officials and San Bernardino, high-risk parolees known to belong to street gangs will be released from custody on the condition that they wear a GPS bracelet on their ankles at all times.
They appear as moving dots on a map and if they try to remove the anklet or enter unauthorized areas the device sends an alert to a base station monitored by law enforcement officials.
The University of California at Irvine will review the results of the pilot program for its effectiveness.
I don't know about using a GPS.
How about an RPG?
Chips under the skin -- Digital Angels -- are next.
What we need now is cruise missiles that can be trained onto those collars. Really powerful ones that can wipe out everything within 100 yards of the criminal.
Ping! ;-)
I'd prefer that they be trucked out to a deep abandoned mine shaft and dumped in.
BTW, I doubt the folks in San Bernardino care to have their city decribed as a suburb OR as "gritty". It is certainly no garden spot but the writer sure has an unduly snobby contempt for the 'Inland Empire'.
There was an Arnold S. movie that featured explodable radio-controlled metal collars that were permanaently locked round the prisoner's necks. If a prisoner crossed the prison's fence line the collar would explode.
I can't remember the name of the movie, but somehow the collar didn't stop Arnold from escaping from prison.
The collars that decapitate them if they cross a boundry,ala Arnold.
I'd like to, but I won't.
The Minister of Information woulds stick 5 more pins in the Amerigomag doll and the doodlebug would ping the management for a review of the reply under the guise of guidance.
may as well track the democrat state legislators too i f we're gonna start tracking gang members., I like the shock collar idea, btw. ;-)
Revelation 13:
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Awww... you're no fun! LOL.
Total Recall
WOW! You just enduced a major flash back on me!
I think an extra twist was they didn't know who in the prison population had the matching collar.
Wow Just think. Now you can commit crime and prove you were not there!
Remember what Scotty had to say.
The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the pipes.
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