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The Examiner reports today on recent D.C. Council emergency legislation that makes tampering with electronic monitoring ankle bracelets a crime. Under the temporary measure, anyone convicted of interfering with such a device would face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The move comes in the wake of news that a 22-year-old man who had been ordered to wear an ankle bracelet managed to disable the device before allegedly killing three men in Trinidad last summer. The suspect shut down his ankle bracelet by merely wrapping tinfoil around it. Doesn't it seem like if it's that simple to tamper with these devices, the threat of an extra six months in jail isn't likely to deter anyone who is intent on committing a crime? A spokesperson for the company that makes the devices told the paper that they have developed alternate technology to make sure authorities can continue to monitor an offender. Hopefully that doesn't involve banning the sale of tinfoil.
Council Makes Ankle Bracelet Tampering a Crime
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This 22 year old may be on to something. If we wrap Monkeyrotica in tinfoil - a la a gigantic burrito from Baja Fresh - will that "disable" his rantings?
Ha! Don't you think I've already tried that already? I've done tinfoil, bubble wrap, shaving cream, "Yes We Can" posters. Nothing works. When the voices tell me to to put on Spider Man Underoos and strangle hobos under the freeway, there's nothing can stop me. It is my blessing. It is my curse. I am Spider Man.
What sizes do these anklets come in? Can they play music?
What colors do they come in? Who sells them?
If Jim Graham has anything to do with this legislation, you can bet on having to go out to Virginia or Maryland when you need a new roll of aluminum foil.
I don't think so. The worst thing that will happen will be that DC vendors will be coerced to enter "voluntary agreements" to not sell "single" servings of Reynolds Wrap.
That's a real kick in the nuts when these things eventually go out of style.
Thankfully, Brittney will be wearing hers for the foreseeable future.
does this cover friendship bracelets?
what happens to people who just wear tinfoil pants, or tinfoil socks? there has to be some kind of 1st amendment suit here, right? freedom of expression?
i'm trying to help you, lawyers!
If you make ankle bracelet tampering a crime, only criminals will tamper with their ankle bracelets. Seems redundant.
I bedazzled mine with red white and blue rhinestones which spell out 'Yes We Can'
I wonder if this is tampering?