It’s been nearly two weeks since the popular topic was refreshed on the pages of DroneDJ, so herewith a brief update on that gift that keeps giving: people pursuing the truly lousy idea of using drones to deliver contraband to prisons. Cue the Benny Hill theme, but keep the one from The Sopranos ready just in case.
When last the topic was visited, an ex-convict in New Jersey found the allure of flying a drone to delivery contraband back to the very prison he’d only recently been released from so strong he couldn’t resist – swiftly earning a 43-month jolt back in stir for his efforts. Since then the whir of illicit flights to jailhouses has continued unabated, offering a trio of new tales of droning for fun and custodial failure from around the world.
Perhaps the jolliest of the three came from the Canadian province of Quebec, whose penitentiaries renewed their claim to having the globe’s densest air traffic. On Wednesday, a drone attempting to make a…
