Fugitive On Run For 17 Years Found Living In Cave By a Drone (bbc.com) 51

Posted by BeauHD on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:40PM from the meddling-drones dept.

Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The BBC reports: The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in a tiny cave cut off from human interaction for years. Yongshan police received clues about Song's whereabouts in early September, they said on their WeChat account. Those clues led them to the mountains behind his hometown in Yunnan province in south-west China. After regular searches failed to find anything, authorities sent additional drones to help the officers. The drones eventually spotted a blue-colored steel tile on a steep cliff as well as traces of household rubbish nearby. According to the police, the man had been living in seclusion for so long that it was difficult for him to communicate with the officers. He has been sent back to jail.

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- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  You might ask that question. Everyone else knows solitude over forced labour.
  - Re:You might ask which is worse (Score:4, Insightful)
    
    by itamihn ( 1213328 ) writes: on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:29PM (#59254714) Homepage
    
    Everyone else knows solitude over forced organ donation.
    
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by gravewax ( 4772409 ) writes:
  
  I would take the solitude in a heartbeat.
  - Re: (Score:2)
    
    by phantomfive ( 622387 ) writes:
    
    Among White Clouds [youtu.be] is a good movie that visits a lot of these Chinese hermits. It's an old tradition in China, older than history.
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  by xushi ( 740195 ) writes:
  
  +1 to the replies.. I googled roughly the area he's in (aka.. Yunan mountains) and it looks beautiful! Wouldn't mind waking up to that for years instead of the sight of whoever's going to bumfuck me again in prison.
  - Re: You might ask which is worse (Score:2)
    
    by Type44Q ( 1233630 ) writes:
    
    But prisons are so homoerotic...
- Re: You might ask which is worse (Score:2)
  
  by Type44Q ( 1233630 ) writes:
  
  Lemme guess: prison was the only time you got any action?
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Aighearach ( 97333 ) writes:
  
  A lifetime of solitude in the mountains or a lifetime of unceasing racket from other prisoners.
  Well, we was "found living in a cave by a drone," so he at least had a toy to play with.
Was It a Javert model 2019 ? (Score:2)

by Crashmarik ( 635988 ) writes:

N/T
Spock, I found Khan! (Score:1)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

It's that red shirt that made his camp stand out. Trek had it right!
Living In Cave By a Drone ... (Score:2)

by CaptainDork ( 3678879 ) writes:

... and the police had been looking for a van down by the river [youtube.com].
"named Song Jiang by the police," (Score:2)

by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes:

What was his original name?
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by cpaalman ( 696554 ) writes:
  
  god damn
  
  -noob noob
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by PPH ( 736903 ) writes:
  
  Sum Ting.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by backslashdot ( 95548 ) writes:
  
  Poem Wang
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by qeveren ( 318805 ) writes:
  
  Are the police making some kind of Water Margin joke here? oO
Retirement (Score:3)

by dohzer ( 867770 ) writes: on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:34PM (#59254726)

My retirement plans are looking crumbling before my eyes.

- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by aaarrrgggh ( 9205 ) writes:
  
  Just mind your trash...
Minority Report (Score:2)

by Artem S. Tashkinov ( 764309 ) writes:

I've already seen that in a sci-fi movie... Looks like in the future ... wait already in the present you can't hide anywhere unless you live in a bunker and never leave it to get food.
Found by aliens (Score:2)

by jfdavis668 ( 1414919 ) writes:

The suspect probably thought he was being attacked by aliens. He was hiding so long he didn't know that drones even existed.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by GoTeam ( 5042081 ) writes:
  
  Honestly, he was probably relieved to find out that Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, and Creed are no longer popular. I bet it blew his mind to find out that the Red Sox and Cubs had won the world series. These topics will make good prison pillow talk if nothing else.
Thank Goodness (Score:5, Funny)

by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * writes: on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:09PM (#59254796) Homepage Journal

Now he will no longer be a danger to society that he abandoned!

- Re:Thank Goodness (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by OrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes: on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:00PM (#59254908) Homepage Journal
  
  Now he will no longer be a danger to society that he abandoned!
  "... had been jailed for trafficking women and children"
  1. the authorities were not sure where he was after he escaped. he could be back to business as usual for all they knew.
  2. most societies expect consequences for wrong actions. Traffic children -> go to prison. Easy to understand formula. Or in this case, go to a hard labor camp.
  3. escaping responsibility and leaving society is not the same as rehabilitating oneself.
  P.S. the above assumes his conviction is valid. The Chinese government has a pretty abysmal track record when it comes to putting away innocent people. I wouldn't be surprised if they score 50% or worse on this.
  
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    by JackieBrown ( 987087 ) writes:
    
    It can't be both?
Living in a cave by a drone? (Score:3)

by LynnwoodRooster ( 966895 ) writes: on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:59PM (#59254906) Journal

Moral of the story - don't live next to a drone. Seriously, for "editors", basic grammar seems to be about the 74th thing on their list of concerns...

- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by novakyu ( 636495 ) writes:
  
  That, or don't chop off words. It said "found living in a cave by a drone". As far as dangling modifiers go, this isn't the worst offender, and the only way to fix it is to restructure the phrase entirely ("found by a drone living in a cave" isn't any better).
  - Re: (Score:2)
    
    by LynnwoodRooster ( 966895 ) writes:
    
    ....was living in a cave when the police used a drone to spot his location.
    - Re: (Score:2)
      
      by novakyu ( 636495 ) writes:
      
      Try posting that as a title for a comment, much less a headline. Headlines are forced to be short.
      - Re: (Score:2)
        
        by LynnwoodRooster ( 966895 ) writes:
        
        Drone used to find cave-living fugitive
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by lorinc ( 2470890 ) writes:
        
        Fugitive On Run Living In Cave For 17 Years Found By a Drone
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by novakyu ( 636495 ) writes:
        
        Pretty sure that is actually wrong. The fugitive has been on the run for 17 years; the story doesn't say he's been living in the cave for 17 years.
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by novakyu ( 636495 ) writes:
        
        Tries to write headlines that can't be misunderstood.
He has been sent back to jail. (Score:2)

by PPH ( 736903 ) writes:

Why?
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by gravewax ( 4772409 ) writes:
  
  ummm because he was a fugitive avoiding his punishment? you think because he avoided being caught for 17 years that he should be exonerated??
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by JackieBrown ( 987087 ) writes:
  
  Exactly! The children he was trafficking are already grown up, right PPH?
Ameteur fugitive! (Score:3)

by aglider ( 2435074 ) writes: on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:36AM (#59255966) Homepage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
This guy just lived in a rather normal and cozy house not far from his home town for 43 years.
Captured in 2006, his latest known picture was from 1959!

- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by weilawei ( 897823 ) writes:
  
  Much easier if your job lets you work remotely.
Ttitle doesn't say what the author thinks it does (Score:1)

by Zero__Kelvin ( 151819 ) writes:

I understand why he was living in a cave, but why was a drone living nearby?
What was the drone doing by a cave? (Score:2)

by superdave80 ( 1226592 ) writes:

Fugitive On Run For 17 Years Found Living In Cave By a Drone
So was he found in a cave... that was next to a drone. Or did a drone find him in the cave?

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