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| rdfs:comment | - The government needs a badass special operator for a suicide mission no sane person would undertake. So they recruit a suitably trained prisoner for the job. How do you ensure that the prisoner will cooperate and not head for the hills as soon as their cell door is opened? You attach a bomb to them. It isn't always for a government mission that this method of control is used. Explosive collars can keep prisoners from wandering off. They can make friends kill each other. They can make law-abiding people commit crimes. Examples of Explosive Leash include:
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| abstract | - The government needs a badass special operator for a suicide mission no sane person would undertake. So they recruit a suitably trained prisoner for the job. How do you ensure that the prisoner will cooperate and not head for the hills as soon as their cell door is opened? You attach a bomb to them. This is a common means of ensuring that people do things they normally would not do because of common sense. While there are occasions where the bomb is physically implanted, it is usually in the form of a Slave Collar locked around the person's neck. The collar can have a detonator operated by the mission controller. It can be on a timer giving the operator a strict time limit within which to accomplish the mission. Or it can be triggered by proximity to a detonating device placed to prevent their escape. It isn't always for a government mission that this method of control is used. Explosive collars can keep prisoners from wandering off. They can make friends kill each other. They can make law-abiding people commit crimes. The collar is always accompanied by a promise to remove it once certain conditions have been met, but there's never a guarantee. See also Why Am I Ticking?, Boxed Crook, and Your Head Asplode. For non-exploding examples, consider a Restraining Bolt or Slave Collar. Examples of Explosive Leash include:
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