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Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
« on: October 10, 2008, 08:10:27 AM »
« Last Edit: October 10, 2008, 08:48:09 PM by rbcp »
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Re: Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2008, 09:32:20 AM »
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The largest theft at the park occurred last year, when 17 saguaros were dug up and stashed for transportation later.

How dare they steal 17 cacti! Whatever will the desert become now that it has lost that huge number of plants?! The only reasonable thing to do MUST be to embed hundreds of costly computer chips in every single remaining cactus so that this madness will come to an end.
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Re: Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2008, 02:35:00 PM »
Well there goes our commando squad.
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Re: Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2008, 05:46:26 PM »
Holy shit. I want to yank a few of those chips out and see what it would take to get it either in an animals stomach via food or tangled in their fur. A wild one of course.

It'd be hilarious.  :nonsense:
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Re: Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2008, 05:53:54 PM »
If the thieves are making $1,000 per cactus, it won't be much of a problem for them to buy their own expensive chip scanner, find the chip and remove it.

What's the big deal about cactus theft anyway?  So what if they're in someone's front yard instead of out in the desert?  Quit being so goddamned sentimental, Arizona!
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