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03-22-07, 03:45 PM
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Malaysian criminals want to kill Lucky and Flo, the world's first pirated-movie-sniffing dogs, according to reports from the region.
"Following the successful raid at a shopping complex in Johor Baru on Tuesday, sources informed the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs that syndicate members are looking for the dogs," the ministry’s enforcement assistant director, Firdaus Zakaria, said yesterday, according to the New Strait Times. "The dogs are a genuine threat to the pirated disc syndicates, thus the instruction to eliminate them."
The newspaper, which did not say how much the syndicates were willing to pay to have the dogs killed, reports that the government has stepped up security for the canines after their first high-profile bust.
Last week, the female black Labradors led police to a cache of 1 million movies and video games that were hidden in an office building in Malaysia. "Lucky and Flo were able to sniff under the doors -- all the doors were locked, and many of them had metal grilles," Reuters reported yesterday. "If they smelt polycarbonate, they would sit down. Then the officials used metal grinders and bolt cutters to open the doors."
AP says six people were arrested in the operation, which netted pirated products with a street value estimated at $2.86 million.
The dogs, said to be staying in a safe house because of the threat, belong to the Motion Picture Association of America.
According to the Malaysian newspaper, this is not the first time that sniffer dogs have drawn a bounty. In 2004, the paper says, a Colombian drug cartel offered $10,000 to anyone who killed a golden Labrador that had uncovered hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin.
Source - USA Today blogs (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/malaysia_pirate.html)
Malaysian criminals want to kill Lucky and Flo, the world's first pirated-movie-sniffing dogs, according to reports from the region.
"Following the successful raid at a shopping complex in Johor Baru on Tuesday, sources informed the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs that syndicate members are looking for the dogs," the ministry’s enforcement assistant director, Firdaus Zakaria, said yesterday, according to the New Strait Times. "The dogs are a genuine threat to the pirated disc syndicates, thus the instruction to eliminate them."
The newspaper, which did not say how much the syndicates were willing to pay to have the dogs killed, reports that the government has stepped up security for the canines after their first high-profile bust.
Last week, the female black Labradors led police to a cache of 1 million movies and video games that were hidden in an office building in Malaysia. "Lucky and Flo were able to sniff under the doors -- all the doors were locked, and many of them had metal grilles," Reuters reported yesterday. "If they smelt polycarbonate, they would sit down. Then the officials used metal grinders and bolt cutters to open the doors."
AP says six people were arrested in the operation, which netted pirated products with a street value estimated at $2.86 million.
The dogs, said to be staying in a safe house because of the threat, belong to the Motion Picture Association of America.
According to the Malaysian newspaper, this is not the first time that sniffer dogs have drawn a bounty. In 2004, the paper says, a Colombian drug cartel offered $10,000 to anyone who killed a golden Labrador that had uncovered hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin.
Source - USA Today blogs (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/malaysia_pirate.html)