Usherettes in night-goggles stage pirate-hunt stunt

MARVELLOUS STUFF from our man in Kuala Lumpur, or, to be entirely accurate, Reuters' man or woman in Kuala Lumpur.

He, or possibly she, reports that Malaysians are using night goggles to stop pirates from filming new releases then whacking them onto DVD.

“After showing people to their seats, trained ushers are strapping on the goggles and scanning darkened cinemas around the country to spot anyone trying to make illegal copies of movies with hand-held video recorders or mobile phones,” the Reuters person writes.

Seventeen people have already been captured by ushers sporting the headgear. But that's not all. Our old canine ex-pat friends are still on the pirate watchin KL, allowing the Reuters person, who by this stage really deservers a byline if not a Pulitzer prize, to end on this crashing note:

“The two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, have sniffed out more than a million DVDs and broken a fake DVD ring. They have been so successful that authorities believe Malaysian pirates have put a bounty on the dogs' heads.”

Lucky and Flo? The pair of pooches press-ganged into the services of the MPAA after successfully sniffing out legitimate CDs from passengers' luggage at Stansted airport?

Aye, the very same me lad. Scourge of one-legged eye-patch wearers everywhere. µ

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