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Rich Mexicans chip themselves

Terrified of kidnapping
Friday, 22 August 2008, 09:54

WEALTHY MEXICANS are so terrified of soaring kidnapping rates that they have taken to implanting tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them.

Mexico ranks with Iraq and Colombia as being among the worst countries for abductions having soared by more than 40 percent between 2004 and 2007.

Xega, a Mexican security firm, claims that its sales jumped 13 percent this year, on the back of a boom in implantation sales. It has apparently installed its tracking chip inside more than 2,000 clients.

The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients' bodies with a syringe.

However the person still has to be close to another larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it. If the kidnappers do not take this away from the person a satellite can then pinpoint the location of the victim.

So it might just be a wee bit of a gimmick. ยต

L'Inq
Reuters

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Not so daft

"However the person still has to be close to another larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it. If the kidnappers do not take this away from the person a satellite can then pinpoint the location of the victim."

This isn't as silly as it seems. If the kidnappers do separate the GPS gizmo and the victim, that gives the monitoring station both an immediate red flag that something's up, and a fix on where it happened, so there's a chance of an immediate action before the kidnappers can whisk away the victim somewhere untraceable. 

Presumably if the separation's intentional by the client, there should be some way to flag that so that the alarms don't sound.

posted by : Jon G, 22 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Why would anyone rich stay in Mexico?

When you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

posted by : Political analyst, 22 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Very cool until...

... cheated wives start to request recorded tracking data for divorce lawsuits.

posted by : Curious, 22 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Here, we go!

Here, we go!

How do the "people" who written Bible, knew about this? Only one variant: They made it happened.

posted by : cris, 23 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Micro-chipping

No! Do not do this! It is an unnatural act, we were not born with chips, therefore we should nor implant these devices. God himself knows where you are at all times, and in Him alone can you rest, no matter what happens or occurs here in the earthly realm. These chips cause cancer, and is the fulfilment of prophecy foretold.

posted by : Luath, 24 August 2008 Complain about this comment
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