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City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders
An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward pet owners who clean up after their pets and punish those who don't. A six-month trial program launched this week, in the city of Petah Tikva, to tackle the dog mess problem in a high tech way. The program asks dog owners to take their pets to a veterinarian, who then swabs its mouth and collects DNA. The city will use the DNA database it is building to match droppings to a dog and identify its owner. Owners who scoop up their dogs' droppings and place them in specially marked bins will be eligible for rewards of pet food coupons and dog toys. Those who leave the poo on the street face fines. I wonder what sin you had to commit in a previous life to find yourself the official dog poop examiner of Petah Tikva, Israel.
What a shitty idea.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
during election season if it can trace bullshit back to it's source.
Save up like a MONTH of your dog's poo. Then go around spooning it into these containers. Get fido's mouth swabbed, and watch as all the alarms at the veterinarian's office go off. Oy vey! We have a winner!
They should do this with people who smoke and drop their cigarette butts on the ground.
What? Send them to the vet to get a DNA swab so they'll be eligible for coupons on dog food and doggie toys?
Law & Order: SPU (special poop unit)
Possible sins committed in previous life
1. invented those little sticky lables that go on fruit
2. invented advertising
3. invented reality tv
4. being George Lucas (I mean he's gotta pay for Jar-Jar Binks)
5. being any RIAA lawyer
6. and finally (for special irony) being a fundamentalist ideologue of any stripe
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Agreed, we need less government interference in my dog's rectum.
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I wonder what sin you had to commit in a previous life to find yourself the official dog poop examiner of Petah Tikva, Israel.
Why, isn't it obvious? You'd have to be the sort of person who keeps posting these idle articles to the front page.
This technology is the shit!
Yeah, keep your nose out of my business!!!
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...they were stashing samples in freezers...
You mean that wasn't double chunk chocolate ice cream?
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An abandoned, steaming and odoriferous object in plain view (and smell) on a public street has claims of privacy? Please tell me more.
income stream
Best euphemism for bodily waste ever!
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And I can assure you that dog poop is quite a problem here. There is a lot of small children on the outside and dog poop is more immediate danger to them than occasional suicidal bomber.
obviously the suicide bombers have to up their game a bit if the general populace considers dog poop to be a greater threat.
maybe they should invent a new type of "dirty bomb".
they may even make suicide bombing a green profession, allowing you to re-use your martyrs because there were no nails ripping them in half.
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I think rather than the take-a-bite-out-of-crime dept.
This one should have come from the i'll-get-you-my-pretty-and-your're-little-dog-too dept
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In Soviet Russia, Dog Poop Sniffs YOU!