Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Dogs Find "Underdog" Fakes


The war against movie piracy is now a little bit cuter, as the District Attorney’s office has recruited international DVD sniffing dogs to help them find illegal copies of counterfeit. Lucky and Flo, two black Labrador Retrievers rescued from shelters, were instrumental in three counterfeit DVD busts in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday. The dogs quickly sniffed out boxes containing DVD’s in a jam-packed basement, and their detective work lead to several arrests and the seizure of thousands of bootleg DVD’s. The dogs, each of which currently has a $30,000 bounty on their heads in the Philippines, are on a world tour right now. The next stop on their campaign to fight movie piracy will be Canada.
“My wife and I have a yellow lab at home,” said District Attorney Brown. “We’ve asked if she can help.”

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