Defamer
The AP brings word that Lucky and Flo, the two darling black Labs who have become international sensations for their keen ability to sniff out illegal DVDs and CDs, are in grave danger. After their first practical stakeout and bust while on loan to the Malaysian government netted a bounty of nearly $3 million in bootlegged discs and six arrests, the Malaysian pirating mafia reportedly put a bounty on their cute, poochie heads:
Lucky and Flo, the two Labradors who helped sniff out nearly 1 million illegal discs last week within days of joining Malaysia's anti-piracy effort, have been moved to a safe house, a news report said Thursday.The New Straits Times reported that a source had tipped off officials about a bounty offered for killing the sniffer dogs, who are on loan for a month from the Motion Picture Association of America. The amount was not disclosed.
''The dogs are a genuine threat to the pirated disc syndicates, thus the instruction to eliminate them,'' Firdaus Zakaria, the enforcement director of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, was quoted as saying.
As calls fly across town from material-hungry TV producers looking to secure the rights to our panting heroes' globetrotting exploits, we'd like to remind everyone that while their still-unfolding story appears to contain the seeds for the next great canine adventure series (with possible CGI-enhanced voicing by multi-talented spouses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.!), there are two very real lives at stake here that might at any moment be snuffed out by the silencer-muffled gunfire of Malaysia's stealthiest doggie assassin.
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What the pirates can't do, Eukanuba will do for them.
A Malaysian pirated disc syndicate? Wouldn't you love to see the Godfather (or Dogfather, as the case may be) of that group? I think it's time for the MPA to refund some money and bring those doggies home.
They should just get a male model to do the job - just because it didn't work with the PM of Malaysia doesn't mean they can't whack a couple of pooches.
That will avoid the universe folding in on itself when Lucky and Flo have to sniff out the pirated version of their cinematic masterpiece in Malaysia next year.
We all know that pirated cd's and dvd's stink. BUT, I seriously doubt that they have a distinctive odor so that these dog's can sniff them out. What the dogs -- and the press -- are smelling is a boatload of BULLSHIT!!!
If Lucky and Flo go down, I can't go on in this rotten world anymore...again.
@Dragonwolf: Actually, the dogs are sniffing for polycarbonates, which leads them to find discs, especially in very large numbers. Dogs can smell cancer, so I don't think it's that insane to think they can smell some DVDs in a box marked "cookies" or whatever.
Do the Malaysian mafia not realize that if you can train one dog to do something, you can train a lot of them to do it, too? If they off Lucky and Flo, Teddy and Pixie will be dispatched to replace them in no time.
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What? It's for the dogs.
Why can't the Malaysian pirates just offer a bounty on the entire MPAA? In fact, they can offer a bounty on any studio executive with a past life as a lawyer, accountant, or Scientologist. Trust me, we want the dogs around way way way way more than those people.
I wonder if Martin Blank is available for hire? I hear he already has pooch-snuffing experience...
It's Malaysia, people. They weren't "putting out a contract". They were simply ordering entrees.
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