DNR SWAT unit raids animal shelter and removes fawn in body bag at gunpoint.
Wait! I know that's an old headline that I've previously blogged about, but new information has come to my attention. In a recent article on Motherboard (www.facebook.com/motherboardtv), the authorities' hidden agenda has been made clear. They are not killing these (cute, widdle, helpless, baby) animals, they have been raising them and turning them into super-robots to aid in law enforcement operations.
Meghan Neal at Motherboard reports:
A hunter was busted after being duped in a robodeer sting by police. [The violator] was driving when he spotted the "animal" on the side of the road, pulled over, got out of his car, and shot [it] in the neck with a rifle. Cops quickly emerged from hiding nearby and arrested the poacher, who now faces a year in [jail] for hunting out of season and discharging a firearm from the roadway.
But robotic decoys aren't a new tactic; officials from state Fish and Wildlife Commissions have been using the technology to catch illegal hunters for years.... Police set up the robotic replica as bait to target poachers that ignore game laws and kill deer in an unsportsmanlike fashion - out of season, from public roadways, using nighttime spotlighting, and so on.
The decoys look super-realistic, particularly when staged in the woods, officials say. Also, they move. Cops crouching in the bushes or whatnot nearby can make the robodeer flick its tail, move its ears, or turn its head with a remote controller, from up to 50 feet away.
And these [super-robodeer] can take as many as 1,000 shots before they need to be replaced.
The animal droids are created by Custom Robotic Wildlife (www.roboticwildlife.com), a taxidermy company in Wisconsin that makes robot decoys and sells them to law enforcement for anti-poaching activities.
The company website states: "Combining technology, creativity and the art of taxidermy, [CRW] is a leader in producing all types of robotic mounts including conservation decoys for law enforcement agencies. Powered by twelve 'AA' batteries, this system is not only easy to use, but extremely deadly for bringing your prey out in the open and into range."
I tried reaching out to the robo-ruminants for comment, but they have not returned my mating calls.
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