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Mexican cops offer Xboxes for guns

Mexican ne'er-do-wells are being offered the chance to trade their traditional shoot-'em-ups for a less lethal alternative, Reuters reports. Mexico City's newly-elected mayor Marcelo Ebrard has decided to purge the city's mean streets by dishing out cash or a free Xbox for every handgun, while anyone surrendering a heavy …

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Mark_T

Badges? weee don need no steeenkin badges !

Would it be churlish of me to point out that a machine gun can very likely be purchased for considerably less than $769 ?

So, buy a machine gun, have the coppers upgrade it to a PC, pop it on Ebay and get....

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Now that's forward planning..

..get their guns off them BEFORE you give them Vista.

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

A better trade.

I am traveling to Mexico to offer gun's for X-Boxes.

Hein Kruger

why give up the gun?

It doesn't make sense. Surely a gangster with a machine gun would be able to help himself to as many PCs and Xboxes as he wants, without having to give up the machine gun. I thought that's why criminals have guns in the first place?

Dean

cyber theft

Now they can track their whole cocain inventory by computer

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