July 15, 2008
Microchip Turns Up Lost Dog After 5 Years
Remember the old days when dogs would bolt from the car during a road trip, only to follow their uncanny sense of direction to find their way home across hundreds of miles? Thanks to microchip implants, today’s 21st century canine can now rely on technology to do the work. That’s how Rocco, a beagle who disappeared from a Queens backyard in 2003, was located and returned to his owners last weekend after being found in Georgia! Now if the government would just start implanting these chips in humans, stories like these would be a thing of the past.
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Microchipping is also surprisingly cheap, about $45 IRRC. Though maintaining your dog in the registry is a yearly drain of like $15.
Now if I could only put a homing beacon on my car keys.
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Maybe he didn't want to go back.
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That's what I want...a chip that tells the government where I am all the time...maybe an implant that even lets them know what I'm reading, eating, or watching on tv...
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Yes, because the government cares that you're eating a cheeseburger in front of Family Guy reruns. Eureka.
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@robingee
well, they clearly care about what you're saying over the phone. who's to say they wouldn't want to know more? big brother is watching, listening, monitoring . . .
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I had my dog chipped for free at the shelter I adopted him from. And they only charged $15 for a lifetime registration.
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#5 - Would a chip in a human secretly be monitoring anything except global positioning, for the purpose of finding a missing person?
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@robingee
um, that's the whole point - who's to say? ever heard of a dystopia? 1984? brave new world? a chip implanted in humans evokes emotions of an unseen overseer, even if there weren't alterior motives. remain vigilant. and yes, for the most part, i'm not being entirely serious here.
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And people keep dismissing the fact that we are heading towards an Orwellian state, keep thinking it's just a 'conspiracy theory.'
Meanwhile the government will microchip the population next.
Microchips will make you interact with the upcoming cashless society.
Who in the world would have though 10 years ago that the world is literally turning into this surreal Orwellian Dystopia?
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Well for missing people, a murderer or anyone with devious intent could easily cut the chip out of the victim.
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Anyway, this is a great story, Orwellian distopia aside.