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[theveed]

Sniffer dogs Lucky & Flo debut in Manila

By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 16, 1:25 PM ET

The canine versions of Starsky and Hutch have arrived in Manila, where they sniffed through locked steel doors, pointing authorities to stacks of pirated movies during a mall raid Monday.

Fresh from a successful one-month stint in Malaysia, where they angered movie pirates by helping authorities uncover 1.3 million discs and burners worth about $3.3 million, Lucky and Flo are now training their noses on the Philippines.

Nervous stall owners scurried away or locked themselves behind steel shutters when the two Labradors, trained in Ireland to detect optical discs, led government agents and representatives of the Motion Picture Association-International through the Makati Cinema Square mall.

The two female dogs — wearing neon vests stamped with their names — sniffed through glass cabinets, bags and boxes. The pirated discs they found included recent releases such as "300" as well as "Borat" and "Apocalypto."

In the first hour alone, Edu Manzano, chairman of the Philippine government's Optical Media Board, said they seized at least 300,000 pirated discs and arrested 11 people, who face charges of copyright infringement and violation of anti-****ography laws.

Neil Gane, MPA-International senior director of operations, said movie pirates in Malaysia have reportedly offered a $14,286 bounty on each of the dogs, whose weekend arrival in Manila was kept secret until Monday's raid.

He said he hopes Lucky and Flo — who sit or freeze when they sniff polycarbonate, used to manufacture optical discs — would escape such wrath in the Philippines.

"Lucky and Flo will be here for a considerable amount of time and we will be going all over Manila, and we are also contemplating going all over the Philippines," Manzano said.

"As you can see, the dogs have been very, very effective."

Manzano said his office is considering its own canine unit because of Lucky and Flo's success.

"They are the Starsky and Hutch of the Motion Picture Association," said the dogs' trainer, David Mayberry, a Northern Ireland senior investigator of the Federation Against Copyright Theft.

The TV buddy cop series "Starsky and Hutch" aired in the U.S. in the 1970s, with Paul Michael Glaser starring as Dave Starsky and David Soul as Ken Hutchinson.

Manzano thanked the MPA for bringing the dogs to confiscate not only pirated copies of Hollywood movies but also child ****ography and Filipino, Korean and Japanese films.

Gane said an MPA survey last year showed its member companies lost $1.2 billion to pirates in the Asia-Pacific region and $6.1 billion globally.

Holding several discs and pointing to similar logos on their plastic covers, Gane said makers of pirated "Cinderella III" discs are the same ones churning out child ****.

[BlueBimmer]

haha kita ko to sa tvpatrol a few days ago, nagtago pa mga tindera sa loob ng locked store, sinira ang rollup/rolldown curtain hehe

[claRkEnt]

One of the canine's name is Lucky! coincidence ba yan na anak ni Edu si Lucky!

[Horsepower]

Picking on innocent dogs. These pirates should be burned alive!

[GerardTagayty]

Picking on innocent dogs. These pirates should be burned alive!

WORD!!

[zero]

nabasa ko nga sa newspaper (inquirer) dati na may reward na $1M ang malaysian pirates sa makakapatay diyan kanila lucky and flo.

dapat siguro, sa china sila pumunta dahil dun ginagawa ang mga 8-in-1 dvds.

[oldblue]

uy release na ang 300 and apocalypto

i wonder if these dogs can sniff burned DVDR copies too

[Jun aka Pekto]

Can they differentiate between a burned legit data or vacation movie disc from a pirated DVD? If I miss my flight because of them, I'm going to kick those dogs.

But if they can, then good doggies.

[chua_riwap]

Publicity stunt lang yan......Lumusob na sila sa MCS, eh di lie low na muna yung mga nasa Quiapo (Raon/Muslim Area) at sa Greenhills. Tago muna yung mga "kalakal", para walang "maamoy" yung mga aso. He-he! Tapos tuloy ang ligaya, pag wala na sina Lucky at Flo. Wala rin!

Mali ata diskarte ni Edu.......

[Zeus]

Sniffer dogs Lucky & Flo debut in Manila

By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 16, 1:25 PM ET

The canine versions of Starsky and Hutch have arrived in Manila, where they sniffed through locked steel doors, pointing authorities to stacks of pirated movies during a mall raid Monday.

Fresh from a successful one-month stint in Malaysia, where they angered movie pirates by helping authorities uncover 1.3 million discs and burners worth about $3.3 million, Lucky and Flo are now training their noses on the Philippines.

Nervous stall owners scurried away or locked themselves behind steel shutters when the two Labradors, trained in Ireland to detect optical discs, led government agents and representatives of the Motion Picture Association-International through the Makati Cinema Square mall.

The two female dogs — wearing neon vests stamped with their names — sniffed through glass cabinets, bags and boxes. The pirated discs they found included recent releases such as "300" as well as "Borat" and "Apocalypto."

In the first hour alone, Edu Manzano, chairman of the Philippine government's Optical Media Board, said they seized at least 300,000 pirated discs and arrested 11 people, who face charges of copyright infringement and violation of anti-****ography laws.

Neil Gane, MPA-International senior director of operations, said movie pirates in Malaysia have reportedly offered a $14,286 bounty on each of the dogs, whose weekend arrival in Manila was kept secret until Monday's raid.

He said he hopes Lucky and Flo — who sit or freeze when they sniff polycarbonate, used to manufacture optical discs — would escape such wrath in the Philippines.

"Lucky and Flo will be here for a considerable amount of time and we will be going all over Manila, and we are also contemplating going all over the Philippines," Manzano said.

"As you can see, the dogs have been very, very effective."

Manzano said his office is considering its own canine unit because of Lucky and Flo's success.

"They are the Starsky and Hutch of the Motion Picture Association," said the dogs' trainer, David Mayberry, a Northern Ireland senior investigator of the Federation Against Copyright Theft.

The TV buddy cop series "Starsky and Hutch" aired in the U.S. in the 1970s, with Paul Michael Glaser starring as Dave Starsky and David Soul as Ken Hutchinson.

Manzano thanked the MPA for bringing the dogs to confiscate not only pirated copies of Hollywood movies but also child ****ography and Filipino, Korean and Japanese films.

Gane said an MPA survey last year showed its member companies lost $1.2 billion to pirates in the Asia-Pacific region and $6.1 billion globally.

Holding several discs and pointing to similar logos on their plastic covers, Gane said makers of pirated "Cinderella III" discs are the same ones churning out child ****.

Napanood ko rin yan sa Tv Patrol e galing ng mga sniffing dogs