Once Upon a Time in the West ... Cacti Had to Be Microchipped to Stop Them Being Stolen

The Scotsman › October 09, 2008

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THEY provided the majestic backdrop to countless westerns and were the prickly foe of the Road Runner's adversary, Wile E Coyote.

Now the saguaro cactus has become so popular with thieves in Arizona that the giant plants are to be fitted with electronic security chips.

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Once Upon a Time in the West ... Cacti Had to Be Microchipped to Stop Them Being Stolen

The sharp needles that form the cacti's natural defences are not enough to ward off enterprising criminals who dig up prize specimens, selling them for GBP 500 to garden nurseries, landscape...

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