Dogs to sniff out loud pipes?
Law enforcement agencies may have found their secret weapon against motorcycle noise, and the answer comes on four legs. Or does it?We have trawled through most of the 2011 April Fools’ gags with a motorcycle twist, and for us one stands out like a beacon.
It’s courtesy of US-based website Clutch & Chrome, whose ‘exclusive’ yarn detailed how Kanine Kings, a company in Arizona which supplies drug-sniffing dogs to law agencies all over the world, announced it can effectively produce dogs that will react to specific loud noises such as those produced by what many call ‘loud pipes’.
”Just as the court system recognizes the legality of searching a suspect when a trained dog detects drugs,” noted legal expert Lawdon Suit was quoted as saying by C & C. “There isn’t much work to be done to set the bar to allow the same for a dog to alert law officials to suspected loud pipes.”
And the owner of Kanine Kings, Dale Collie, also had his say: “There are several standards of how much is too much noise when it comes to motorcycle exhaust systems.
“Once the canine is trained, it’s embedded for the rest of its life, so we have to make sure we have the correct noise amount to train to.
“I don’t foresee any canines trained to detect loud pipes on the streets before April 1 of next year,” Collie said with a smile, “but then bikers better beware.”
And an ‘unnamed’ mayor in a small New Hampshire town also chimed in: “Depending on the cost of the trained canines this could prove a cost effective method of bringing in much needed revenues.”
And, finally, the AMA is still talking to its legal counsel about what its official response will be.
Brilliant.
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