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Wow! Maybe we can get some of those things to replace the Egyptian bus 
drivers!! That's a decent price.


Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com

On Oct 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Well...how's this for a quick response to accusations? I put in a 
> Google search on Camel Jockey Abuse and this was the first thing that 
> came up:
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> Qatar officially switches to robotic camel-jockeys in 2005
> Posted Oct 19, 2004, 12:45 PM ET by Ryan Block
> Related entries: Robots
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> To fend of accusations of child camel-jockey abuse by international 
> human rights groups (which we reported on earlier), Qatar has 
> announced they will be officially substituting robots in camel races 
> in 2005 and beyond. Approximately 1.37 million dollars was spent 
> developing the robots (why, we can?t tell; they just receive input for 
> handling the reigns wirelessly) for mass production, which will cost 
> roughly $5,500 apiece; however, for now only 100 will be purchased, 
> meaning the Swiss company producing them immediately takes a loss of 
> about $820,000 unless they get selling these things fast. So please, 
> for the future of tomorrow?s child camel-jockey, would you all please 
> buy one of these robots for camel races of your own?
>
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