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Give me your guns, Mexico...and get an XBox
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Mexico tries swapping guns for XBoxes
MEXICO CITY--Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and Xbox video game consoles.
Launching the program on Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed last month, city police chief Joel Ortega said anyone who turns in a high-caliber weapon like a machine gun will get a computer.
Owners can swap smaller guns for cash or Microsoft's Xbox video game consoles under the plan.
Newly elected Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has moved quickly to restore order to the chaotic capital by going after well-known crime dens and clearing the city's narrow streets of informal vendors whose stalls have blocked sidewalks for years.
Organizers say they have 100 computers ready for the first wave of the program, each worth 8,500 pesos ($769) and equipped with software donated by Microsoft. On the first day, Olayo said the city received 17 guns, including 12 from Tepito.
If successful, the program will be extended to Iztapalapa, another area targeted by police where last week 800 officers expropriated a six-block neighborhood filled with stores selling parts torn from stolen cars.
Guns that are handed over will be destroyed by the army. The city promised to protect their owners' anonymity.
That's it. This must be the answer to crime in Mexico. They might as well disband the police departments. Yesterday's gun-toting gangster is tomorrow's super hacker geek.
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54 
Yesterday's gun-toting gangster is tomorrow's super hacker geek, mang.
 hehhehehe.
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Watch for a sudden rise in gun thefts.
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Wonder if they get Halo with that Xbox
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I wonder when someone is going to use their gun to hold the place up and steal all the xboxes? 
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Sounds like a good idea. Maybe teens will start stealing their druglord parents guns and turn them in also 
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Originally Posted by mdc
I wonder when someone is going to use their gun to hold the place up and steal all the xboxes?
As soon as I can give my cousin, Jorge, a call...
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Now they can pwn noobs virtually.
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I'm moving to Mexico and getting me some guns.
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Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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