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Dubai police have confirmed they uncovered a gang of dealers who were selling electric stun gun kits, for up to £5,000, across the region. These were then being fitted inside the robot jockeys, which cost between £130-£200, that in recent years have largely replaced child jockeys, traditionally used in camel racing, due to humanitarian concerns. The electric shocks could be administered by remote control to encourage the camel to run faster.

You read that right- robotic camel jockeys have been illegally enhanced to make the camels perform better. There’s a sentence that would have been science fictional a decade ago, and incomprehensible a century ago.

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