Qatar to replace camel riders with robots

Sometimes, when you think you have seen it all, just relax, sit back and wait. Something new will come along that you just have never seen.

Qatar to replace camel riders with robots? What? I always thought a camel jockey was some type of generic racial slur. Turns out there really are camel jockey's and people really do race camels. Only in an Islamic nation I guess. Go figure.

Cover up your women, don't give them rights, suppress anything that is good and free as evil, then race a friggin camel. These guys are geniuses in my book.

So if that is not bad enough, they are now going to use robotic jockeys only, to minimize the slave trade that goes on in these hideously nice muslim nations. (Yeah right). Apparently the "jockeys" that ride the camels are typically 4 year olds that were bought from their parents.

Anyway, the whole disturbingly true story can be seen here:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/20/robot.jockeys.ap/index.html