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Absa Bank in South Africa equips ATMs with pepper spray

July 13, 2009

Wired: Absa Bank in South Africa has outfitted its ATMs with pepper spray to prevent criminals from bombing or tampering with the machines. But the system still has some bugs: One of the machines released its stinging payload on three maintenance workers last week. If a camera on the machine detects someone tampering with the card slot, a mechanism installed at the ATM releases a cloudspray.

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