Burglars have had their chips

Fresh from its success working on the Tesco Clubcard and the Labour Party’s recruitment drive, direct marketing agency Evans Scott Hunt has just set a new record. Last week, computer bandits broke into the company’s offices in Soho Square and escaped with 130,000 worth of computer chips. This, according to Inspector Knacker, is the biggest computer chip heist to take place in London. In the US, where such crimes are commonplace, new measures are being taken. Computers are being booby-trapped with smoke bombs – some even squirt blue ink over anyone trying to tamper with the backs of the computers.

But it is unlikely that the mild-mannered direct marketers at EHS will ever adopt a new computer pro-tection device apparently being tested in the US. It sprays machine-gun fire at the would-be burglars.