Setting the Bar

Reason Staff | 8.28.2009 6:03 AM

Police in Guangzhou, China, now demand the fingerprints, a DNA sample, and a handwriting sample from anyone wishing to work in a bar or night club. The city already has some 3 million fingerprints on file and about 300,000 DNA samples.

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