It's a great idea -- collecting important information about your children in the horrible event they go missing, or worse. You'll have instant, one-stop access to a CD filled with a digital photo and digital fingerprints, as well as a cast of their teeth and saliva for DNA testing. "You hope you never have to use it, but if you do, it's there and you're glad that you have it," said David Gallagher, a program organizer
The name of this powerful crime-fighting tool? MOCHIP. MOCHIP? It sounds like something I can order at the ice cream parlor. And why, please tell me, is this program run by the Freemasons and not, I don't know, cops? The Missouri Freemasons are running around trying to collect information about the state's children in the event of an emergency, claiming they don't actually retain the information themselves. Where's Agent Mulder when you need him?
Jokes aside, it's not sinister. MOCHIP is the Missouri form of a national Masonic Chip that says it has been recognized by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (I searched that site and couldn't find mention of masonic or chip, but details, details). It's still a good idea. One I wish no one had to think about, which is why it's easier to joke about it. But a good idea nonetheless. Are you prepared for the unthinkable?
