Johannesburg turns to alarms and SMS alerts to curb tombstone thefts

Tombstone thieves in Johannesburg, South Africa have had no trouble sneaking by security guards, so cemeteries have begun looking to a new solution: embedded security chips that will sound an alarm if a tombstone is moved, reports the Associated Press. "We place a transmitter unit into the tombstone, so that it is not visible or accessible," Mark Pringle, director of the city's first approved alarm manufacturer, Memorial Alert, tells the AP. "Any unauthorized tampering activates a number of al...