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From its Texas Rangers to its enthusiastic take on the death penalty, the Lone Star State has long been known for its aggressive stance on law enforcement. Thanks to a strange new law, it’s a sting that may soon be felt by a number of the state’s computer-repair people.

A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians have a private-investigator license, according to a story posted by a Dallas-Fort Worth CW affiliate.

In order to obtain said license, technicians must receive a criminal justice degree or participate in a three-year apprenticeship. Those shops that refuse to participate will be forced to shut down. Violators of the new law can be hit with a $4,000 dollar fine and up to a year in jail, penalties that apply to customers who seek out their services.

Some of the area’s larger companies already employee technicians with PI licenses, a fact which generally doesn’t apply to small computer repair shops.

EDIT 7/1/2008: Tod Beardsley takes issue with the fact that we have not included the source document for this post. We’ve since added it in the first paragraph, found via the Post Process Web site.

Det er jo ikke umulig at dette kan være en plantet historie på nettet så jeg går ikke god for sannheten i dette, men det forundrer meg ikke når du ser alle de rare lovene som innføres i USA.