Anyone who's ever had the simultaneous pleasure and horror of reading "Lords of Chaos" knows that Norway can be a dangerous place; all those black-metal bands running around with giant Viking axes. Apparently there's been an infant-napping epidemic as well. That's why hospitals there will be equipping newborn babies with anti-theft alarms.

"The main reason is that we want to emphasize security," Erik Normann, head of the Akershus University Hospital near Oslo told the Associated Press. "There was a period in which Norway experienced several infant kidnappings and that is something we want to avoid."

Hospital attendants will attach a bracelet to infants' ankles that contains a small chip. Another chipped bracelet is attached to the wrist of the mother. When the two bracelets are separated by a large enough distance, an alarm sounds. If someone tries to remove the bracelet from the baby or remove the baby from the hospital, the ward's doors will automatically lock and the elevators shut down--perhaps not the safest move in a hospital, but they do things a little differently in Scandinavia.

We've already seen these sorts of chips rolled out for kids and Alzheimer patients.