September 05, 2006

Burly, sleepy, unstuck

Three extracts below, from newspaper reports. Two are made up. One is not; it was taken from a September 3 front page.

Which is which? Don't Google.

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When [the] Inspector General of Police [of Lahore] received a hot tip about a village called Mini Hindustan ... he did not waste time. Within hours a team of burly cops stormed the sleepy village in search of "terrorist suspects." The men expected locals in dhotis and saris, a temple and [a] link to India.

The stereotype quickly came unstuck when [the] men found the 20-odd homes in Mini Hindustan inhabited by Muslim farmers and fisherfolk.

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When [the] Inspector General of Police [of Maharashtra] received a hot tip about a village called Pakistan Pada ... he did not waste time. Within hours a team of burly cops stormed the sleepy village in search of "terrorist suspects." The men expected locals in beards and skull-caps, a mosque and a madrassa, and [a] link to Pakistan.

The stereotype quickly came unstuck when [the] men found the 20-odd homes in Pakistan Pada inhabited by Hindu farmers and fisherfolk.

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When [the] Inspector General of Police [of Belfast] received a hot tip about a village called Sinn Fein Hamlet ... he did not waste time. Within hours a team of burly cops stormed the sleepy village in search of "terrorist suspects." The men expected to find followers of the Pope with typically Irish names, Catholic churches and [a] link to the IRA.

The stereotype quickly came unstuck when [the] men found the 20-odd homes in Sinn Fein Hamlet inhabited by Protestant farmers and fisherfolk.

3 comments:

Bombay Addict said...

The first is made-up and the second came on the front page of either HT or TOI, which then implies that the third one is for real as well.

What ? no prize ?

Anonymous said...

BA - what? You fell for the third?

Rahul

Bombay Addict said...

Eesh.

Rahul - I didn't fall for the third. In my hurry to win the non-existent prize, I thought D3 meant two were real. Gaah.