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14:30 January 23rd, 2009

Old news…

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They are already married, and have two kids together. They got married August 25, 2001. So in the future, maybe you can clear your information before writing such nonsense…..

Bente

Your screw-up has already been commented on the frontpage of second largest Norwegian newspaper.

M.A.

We got more feedback on this than anything else this week. We accidentally issued a very old story. We sent out an advisory killing the story, but unfortunately it ended up getting used a few places online: GBU Editor

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The story reported so very recently recalls one back to mind which was in the Seattle Times about 1970.
A young man jaywalked before a police car. He had no id, and was being written a ticket. The man gave his name, and then his address. The policeman asked him to repeat it, and then told the man to get in the car.
The young man asked him why. The policeman told him he was being arrested for giving false information, as the address given was his home address.
This is what I call, “Psychic backfire”.

Thief caught out giving policeman’s address
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Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Wed Jan 21, 12:18 pm ETBERLIN (Reuters) – A German teen-ager caught shoplifting tried to dupe police by lying about where he lived — but ended up in even more trouble when the address he gave turned out to be the home of an investigating officer.

The 18-year-old from Achim, a town of 30,000 in northern Germany, admitted he had lied when the officer explained that the address belonged to him, said police in nearby Verden.

“It was complete coincidence,” said a police spokesman. “The thief gave that address because he’d once lived in the house. The policeman was the guy who moved in afterwards.”

(Reporting by Dave Graham; editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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