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March 4, 2006

we are all ambassadors

The local paper here is carrying a somewhat embarrassing tale about one of the England fans who made it down to Nagpur. According to the paper, the Brit Abroad in question (who was named in that publication but won’t be here) went to a local restaurant in the evening and got nicely drunk.

He then staggered back to his hotel (or he might have got a taxi, I don’t know. Maybe someone carried him? The paper’s a bit sketchy on this sort of detail if I’m honest). Once there he realised he no longer had his camera with him and so returned to the restaurant to find it (by rickshaw perhaps? Again, it doesn’t say). It was not where he thought he’d left it and so he accused two staff members of staff of stealing it and called in the police before once again returning to his hotel (Bus? Not sure).

Fast forward two days and the man in question happened upon his missing camera in, as the paper tells us, “the pocket of his bermuda”. By this time the two restaurant staff had been arrested and taken to court, so the man had to get there as soon as possible (motorbike? It’s a possibility).

At court he signed an affidavit saying that the two restaurant staff definitely hadn’t stolen his camera , and they were granted bail. In a further twist the man’s camera was then confiscated for further investigation, although quite how much further it could go is anyone’s guess.

As for the Brit, I’ve no idea how he’ll feel by the time he gets home but I do know that’ll probably have got there by plane.

Posted by Miles.Jupp at March 4, 2006 10:10 AM