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WEIRD BUT TRUE

Shyness adds lot of hot air the chief ticket inspector

at Fart competition in Gujarat of the Jabalpur division
of West Central Railway,
confirmed the incident.
A ‘FART COMPETITION’ held on November 17 in Virha, who boarded the
Gujarat’s Surat, touted as the country’s first, turned out train around 5am on
to be a lot of hot air, though not literally, as only three November 14, reportedly
participants managed to said, “When I entered the
overcome shyness and coach, passengers briefed
inhibitions to take a shot me about the heated
at the three trophies on argument. Ramchandra
offer. They too, however, said he was persuaded
failed to pass muster after by fellow passengers not to sleep for some time. “I sought
being unable to pass wind, to know whether the passenger (Ramchandra) wanted to
an organiser said. lodge a complaint if he felt victimised or offended but he
While sixty people replied in the negative.”
had registered to display
their prowess in letting
out “longest”, “loudest”
and “most musical” farts at a banquet hall in Vesu area,
only twenty turned up, said organiser Yatin Sangoi. Of Top police official mastermind
these, only three took to the stage, in front of 70 people in behind series of ATM robberies
attendance along with a few media channels, and ended
up failing to “perform”, said Sangoi. A TOP INVESTIGATOR from Delhi Police’s crime
branch has been named in the case of a series of ATM
robberies across India as another suspect has named him
as the ‘mastermind’ of the entire operation, a media report
Snorer forced to stay awake as has pointed out.
A special investigation team of the Kerala police
punishment during rail journey recently arrested a 37-year-old suspect, Suresh, who
confessed that noted cop Aslup Khan and his ‘gang’ were
A PASSENGER who snored loudly on a long-distance involved in a series of ATM robberies. He claimed that he
train was forced to stay awake as punishment by a knew Khan as he was one of his informers, the report said.
group of fellow passengers whose sleep was disrupted. Suresh, who claimed that
A railway official said the punished man, identified his role was to ‘scout’ for
only as Ramchandra, did not press charges and the ‘lucrative’ ATMs in Kerala
passengers dispersed as friends. Doctors said the incident for future robberies, gave
signalled an underlying medical disorder that has long further details such as the
been overlooked in India. The punishment unfolded last frequency with which they
week in in a AC three-tier coach of LTT-Darbhanga changed their vehicles’
Pawan Express when passengers decided not to let number plates, the care
Ramachandra sleep so that they could catch up with their with which they ‘managed’
sleep. A heated argument took place but Ramchandra mobile phones and the
eventually stayed awake five to six hours. Ganesh S Virha, hotels they stayed in.

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