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Mixed up stories

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The tale of a bungling World Cup ticket thief who got his just desserts turned out to be an accidental invention of the German police says, a Reuters report. Munich police had released a statement about the "audacious thief" who snatched a woman's handbag, found the ticket inside and sat down to watch Brazil play Australia _ only to find himself next to her husband, who alerted the police.

But later, a police spokesman said the statement had mixed up two different cases _ one of which did involve a Brazilian woman having her handbag and ticket stolen _ and the encounter between thief and husband never took place. "It was a mistake...In the course of the investigation we realised we had mixed up things that didn't belong together," he said.

COMPLIED BY NIMI KURIAN

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