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Indian army 'mistook planets for spy drones'

India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23455128

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Reply 1
Im imagining them sending up a jet to get near the drone, then realising its millions of miles away.
This is probably worse than the time they interrogated a pigeon from Pakistan, thinking it was a spy :biggrin:
Reply 3
Original post by de_monies
This is probably worse than the time they interrogated a pigeon from Pakistan, thinking it was a spy :biggrin:

Haha yeah that was terrible.
Original post by Phantom Lord
Haha yeah that was terrible.


See I wanna post this on my fb but it might annoy some Indian people, and I can't think of any thing that Pakistan has done that is on the same sort of page in return :biggrin: ie: to try and "justify" my status

Original post by Apocrypha
Im imagining them sending up a jet to get near the drone, then realising its millions of miles away.


The only parallel I can think of is when the Roman emperor Caligula was so crazy that he declared war with Poseidon, God of the sea, by stabbing it :biggrin:
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Original post by de_monies
This is probably worse than the time they interrogated a pigeon from Pakistan, thinking it was a spy :biggrin:


Link pls
Original post by IdeasForLife
Link pls


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7778734/Pigeon-held-in-India-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-Pakistan.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/PfHuIuNCGlM

I think "Mock the week" or "HIGNFY" did a piece on it as well.I think it was a simple homing pigeon as well

Reading the article on Tribune PK just gets funnier. The pigeon was kept in an air conditioned room. Well at least it was kept humanely :biggrin:

This pic just makes me laugh:

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Reply 7
Portugal must be feeling real embarrassed now. They lost a war to these guys in the 60s
Reply 8
lol, pigeon, lol.
Reply 9
Based on these two stories I think I could singlehandedly mount an invasion of India.
Reply 10
They once published a picture of Pakistan Air Marshall in one of their government ads lol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8478088.stm
The arrested goat still takes the cake for me.. but this is pretty funny!
Reply 12
Original post by J_Dilla
Based on these two stories I think I could singlehandedly mount an invasion of India.


lol and these Indians call us Pakistanis stupid lol
Original post by de_monies
This is probably worse than the time they interrogated a pigeon from Pakistan, thinking it was a spy :biggrin:


No, I think the pigeon incident was definitely more embarrassing than this.
Reply 15
Original post by Savvy Sage
The arrested goat still takes the cake for me.. but this is pretty funny!


LOL yeah that was tooooo funny!
Reply 16
Lol, how have I not heard of any of this?! ::lolwut:


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Reply 17
Original post by Savvy Sage
The arrested goat still takes the cake for me.. but this is pretty funny!


Link? :colone:


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Don't forget the monkey hanged in Hartlepool because they thought it was a Frenchman...
Original post by Savvy Sage
The arrested goat still takes the cake for me.. but this is pretty funny!


They arrested a goat?

Original post by Phantom Lord
Here


Thanks

Original post by Dima-Blackburn
No, I think the pigeon incident was definitely more embarrassing than this.


Hmm the more I read it, the more I agree. Though at least they didn't send any anti drone equipment and send them off to Jupiter :biggrin:

Original post by marcusfox
Don't forget the monkey hanged in Hartlepool because they thought it was a Frenchman...


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