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Stupid reporters

Following on from the Aussie moron who created chaos on a US airlines flight we've managed to track down people who, if possible, are even more stupid.

It's true, these guys take the cake for being so monumentally stupid they deserve whatever comes to them.

Now, they happen to be reporters. Okay, there are some pretty clever journalists around, but these guys happen to part of the ever-increasing mass of cretins who are joining the ranks of "the protectors of the public".

One is a French correspondent for Paris Match and two others are Pakistani chaps. They were caught trying to sneak illegally into Afghanistan.

Good thinking guys, six million Afghans are fleeing the hell hole and you are trying to get in!?!

Anyway, being obvious dills, they were quickly discovered, grabbed by the Talibans (a very nasty to thing to have happen) and have been humiliated by being paraded through the streets of Jalalabad dressed in full-length women's clothing.

Okay, you say, big deal. But the good part is next. While they are doing their Les Girls routine down the road they are being stoned. Now that's nothing to do with wacky-backy, weed, or whatever it's called these days, it's more being stoned with decent-sized hunks of granite.

If they are lucky they'll only face a Taliban trial for spying, because the mobs want them handed over to their particular brand of justice - which may include torture, beatings and a very sticky end.

Mind you, the old Talibans are not that gentle with spies so maybe these guys are completely rooted already.

The moral of the story is that if you are so desperate to be in the action, you need to make damn sure you are not part of the action. If they live, I bet the next assignment they cover will be from an air-conditioned bar and the info will be from CNN.

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