{"id":5580,"date":"2007-05-28T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2007-05-28T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T05:49:00","slug":"that-bomb-was-lunch-the-hyderabad-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/that-bomb-was-lunch-the-hyderabad-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"That bomb was lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the post in which I expressed incredulity<\/a> about the supposed bomb disposal squad in Hyderabad not wearing any protective clothing at all? Well, CNN-IBN reveals<\/a> why that was so. The bomb they were defusing wasn’t a bomb at all, but “a tiffin-box full of rice.” It appears to have been a hoax, to make the cops look good, and we are told that “[t]he four police officials involved in the drama are likely to face action.”<\/p>\n

The cops, of course, do plenty of things to make themselves look good. At least there was no human cost involved here.<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the post in which I expressed incredulity<\/a> about the supposed bomb disposal squad in Hyderabad not wearing any protective clothing at all? Well, CNN-IBN reveals<\/a> why that was so. The bomb they were defusing wasn’t a bomb at all, but “a tiffin-box full of rice.” It appears to have been a hoax, to make the cops look good, and we are told that “[t]he four police officials involved in the drama are likely to face action.”<\/p>\n

The cops, of course, do plenty of things to make themselves look good. At least there was no human cost involved here.<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThat bomb was lunch - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/that-bomb-was-lunch-the-hyderabad-hoax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"That bomb was lunch - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remember the post in which I expressed incredulity about the supposed bomb disposal squad in Hyderabad not wearing any protective clothing at all? Well, CNN-IBN reveals why that was so. 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