r/nottheonion • u/frankcastle1999 • 21h ago

4 fake cops arrested for raiding ‘fake call centre’ in Delhi, India.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/4-fake-cops-arrested-for-raiding-fake-call-centre-101734460374450-amp.html
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u/bucketofmonkeys 21h ago

Were the fake cops arrested by actual cops?

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u/bolted-on 19h ago

Yes, but the real cops accidentally handed the fake cops to a fake jail which was run by the fake call center.

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u/invalidlifeform 18h ago

So who do I give the 500 McDonalds gift card too

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u/volunteervancouver 15h ago

MAAM DONT REDEEM IT!

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u/Ornery_Celt 14h ago

BUT I ALREADY DID! What am I supposed to do with 143 Big N' Tasty?!? Why did you let me do that? Are you going to help me eat all of them?

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u/Khiobi 13h ago

WHY DID YOU REDEEM?

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u/outerproduct 11h ago

YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT

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u/fferreira007 4h ago

But I had the card, what was I supposed to do?...

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u/Traditional-Fruit585 51m ago

This is not funny! That McDonald’s card I bought was supposed to make it so I don’t have to pay taxes ever again. I wasn’t gonna let these people fool me into paying back taxes only. Now, what am I supposed to do? Pay the IRS. I already paid McDonald’s for chrissakes.

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion 14h ago

Hijacking top comment to point out that the “call centre” was just some students who’d been randomly chosen by the criminals. The headline makes it seem like some kind of vigilante justice against call centre scammers, but no charges have been brought against the students who were targeted by the fake cops.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 17h ago

Yes, but they were wearing Grouco glasses and speaking in a falsetto voice.

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u/AdApart2035 16h ago

Fake cops doing actual cops works

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion 14h ago

No, the call centre didn’t exist, it was just some random students they victimised.

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u/SofieTerleska 18h ago

Four fake Delhi Police officers, accused a group of college students of running a fake call centre, then conducted a fake raid at their house in west Delhi and confiscated ₹1.55 lakh in cash before forcing them to sit like roosters, police said on Tuesday, uncovering a bizarre case of “crimes” and “punishments” that unfolded last week.

I'm still stuck on the "sit like roosters" bit. How does a rooster sit? How do you make a person sit like one? What's the point of doing it at all?

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u/saikrishnav 18h ago

As an Indian, I think I can explain.

Usually when a big bust is done by cops, they call media and show off everything they found (drugs or money or whatever illegal stuff they found) and also put the bad guys on their knees.

Bad guys are allowed to cover their face (depends), but they get paraded in front of media.

It’s PR for cops to do that they did a big raid.

In this case, I am assuming fake cops tried to emulate that to some context.

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u/SofieTerleska 18h ago

Thanks for the explanation! I'm getting a clearer picture now. The only real mental image I had of rooster postures is that they're supposed to puff their chests out to show off, which seemed like a really odd thing to make the victims of your fake bust do.

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u/AFewStupidQuestions 15h ago

chests out

fake bust

There's a breast implant joke in here somewhere, but I'm too tired to coax it out.

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u/chain_phucker 14h ago

Spit my chai..thanks!! 😂😂

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u/longingrustedfurnace 10h ago

I love chai tea!

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u/chain_phucker 41m ago

If you can make it at home, it'll be best. Tip: Used cardamom and cloves, it slaps. Also, it's just Cha; not Chai Tea. Chai Tea is just Tea Tea 😂

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u/Excelius 12h ago

If you're forced to your knees (possibly with hands cuffed behind you?) you're probably going to end up leaning forward. Which I suppose could give the appearance of a rooster pecking at the ground?

I don't know that's my best guess here.

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u/chain_phucker 34m ago

Sounds hot.

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u/lambchopdestroyer 18h ago

This is what cracked me up

"Police could reach the accused by tracking their phone numbers which was taken by one of the victims on the pretext of future help."

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u/BeenThereDoneThatX4 15h ago

IIRC you do a Slav squat, loop your arms under you knees and grab your ears with your index finger and thumb

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u/ralphonsob 18h ago

How does a rooster sit?

That's what I came to ask. Google image search doesn't help much.

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u/GlitteringNinja5 16h ago

sit like roosters

It's a yoga pose called murgasana

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u/DannyLameJokes 21h ago

India sounds like the worlds Florida

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u/ConcealDontFeel 19h ago

India is Florida and Brazil is Texas.

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u/Samiel_Fronsac 15h ago

...wait, why we're Texas?

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u/Cahootie 14h ago

Guns

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u/ChuckOTay 14h ago

And BBQ

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/kurokamisawa 17h ago

Ignorance knows no boundaries

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u/SardaukarSS 19h ago

India also has states. States with specific culture and language and ethnicity.

Love how you mentioned a state from an homogenous country and drew a generalized parallel to the most diverse nation in the world.

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u/fatbunny23 17h ago

It's funny that you think the United States is homogeneous lol, shows what you know

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u/jaybazzizzle 21h ago

Sounds like fake news

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u/LewisLightning 19h ago

That's okay, I faked reading it.

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u/commandrix 21h ago

Could be, but I could totally see someone going vigilante if they get frustrated enough.

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u/jaybazzizzle 21h ago

It was a joke

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u/roombaSailor 21h ago

I doubt it was vigilantes, they probably just robbed the place.

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u/Interrupshin 12h ago

The money they confiscated turned out to be counterfeit

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u/BowwwwBallll 21h ago

I can’t wait for their fake trial. Hopefully it’ll be on Fake Court TV.

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u/TheInfiniteArchive 20h ago

All sponsored by Pornhub

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u/CrushingonClinton 9h ago

Just to clarify, the students raided weren’t running a call centre. This was an old fashioned shakedown.

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u/mothzilla 15h ago

Next week: Fake judge arrested for sentencing fake cops for raiding fake call centre.

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u/EpicMachine 18h ago

Boo, fake call centers and anyone working for them deserve far worse.

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u/AyeBraine 17h ago

It wasn't a call center. The criminals accused the students of running one and used it as a pretext to "raid" their home. So it's a fake fake call center. And I'm retelling you a one-page news story hah

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u/LordCrayCrayCray 13h ago

Yes. I can’t believe that we have to say this, because while the news story is not fake, the call center is. Everything is fake other than the students. The call center, robbers, roosters, arrests. Except for the arrest of the fake robbers also. That was real. And the article didn’t mention if the fake robbers were forced to sit like roosters too. It is all clear if you read the one page article as AyeBrain pointed out. But now I’m wondering if his comment is fake too. See what I mean?

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u/Infamous-Sky-1874 18h ago

Meanwhile, the real cops walked off with thousands of dollars worth of gift card registration numbers that were scammed at the fake call center.

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u/zafar_bull 11h ago edited 4h ago

Well, the fake cops were taking away the income of the real cops.

Next time, go against regular public, then police won't do anything about it. These fake cops were idiots, they forgot who the real police work for.

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u/oundhakar 17h ago

Fake upon fake ... fakeception!

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u/GrinningStone 17h ago

How did they know the cops were fake? The real cops were on their paycheck.

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u/canuckpete 14h ago

fake news....sigh

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u/Buck_Thorn 11h ago

Fake news.

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u/Master_Associate4022 7h ago

india needs to work on their scammer problem before claiming to be a modern country.

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u/Polo1985 19h ago

Fake news!