Monday, November 17, 2008

Mera Bharat Mahaan !



Had to share this with you all...


A roadside vendor at the Sonepur cattle fair (Bihar)charged two foreigners -hold your breath-- Rs.10,000 for 4 samosas! He claimed that they were full of healthy herbs. The gullible foreigners paid but they shared this piece of transaction with ---guess who?? A police officer! The good officer promptly walked upto the vendor and got the hapless consumers a refund of Rs.9,990.


All I can say.It happens only in India :-)

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14 comments:

  1. MampiNovember 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM

    Oh my God,
    thanks for sharing it.
    But I am sure, they did get their fair share of herbs.
    Now, tell this to the cows of the previous post too, hehe.

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  2. SandhyaNovember 17, 2008 at 6:53 PM

    Good one. We see advertisement in all languages 'Athithi Devo Bhava'! Still this type of cheating goes on! Thank god, they took the help of the Policeman.

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  3. ReflectionsNovember 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM

    Heeeeheeeee, seriously????? 10,000rupees for 4 samosas.....it really happened????? What duffers....the foreigners I mean??? Lucky they got their money back

    Nancy is humming "It happens only in India" as she exits this page

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  4. DNovember 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM

    Heard that.

    It's insane, isn't it?

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  5. aneri_masiNovember 18, 2008 at 3:08 AM

    hehe, what's the harm in trying, i say ;)

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  6. SunshineNovember 18, 2008 at 7:32 AM

    ROTFL!!!! Thats hilarious!!! Wt kind of foreigners don't bother to do any research before going to another country!!

    "It happens only in India" - sooo truee!!

    Now im going to hum that like Nancy all day long!! Lololol!!

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  7. IyaNovember 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM

    LOL.. there are a few Indian keywords that will make these foreigners pay anything - Ayurrveda, organic, herbal, yoga, etc...

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  8. DeeplyDipNovember 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM

    well wish i could hire this samosa walla! He def has some good selling skills :) and well i agree with reflections - "what kind of duffers....the foreigners I mean??" didn't they do any research before paying this amount? And if they did pay the money, they possibly saw the value in the product as well...good going the samosa wala...

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  9. my spaceNovember 18, 2008 at 9:15 PM

    mampi :-)
    @Sandhya..well cheating goes on everywhere!
    @Reflections..Yeah I mean seriously how could they be so Duh??
    @d..crazy!
    @ aneri..exactly..try and try till u succeed :-)
    @sunshine..crazy absolutely!
    @iya..those are the magic words..they will really pay fr anything that s mystic!
    dEeplydip...egjhactly! bahut kaam ka banda hain..as aneri sd no harm in trying mil gaye to sahi warna apna kya jaata hain..wish cld employ him!!

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  10. How do we knowNovember 19, 2008 at 3:40 PM

    Amazing!!! Sometimes, policemen can be good samaritans!

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  11. Balvinder BalliNovember 21, 2008 at 6:29 PM

    Yeah, read this in TOI. Very enterprizing shopkeeper, i must say.

    Yaar apkey samosey ki picture dekh kar toh muh mein paani a gaya.

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  12. Just call me 'A'November 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM

    ha ha ha...most foreigner are wiser nowadays...but i guess there's always a bakra :)

    hi...hopped over from D.

    A

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  13. my spaceNovember 22, 2008 at 8:20 PM

    @HDWK..sometimes yes!

    @Balwinder..i love samosas too!

    @ JCM A..Thanks for dropping by..bakre ka bhi bakra this was :-)

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  14. PARRYDecember 2, 2008 at 12:47 AM

    Really funny. Full marks to the policeman though. It wasn't expected of him, if you know wat i mean.

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