NICOSIA (Reuters) - You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell.
A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he was carrying – otherwise it was a near-perfect copy, the Cyprus Mail said Wednesday.
“Ministry” was spelled “Menistry” and the first “n” was missing from government, the newspaper said.
“The passport looked perfect and professionally made … almost deemed original by forensics,” a police officer told a magistrate in the Cypriot capital Nicosia.
He just spelt 'em the way he pronounces 'em. Its all a fault of English language. Damn it!
Whats the point/faida of the first 'n' in 'government' anyway... totally useless.
If I were his lawyer, I'd argue that English language needs to be majorly reformed and fixed (and no, I am not about to Google for that European English language joke).
Although I do think he needs to be punished for forging the passport of Afghanistan. Forgery, I can understand... but Afghanistan? Come on......