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Truth is stranger than fiction.
Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Started conversation May 8, 2001
If you wrote a book featuring a scene where a 71-year-old man who has suffered three strokes, uses a walking stick, and has lost the power of speech, flies into London to be met by 60 police officers you would never get it published.
In real life, it happened yesterday when one of the more minor crooks involved in the 1960's, so-called, Great Train Robbery, prison escaper Ronnie Biggs, flew home from Brazil to take advantage of the free British health service.
If you mentioned the fact that the private jet he flew home in was paid for by Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper and that the story is on the front page of all the British newspapers and is the lead item on all the TV channels I guess you would be shown the door even quicker.
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