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Man thought he was going to die, but he didn’t

From the Beeb:

Punjilal, a 75-year-old resident of a village in India’s Madhya Pradesh state had said he would die between 1500 and 1700 local time on Thursday … But the time came and passed and the fortune teller survived.

A slightly off-beat story maybe, but why on Earth did it make the front page of the BBC News site?

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Comment from sjhoward (author of the post)


    21.36, 20/10/2005

I’ve corrected a typo in the title for this post, so the Permalink URI…

…archive/2005/10/20/man-thought-he-was-doing-to-die-but-he-didnt

…and the title…

Man thought he was going to die, but he didn’t

…are incongruous – apologies for the initial error.




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