Yet another fake Aussie sting

Journos from Down Under caught in the act

First they tried to create a security scare by conducting a fake sting operation on the Commonwealth Games village, now it was the turn of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.


Sting in the tail: This purported Aussie journalist (left)was allegedly trying
to expose scalping of tickets. Pic/atul krishan

Some of the purported Aussie scribes were waiting at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Metro station with a paper signboard with "Need Tickets" written on it.

They were posing as spectators and attracted a lot of attention. Allegedly a German scribe was partnering the Aussie in his crime.

They claimed that they wanted to expose black-marketing of tickets at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium despite the fact that there was no official word on it and though there were some complaints the police found nothing on an inquiry.

"We are volunteers working with an NGO. We need tickets. If you have tickets, please give it to us," said Ina, the German scribe. However, when MiD DAY followed the group, they entered the the stadium quite easily. They had the required passes.

The Australian journo, was told how he could get tickets online and buy them from authorised outlets but he insisted it from buying it from an individual. Both of them were later spotted inside the stadium sitting along other journalists covering the opening ceremony.

Channel Seven's Mike Duffy had claimed in his sting that he had taken an "oversized bag containing a remote detonating unit capable of setting off 200 explosions" through the police cordon outside Commonwealth Games village. The report showed him entering the village premises while security personnel stationed there were distracted by the movement of their own vehicles.

But as the ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry pointed out in his report, the bag was nothing but just a suitcase made of foam supposed to keep the remote detonating unit.