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Spot The Difference

Mark Devenport | 12:13 UK time, Thursday, 18 December 2008

My esteemed colleague Gareth Gordon and another hack were having lunch in a Belfast cafe yesterday when they were joined by an uninvited guest. A rat scuttled in through the door, probably coming from a nearby building site. It ran around the floor, disappeared behind the counter then reappeared on the window sill.

The proprietor quickly closed the door and summoned help.

Which begs the question; when the authorities arrived and were confronted by two journalists and a rat, how could they tell who was the bigger pest?

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