British crims flog spuds to Germans

A COUPLE of British conmen have been caught trying to pass off potatoes as laptops to unsuspecting German punters.

Inspector Hans Knacker of the Berlin yard has arrested one of two British men suspected of selling bags that they said held laptops and mobile phones but which in reality contained potatoes.

The pair, driving around in a car with British number plates, tricked around 40 people in two German states by convincing them to hand over cash for the electronic hardware.

The Germans were unimpressed with the design of their new laptops, which seemed to lack the precision they had become accustomed to from other European OEMS. It was clear that there was a chip or two inside each spud, but when the spuds failed to boot up they called in the cops who tracked complaints across two German states.

A shopowner in Hildesheim near Hanover called the cops on Friday after he had read in the paper about swindlers in a right-hand-drive car.

Their cover was blown when they tried to sell another sack of spuds to a group of people that included someone who had bought a computer from them before.

Coppers rushed to the scene and after a car chase captured one of the two men. A second man, aged 20 and whom the police have since identified, was able to flee on foot despite being trailed by a police helicopter. Police believe he may be armed, probably with a spud gun.

A spokesVole didn't tell the INQ but might have said: "Windows 7 will not run on a potato. Now please stop wasting my time and go away."

Similarly Apple didn't warn that potatoes are not authorised to run OSX because they are too dirty and not pretty enough. µ