Recently I was caught out by a Lebanese Loop
For those not up on the terminology, a "Lebanese Loop" is a (presumably slightly racist) piece of police terminology for a device that is hidden in a cashpoint so it retains your card. After a spotter has seen you enter your PIN, they then retrieve your card at a later time and go on a spending spree. In my case I'd clocked the spotter and called the bank but not in time to prevent £850 leaving my account in 10 minutes.

Anyway, I was on the phone to the police a bit later, giving them a description of the suspicious man who was hanging around the cashpoint. I said he was Asian, and though I'm not great at placing accents I think he was Pakistani. I got put on hold, and my girlfriend started trying to make me laugh by being outrageously (but ironically) racist while I was on the phone to her majesty's finest.
She said: "How on earth are they going to catch him from that description? You know all Pakistanis look the same."
I replied with: "Does't matter which one they catch then, does it?"
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 15:49, Reply)