Russians suspect Welsh arsonist stripper could be British spy

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2919585.html

A Welsh male stripper is being investigated as a suspected spy after setting fire to a car in Moscow "to cheer himself up".

Alistair Penney, a 38-year-old dancer from Cardiff, was arrested as he ran from a burning Mercedes Benz in a suburb that has seen a spate of arson attacks on cars.

A video released by Russian police showed Mr Penney wearing a broad grin as he struggled to explain in broken Russian why he had set fire to the car.

"I'm called Alistair," he tells questioning officers. "I speak little, bad but I learn."

[Richardo]

1. That's my favorite James Bond book.

"Alistair Penney". Right :eyes:

[dmallind]

2. If I had a dime for every time I've seen that headline....

.....I'd have.....well, a dime I guess.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Lol

[Renew Deal]

4. I don't get what the arson has to do with espianoge?

Are they government, diplomat, or even scientists cars? :shrug:

[Skidmore]

5. Ahh, sweet Jesu, some one should take away the Blockbuster accounts

of these international spy agencies. These people seriously need lives. What the hell kind of person does this type of "work?" Running around the world creating discord and mayhem? I don't get these people. Furthermore, I don't get why any nation would really need to have such agencies. What the heck is wrong with sitting down and talking to one another and being above board in your negotiations. Get rid of the the nukes and recognize that we are all here for a little while and need to do what we can to help one another. Really, where do they find these people?

[lame54]

6. Right here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfWXkEJj_Q

[Turbineguy]

7. So he's a spy

but his cover is that he's a stripper. Way to blend into the background. What ever happened to "commercial attache"?

[DavidDvorkin]

8. "Buns. James Buns."

[Withywindle]

9. This sounds like a Torchwood episode.

(He's really an alien, of course, but Jack has to shag him to find out for sure.)

[LeftishBrit]

10. One of the things we lost with the end of the Cold War...

was a lot of improbable plots for fourth-rate spy stories.

It seems this is changing back now!

[Ian David]

11. Among the possessions found on him was a map...

Russian newspapers quoted police sources as saying that they were suspicious of the way Mr Penney had contradicted himself and suggested that there were other indications that pointed to the fact that he could be a spy.

Among the possessions found on him was a map...



Never did trust that damn thing.