Reply #20: Imagine this story:

[Vetinarii]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philly police are "incandescent" over a "rescue mission" reportedly sponsored by the Egyptian embassy in Washington to retrieve an Egyptian national who was allegedly being held in the US illegally. Two people were slightly injured during the operation.

"It was dangerous, it was stupid, it was unnecessary," police spokesperson Hugh Jass told reporters.

The Egyptian, who has not been named, was apparently a 17 year old boy who had entered the US illegally and was being forced to work in dangerous and degrading conditions for slave wages. At some point he had managed to phone relatives at home and let them know that he was in distress; his location was pinpointed by tracing the call.

A spokesman for the Egyptian embassy said: "This boy did not dare go to local police, for fear of being imprisoned and tortured as an illegal Arab alien. If local authorities won't treat our people decently, we will have to do it ourselves."

Capt Jass retorts: "Of course the police would treat the kid decently if we'd known about him. Since when is America a country that mistreats foreigners?"

"I don't think I'm giving away any secrets when I say that Homeland Security is absolutely ballistic over this. There's talk of kicking the Egyptian embassy out altogether, and I don't think that would be an overreaction."