Signs produced by the London Metropolitan Police and CrimeStoppers, an independent charity dedicated to making the streets safer. The English reads: “Pickpockets beware! Undercover police working in this area! In July three pickpockets received sentences of over four years!” In a campaign targeting light-fingered foreigners, the same warning appears in Spanish on a placard a few lampposts away, but a software program translated it. The result, rendered back into English, reads, roughly: “The pickpockets are kept. Police of the inner deck that works in the area. In July three the pickpockets received prayers of the prison over of four years.”
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