Arrested for musical taste.BRITISH POLICE DETAINED de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: AN INDIAN MAN at an airport on the suspicion that he might be a terrorist after he asked a cabdriver to play some songs on the car's radio from his MP3 player A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. . The songs included one by the Clash whose lyrics included the words: "London calling to the faraway far·a·way adj. 1. Very distant; remote. 2. Abstracted; dreamy: a faraway look. faraway Adjective 1. very distant 2. towns/Now war is declared and battle come down/London calling to the underworld, come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. ." Police arrested 24-year-old Harraj Mann as he was boarding his flight and later released him. Mann told reporters, "I never, ever played the race card. I really do forget I'm Asian. But when something like this happens, it does make you think." |
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