A few years back, cricket writers were getting pee-ed off that 'their' scoops always turned up in other papers. Turns out that when they went for lunch, one unscrupulous scribbler used to have a quick glance at their laptops, which they'd left open in the pressbox.
So a few of them concocted a story that Mick Jagger was going to buy Surrey (IIRC), and the plagiarist took the bait...
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