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DEAR VICE - INDIAN RIPPERS

Dear Vice,

You've been scooped. I guess someone over at the Guardian has been reading your magazine a little too closely. This piece on the Gulabi gang is from Friday, and I read the exact same story in Vice when I got my copy more than a week ago.
MARTIN HORLOCK
Ottawa, ON

Thanks for the heads up, Martin. Hopefully our readers are sharp enough to realize that we didn't read this last week, call up some guy in India to track the gang down and interview and photograph its members over the weekend then FTP us all the pics and text on Monday, lay the whole thing out yesterday, post it on the website last night, then start work on a time machine this morning to take us back to the end of December when we were putting together the print edition and slip this in once it's complete (4-5 months), but you never know. Maybe our readers don't understand causal relationships. Or maybe the Guardian just finished/are going to finish their machine before we did/do.

As proof positive that we were first, here is a picture of the article as it appears in our current issue next to a copy of The Economist from two weeks ago. Case closed.