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Angry email gets 17-year-old banned from America

A BRITISH TEENAGER has been banned from ever entering the United States – because he sent an angry email to the White House. Luke Angel (17) wrote to Barack Obama expressing dissatisfaction with his government, but managed to include a barrage of foul and abusive language when doing so. Local police said his response was: “Oh dear, it was me.“

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