Headlines

Like many people I get a lot of spam emails. The ones offering to increase the size of my member, or from cute Russians who saw me online and really want to meet me, have got just boring. Offers of rip-off watches and mails pretending to be from bank accounts I don’t have always were. I have been rather impressed by some headlined with fake news stories this week though. I’ll admit to even checking the BBC just in case on a couple of them… So here’s a selection, with just one genuine story, from the Hackney Gazzette. Can you spot it?

Kidney Stealing Ring Busted
Arnold Says I’m Gay Too!
Monkeys Taught To Handle A Gun
Hospital Handwash Stolen To Make Moonshine
Plucky Pensioner Discovers Hitler In His Local Starbucks
Police Open Fire On Elderly In Iowa
Orgy In Public Park
Scientists Prove Landing In Mars Staged
Flu Outbreak Kills Thousands In Mexico
Girl Attacked By Pirahnas In Georgia
Geek Turns Into Hot Babe

Some funny, some definitely not, but I think they all have that hint of ‘could be…’. I’ve opened a couple (definitely not replied, or clicked on the links inside…) and they contain more stories. The Mexico Flu outbreak contains a link purporting to be to a story on global warming causing cancer. Interested in gay Arnie? Inside is a link to ‘Courtney Love Vows To Wear Clothes’. Are the two stories linked? Anyway, if you want to know… the genuine East End story is the hospital one. Yep, apparently people are stealing the newly-introduced bottles of mediscrub in the corridors… It contains alcohol you know.