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Arm the Homeless
Type: College Prank. Summary: A phony organization urged people to help provide the homeless with guns and ammunition. HOAX HAIKUThe charity says, “Homeless are Americans, too, so give them guns!” (by Krista)Submit a haiku In the first week of December, 1993, a press release was distributed to the Columbus, Ohio…
Bonsai Kitten
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that came online in late 2000 purported to offer instructions on how to raise kittens inside of glass jars. The Bonsai Kitten website. Bonsai describes the ancient Japanese art of growing miniature trees by rigorous pruning of their roots and branches. Because of their…
Central Park Zoo Escape
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Panic ensued after the New York Herald reported that wild animals had escaped from the New York City Zoo. “Another Awful Calamity. The Intellectual Department of The New York Herald Let Loose Upon the Public.” Front cover of the Daily Graphic (Nov. 13, 1874), mocking the…
I Buy Strays
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website pretends to represent a business that buys pets and resells them to research labs. IBuyStrays.com appeared on the internet in late December, 2007 and has quickly achieved notoriety. The site purports to represent a business that buys unwanted pets and stray animals and resells…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Modest Proposals
Type: Genre of satirical hoax. Summary: A form of satire that makes its point by shocking people with a socially taboo proposal. In 1729 Jonathan Swift published a short work titled A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to their Parents…
Wild Animal Hoax - Part 1
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Complete text of the “wild animal hoax” published by the New York Herald in 1874. On November 9, 1874 the New York Herald published an article claiming that the animals had escaped from their cages in the New York zoo and were rampaging through the city.…
Wild Animal Hoax - Part 2
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Continuation of the complete text of the “wild animal hoax” published by the New York Herald in 1874. (Continued from Wild Animal Hoax - Part 1.) On November 9, 1874 the New York Herald published an article claiming that the animals had escaped from their cages…
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Arm the Homeless
Type: College Prank. Summary: A phony organization urged people to help provide the homeless with guns and ammunition. HOAX HAIKUThe charity says, “Homeless are Americans, too, so give them guns!” (by Krista)Submit a haiku In the first week of December, 1993, a press release was distributed to the Columbus, Ohio…
Bonsai Kitten
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that came online in late 2000 purported to offer instructions on how to raise kittens inside of glass jars. The Bonsai Kitten website. Bonsai describes the ancient Japanese art of growing miniature trees by rigorous pruning of their roots and branches. Because of their…
Central Park Zoo Escape
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Panic ensued after the New York Herald reported that wild animals had escaped from the New York City Zoo. “Another Awful Calamity. The Intellectual Department of The New York Herald Let Loose Upon the Public.” Front cover of the Daily Graphic (Nov. 13, 1874), mocking the…
I Buy Strays
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website pretends to represent a business that buys pets and resells them to research labs. IBuyStrays.com appeared on the internet in late December, 2007 and has quickly achieved notoriety. The site purports to represent a business that buys unwanted pets and stray animals and resells…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Modest Proposals
Type: Genre of satirical hoax. Summary: A form of satire that makes its point by shocking people with a socially taboo proposal. In 1729 Jonathan Swift published a short work titled A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to their Parents…
Wild Animal Hoax - Part 1
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Complete text of the “wild animal hoax” published by the New York Herald in 1874. On November 9, 1874 the New York Herald published an article claiming that the animals had escaped from their cages in the New York zoo and were rampaging through the city.…
Wild Animal Hoax - Part 2
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Continuation of the complete text of the “wild animal hoax” published by the New York Herald in 1874. (Continued from Wild Animal Hoax - Part 1.) On November 9, 1874 the New York Herald published an article claiming that the animals had escaped from their cages…