The Museum of Hoaxes
HOME   |   ABOUT   |   FORUM   |   CONTACT   |   PINTEREST   |   FACEBOOK   |   TWITTER   |   RSS
The Top 100
April Fool Hoaxes
Of All Time
April Fool's Day
Gallery
Hoax Photo
Archive

Quick Links: Peace Bomb and Fake Snakes
image Peace Bomb
Colin Barnett thought a good way to promote his art might be to place one of his vases outside the National Gallery of Victoria with the phrase "Peace Bomb" written on it. The police disagreed, and now Barnett is spending three months behind bars. I guess his publicity stunt backfired.

Fake Snakes
"Austrian officials fed up with motorists stopping to urinate by the roadside have put up fake snake warnings to scare them into using toilets... Of course there are no snakes but they don’t know that." So what happens when the Austrian authorities really want to warn people about snakes? No one will believe them.

Taiwan Hostage Hoax
Two Taiwanese MPs reported that students had been taken hostage at National Taiwan University. The police arrive, only to discover it was all a hoax. the MPs just wanted to test the police response time.
Categories: Animals, Hate Crimes/Terror
Posted by Alex on Fri Apr 20, 2007
Comments (2)
More from the Hoax Museum Archives:
3 months for a fake bomb? And how many bombs look vases and have 'peace' written on them? How utterly ridiculous.

Those Taiwanese MPs should be arrested for wasting pokice time.
Posted by Nona  in  London  on  Thu Apr 26, 2007  at  06:50 AM
Actually, warning people about the presence of dangerous snakes in Australia is like posting a warning on a lampost in Castro Street, San Francisco, that visitors might meet a gay person; It's pretty much a given.
Posted by DFStuckey  in  Auckland New Zealand  on  Mon Jun 04, 2007  at  11:44 PM
Comments: Page 1 of 1 pages

Note: Comments by non-members are all checked by a moderator before appearing on the site. This may take a while. If you're not a spammer, you can join here.




Smileys