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wordweaver3
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Fools day fools Apr 1, 2017 19:58:34 GMT

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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 1, 2017 19:58:34 GMT

It's All Fools Day, or April Fools if you please, and I thought of a game.

Post the worst April Fools joke getting passed as actual news that you can.

I'll go first with something from the Huff Post.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mansfield-cyanide-trap-dog-son_us_58dfafd1e4b0b3918c83e655

Nothing like an April Fools joke involving the USDA using cyanide bombs and killing a dog. Obviously fake since they're selling it so hard. They even got the USDA involved with a link to a pdf about the device.

www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/content/printable_version/fs_m44_device.pdf

Looks legit to me.

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Harkovast Administrator Posts: 9,832	Fools day fools Apr 1, 2017 21:46:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Harkovast on Apr 1, 2017 21:46:44 GMT I heard abotu this one shitty furry comic that did a load of russian text with bizzare conspiracy theory mesages. Here is one that is a joke, but I WISH was real cause its the best idea ever. See what you think.
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wordweaver3 Ultra Platinum Harko-fan Posts: 4,231	Fools day fools Apr 1, 2017 22:09:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 1, 2017 22:09:45 GMT I don't get why that's funny.
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Harkovast Administrator Posts: 9,832	Fools day fools Apr 1, 2017 22:23:20 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Harkovast on Apr 1, 2017 22:23:20 GMT Its just an amusing crazy concept...unfortunately its too good an idea and it ends u0p being something people would really want!
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Fools day fools Apr 2, 2017 0:45:33 GMT

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Post by Horsie on Apr 2, 2017 0:45:33 GMT

@word; that article is real, I looked up the M-44 cyanide trap and the first link was a Wikipedia page that's been up for years, it says that several people have been injured and quite a few domestic animals killed, it cites an article on an Idaho news site from a few weeks ago about that kid and his dog setting off a trap.

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Fools day fools Apr 2, 2017 1:20:39 GMT

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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 2, 2017 1:20:39 GMT

All that can be manufactured. If this was an actual device being used there would be far more videos and articles about it. Animal rights organizations would be all over it and would have been for years. The device itself probably exists, but I doubt it's actually in use this way. I don't see much real information on it prior to last month, and anything that does predate last month has also been modified last month.

There's like a dozen videos on the device on youtube, and all but maybe two of them are recent.

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Fools day fools Apr 2, 2017 2:57:06 GMT

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Post by Horsie on Apr 2, 2017 2:57:06 GMT

That seems a little extreme for a bad joke.

As for why there isn't a whole lot on them before this incident, I doubt too many people are going to care if some farmer loses a cow or sheep, it's unlikely it'll get much coverage, if any, there's more likely to be something about someone's dog getting poisoned by one of these traps, but if some kid nearly gets killed by a cyanide trap planted by a government agency like the USDA, and then watches helplessly as his dog dies, people are naturally going to go apeshit and start taking an interest.

Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 1, 2017 19:58:34 GMT

Post by Harkovast on Apr 1, 2017 21:46:44 GMT

Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 1, 2017 22:09:45 GMT

Post by Harkovast on Apr 1, 2017 22:23:20 GMT

Post by Horsie on Apr 2, 2017 0:45:33 GMT

Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 2, 2017 1:20:39 GMT

Post by Horsie on Apr 2, 2017 2:57:06 GMT