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November 21, 2004 Link to this post
Writing fake news is stupid.
in what has to be a REALLY early April Fools joke, Xbox365 has put up an article about two youngsters (15 and 20) in the UK who allegedly turned the family's car "into an alien tank similar to the one found in the chilling game [Halo]", and then crashing it into the wall and dying. The mother of one of the boys is quoted as saying 'why don't the government step in and stop me from buying them for my children?' For the record - none of the facts in the story are verifiable by any other internet source. There's nothing in the Daily Mirror (the newspaper purported to be the source of this story), there's nothing in any other news source about Stalybridge... the barrister mentioned in the article (Edmund Woolf) has no phone listing whatsoever in the UK (seems rather suspicious for a barrister), there's no record of the 'similar story' youth (whose story of a Mario suit killing fellow students seems ridiculous beyond belief)... I suppose I'm posting this because I'd really hate to see this rumor gain any credence. (Louis Wu 19:07:54 UTC)
