Did You Get Fooled Yet?

I love practical jokes and good April Fools stories.  The best is seeing how many people actually fall for these stories... To date, BBC's "Swiss Spaghetti Harvest" is still the best hoax ever run by a serious news station.

Many viewers contacted the station wanting to know if they could grow their own spaghetti tree (?!), to which BBC responded: "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin can of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

And how about the "Taco Liberty Bell" (and Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial) hoax, 

 the story of Alabama changing the value of Pi,

or the left handed Whopper (which Burger King reported they had sold many of, as well as had several requests for "the regular right handed Whopper")?

 Not to speak about the law making "drunk driving on the information highway" illegal (now that may not be such a bad idea after all....),

the whistling carrots,

or the French aviator who dropped not a bomb,

 but a football on a German camp during WWI with a note attached that read: "April Fools".  I love it!  You can find more of the best April Fools hoaxes here.



On to plotting and planning my own little hoax...