On April 1, 2003, as thousands of American-led coalition troops stormed across Iraq, the Iraqi ambassador to Russia, Abbas Khalaf Kunfuth, held a press conference in Moscow. Many were expecting him to announce that Iraq conceded defeat. Instead Kunfuth chose this moment to hold a gag press conference. Holding up a piece of paper that he identified as a news flash from Reuters, he read aloud from it: 'The Americans have accidentally fired a nuclear missile into British forces, killing seven.' Immediately the room full of reporters went silent with shock. Then Kunfuth grinned and shouted 'April Fools!' Only a few days after this unexpected moment of levity, the Iraqi government completely collapsed.

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The film National Lampoon's Vacation includes a scene in which Chevy Chase ties a dog to the bumper of his car, then forgets the dog is there and drives away. Inspired by this scene, Paul Goobie tied a dead chihuahua to the bumper of his co-worker's car. His co-worker, Kevin Meloy, got in the car and drove off, unaware that the chihuahua was there. Obviously passing motorists were horrified. But what made the situation even worse was that Meloy was deaf, so he couldn't hear the other motorists frantically honking at him. Happily he drove on for miles until finally someone was able to get his attention. Police charged Goobie with unlawful disposal of a dead animal.

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Superb reading. Much of it hilarious and scary at the same time. It kind of reminded me of the great hoax Orsen Welles pulled a few decades ago (although I don't think it was on April Fools' Day). The War of the Worlds broadcast, in a 'news coverage' format, about Martians invading the U.S. Many listeners heard the fake news of cities being attacked and panicked in terror, some committing suicide. Orsen apologized later, confessing that he had never anticipated such human gullibility.