68117 april fools hoaxes

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Spaghetti Harvest
On April 1, 1957, BBC announced on the
news that thanks to a very mild winter people
in Switzerland were enjoying an incredible
spaghetti crop. They accompanied the message
with a picture of people pulling strands of
spaghetti down from trees. A huge number of
viewers were taken in and called the BBC to
find out how they could grow their own
spaghetti. To this BBC answered that they
should place a sprig og spaghetti in a tin of
tomato sauce and hope for the best!

LA Highways Close for Repair
In 1987 a disc jockey in Los Angeles
announced that the highway system would be
closed for an entire month due to repair. It was
alarming news as you need to go on the
highway to get almost everywhere in Los

Angeles. People started calling in and the
California Highway Patrol reported that they
were flooded with calls throughout the day. A
representative from the California Department
of Transportation called the station’s manager
to let him know that they didn’t like the prank!

Dogs Painted White
In 1965 Politiken, a Danish newspaper had a
story about all dogs must be painted white. It
was because it would increase road safety at
night by allowing dogs to be seen more easily.

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Instant colour TV

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In 1962 Sweden had only one TV station and it broadcast in black
and white. However, they told the viewers that they could convert
their existing TV sets to display color reception very easily. All
they had to do was to pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen.
They had a technical expert demonstrate it! Again people called in

to learn more as it didn’t work right away!

The left-handed Whopper
Burger King published a full page advertisement in the April 1st
edition of US Today some years ago announcing that they had a
new item on the menu. 32 million left-handed Americans could
now enjoy a burger designed especially for them. The new
whopper had all the same ingredients as the original one except all
the condiments had been rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of the
left-handed people.

Whistling Carrots
Twelve years ago the British supermarket
chain Tesco announced in an advertisement
in The Sun that they had developed a
genetically modified “whistling carrot”. The
carrots had grown with tapered airholes in
their side. When fully cooked, these holes
caused the carrots to whistle.

Read about the different hoaxes and decide which one you like best and why?

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Then write in you notebook a prank you would like to be published in a paper or
brought on television.

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