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Jordanian paper's April Fool UFOs spark panic
AP via Houston Chronicle ^
| April 5, 2010, 12:30PM
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Posted on 04/05/2010 11:42:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
A Jordanian newspaper's April Fool's Day report chronicling a late-night visit by 10-foot-tall aliens in flying saucers sparked public panic and almost led to the town's emergency evacuation, officials said Monday...
Jafr's mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, got caught up in the paper's prank and said he sent security authorities in search of the aliens.
"Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents," Mleihan told the Associated Press. "People were scared that aliens would attack them."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Conspiracy; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: allahforbidsufos; aprilfools; hoax; jordan; pravdamedia; propaganda; ufo
Wonder if anyone ever ran a "fact check" on the Left's talking points echoed as "news" in the Arab street with regards to the US war against Saddam, Gitmo, etc...
To: JoeProBono
Orson Welles calling...
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:43:44 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: a fool in paradise
Those who believe in a false god will believe anything I suppose.
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:44:39 AM PDT
by
gop4lyf
(Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
To: a fool in paradise
To: a fool in paradise
Guess the Jordanians haven’t yet learned that EVERYTHING in a newspaper is a lie.
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posted on
04/05/2010 12:01:35 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: a fool in paradise
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Aprils Fool joke in Jordan? Don't you get your hand cut off for something like that?
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posted on
04/05/2010 12:14:16 PM PDT
by
Touch Not the Cat
(Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
10 Foot Helen Thomases? Yikes! I’m waiting for the next ship to Pandora so I can get one of those hot 10 foot babes with the tail and the attitude.
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posted on
04/05/2010 12:40:46 PM PDT
by
Brainhose
(The Obama Express Race Card: Don't Leave Home Without It!)
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