[Pontiac]

It it easy to understand how non-English speaker could fall for this joke, especially a Russian speaker.

Helicopter in Russian is вертолете which sounds nothing like helicopter.

A play on words in a foreign language will easily escape a non-native speaker of that language.

[marcusmaximus]

[silverleaf]

The French news reporter and even Hamas fell for the same thing…the dangers of reporting social media rumors

[The_Media_never_lie]

Some of these guys just need to develop a sense of humor.

[higgmeister]

вертолет pronounced vertolet Vere-Tal-ot