Reminds me of the major prank pulled on the talking heads in San Francisco. Right after the tragic 2013 airplane crash, some prankster(s) typed out these ‘names’ of the pilots, and the idiot news reader / talking head just read them without taking a moment to realize these could never be real. There was even a graphic on the television screen:
Captain - Sum Ting Wong
Pilot - Wi Tu Lo
Pilot - Ho Lee Fuk
Engineer - Bang Ding Ow
Ah, yes..and one more Bay Area classic. When I used to drive quite a lot every day, and before one could check traffic on the internet, I would listen closely to the every-ten-minute radio traffic reports. One time, another intrepid news writer composed this for the radio reporter to read, live on the air: “There are reports of an overturned truck with a white powdery substance on Highway 880. Cleanup crews are on the way with straws.”. I was laughing so hard I had to remind myself to watch the road.
The greatest troll ever. What’s even funnier is the dimwits called the Feds to confirm the names and someone confirmed them.
Here it is, you can’t make it up. (Capt. Sum Ting Wong)
I wonder if that Monitor reader is still in the business?