Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010

Please Release Me

Never has there been a crueler April 1 hoax than the story that appeared in the Romanian newspaper Opinia in 2000, reporting that the inmates of Baia Mare prison were finally going to be released. Approximately 60 people went there in anticipation of a highly emotional reunion with their incarcerated loved ones, only for nobody to emerge from jail. The subsequent outcry shamed Opinia into publishing an apology.