Comments on: News in Briefs 31/03/12 https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/news-in-briefs-310312/ News and Opinions from Around the World Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Samuel Shiro https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/news-in-briefs-310312/#comment-1103 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:15:21 +0000 http://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/?p=840#comment-1103 In reply to Michael J. McFadden.

Honestly, Michael, this is why I absolutely hate April Fools Day.

I unwittingly fell for one this year when I believed that Chris Kamara was really going to become a football referee. But the good thing is that I found that police story a few days before I wrote the article, so at least I know it’s real!

]]> By: Michael J. McFadden https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/news-in-briefs-310312/#comment-1094 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:06:27 +0000 http://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/?p=840#comment-1094 ‘a Welsh PC walked into a store and told the owner that selling a bong in Britain was illegal, which is completely false. He must have felt really smug, but before he went in to the South Wales-based store he had checked Google to clarify the law. The only issue was that he was looking at the law for New South Wales in Australia.”

Amazing. I’d suspect an April Fools story, except that I remember how, 9 years ago, I assumed the initial “Great Helena Heart Miracle” press release was an April Fools story. After all, how could any sane researchers claim that a small expansion of a smoking ban to cover a town’s bars would result in a 60% instant reduction in heart attacks?

Michael J. McFadden
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”

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