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Old 04-01-2005, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4400535.stm


10 stories that could be pranks - but aren't


Today is 1 April, when jokers set out to fool and the rest of us are on our guard. Here is our annual round-up of some of the day's seemingly spoof news stories which are actually true.


9. Conmen in Slough are getting people to pay £400 for laptops, before handing over bags filled not with computer but with bottles filled with water.
I heard about a lady who bought a stereo on the street in NYC. She did not look in the box until she got home. Guess what? She had a box of rocks!
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