[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Otter

THIS STORY IS FALSE

But entertaining and until I researched it a bit I was convinced we are living in a Quentin Tarantino Movie.

Click knowing it's false:

Spoiler!

Despite the outlandish claims that 510lb Romeo Carter broke into a Miami based Burger King to drink gallons of cooking oil, some readers remained sceptical.

A Florida man found an extreme way to cheat on his diet last night: He broke into a closed fast food restaurant and drank more than 25 gallons of used oil from the deep fryers.
The Miami Police Department received a call for a break-in at a Burger King restaurant around 2 A.M. and some officers were on the site in a matter of minutes.
Upon arriving at the restaurant, they found 510-lb Romeo Carter, chugging down oil directly from the deep fryers. The 41-year old man has already ingested dozens of gallons of cooking oil, but was still drinking it with an apparently unquenchable thirst.
He was arrested on the site and accused of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking and criminal mischief.

And rightly so. The story is entirely fictional. There is no “Romeo Carter” (the mugshot is someone else) and the entire story is just designed to garner likes and shares on social media. It is yet another example of fake news from our leading spoof news website worldnewsdailyreport.com.

WorldNewsDailyReport.com is a popular fake news site that often publishes this sort of fake news by creating a bizarre sounding crime and coupling it with a random mugshot found on the Internet, and then presenting both as a real life crime that recently occurred.

Yeah, the 25 gallons of fryer oil kind of tips us off.

The people who write these things should be working a little harder. If it was two gallons, or maybe even three, it would potentially be believable. But 25 gallons immediately ruins the fantasy.

That said, my favorite tabloid story was about a new hobby of skydiving without a parachute. The participants had to hit trees so the branches would slow their fall. I could see it in my mind's eye.