Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

[Kevin]

Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion (http://www.fmft.net/archives/BBC_NEWS.htm)

Now people in Cambodia are ripping Ron off!!

This is crazy shit..

[JPMNICK]

this has to be fake. there is no way the government would sanction this.

but here is quote anyway:

The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.

[mikeyboy]

Uh. Did you notice that the story you linked to is over 2 years old? I believe it was also determined to be a hoax.

[Kevin]

Oh.. last time i let my stupid friends send me links to shit.. My bad.

[Crash]

Deja Vu...
http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45097&highlight=lion

[mikeyboy]

Definitely fake. That isn't even really BBC's website. (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/lion-midgets.html)

A "news" story, supposedly released by the BBC, has been spreading rapidly around the Internet via blogs, forums and email. The story claims that 42 members of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League were killed or injured in a bloody battle with an African lion.

The story was originally posted on a web page that was constructed to resemble a genuine BBC News article. However, the story is a fake and the web page that it is displayed on has no association with the BBC. Apparently, the fake article was originally intended as a joke to be shared among a limited number of friends. However, links to the article "escaped" into cyberspace and spread rapidly as such stories often do. The perpetrator has now placed a disclaimer online to explain the details of the hoax. The disclaimer outlines the reason the fake article was created as follows:

It was created to 'settle' a dispute between a friend of mine in which he claimed that 40 weaponless midgets could defeat 1 lion in a hypothetical fight. Many of my other friends and I tried to convince him that the lion would definitely win, but he would not back down from his argument. After seeing another fake article posing as BBC about 'zombism' in Cambodia, I got the idea to make this fake news article to try and convince him for the final time.

[Garyisajoke]

Ron and Fez covered this at WJFK and it was a great bit... but it was a hoax. To save Mikeyboy a second, here's the audio, conveniently located in the File Library... which has brought me hours upon hours of entertainment. Thanks for that. Your welcome in advance.

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2814

[Furtherman]

So I've been lighting 42 candles every May 2nd for NOTHING?!?! My faith is shattered.