Another BS story the media claimed was true...
The "Halloween candy makes you fat" lady. 
The story that sparked the most Internet outrage last week wasn't about communist health care or the NSA reading your old AIM chat logs -- it was about some terrible lady in North Dakota who, according to CBS, Fox News, USA Today, and many others, opted to hand out "you're fat" letters to children instead of candy:
Pretty much everyone jumped on this ... so how come no one interviewed that lady after she was so happy to announce her intentions on a radio show? Probably because they made her up. The same radio station already pulled a stunt like this last year with a woman calling in about moving deer crossing signs (to help deer) that turned out to be a hoax. So while the media ran with it, anyone aware that "wacky" morning radio callers are mostly actors simply called bullshit and moved on.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-total-b.s.-new-stories-you-thought-were-true/#ixzz2kAoMpKy3