Ugly April Fool's joke....I hate this shit.

[cboy4]

April Fool's: John McCrea isn't dead and Sacrag isn't funny

Sacramento Bee
April 01, 2008

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/ticket/

April Fool's: John McCrea isn't dead and Sacrag isn't funny

It's April Fool's Day, which basically means that any self-respecting American will have gotten out of bed today with both eyes wide open and his-or-her irony meter set on high.

That said, even I did a double take when I read the Sacrag headline: http://sacrag.com/2008/04/sad-news-john-mccrea-death/

A traffic accident has taken the life of John McCrea, lead singer and songwriter for the band Cake. No official statement has been made by the band’s management, but sources close to the Rag report that the incident occurred last night after their sold-out show in Bordeaux, France.

Band members were noshing at a patisserie when a delivery van for the business jumped onto the sidewalk and crashed onto the patio seating. McCrea was killed instantly. Trumpeter Vince DiFiore has reportedly been hospitalized, but his condition is unknown.

It only took a few minutes and some light Google searching to realize that A) No one else was reporting this "story," and B) the Sacramento-born band isn't even on tour right now, much less hanging out in Bordeaux, France.

OK, great, it's April Fool's Day - you got me. So funny.

Actually, Sacrag readers don't seem too amused either, with comments decrying the joke as "cruel," "insensitive" and "tasteless."

on edit....add link.

I hate April Fool's Day. It doesn't amuse me in the least.

[Bunny]

1. That's just sick.

Not at all funny. :puke:

[provis99]

2. I'm not sure what in this sacrap piece is supposed to be funny

They seem to confuse being funny with being smarmy assholes.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. I recognize all those as words...

...but I don't see a joke anywhere.

[DarkTirade]

4. Not funny, but I suppose it is appropriate to the day... because there had to be at least one fool

involved in the decision to run that article.

[Berry Cool]

5. Yeah, that's just stupid.

It's not funny, it's just a hoax.

April Fools are supposed to be funny. Unless you think that making people miserable because they think somebody died who didn't die is funny, this isn't funny.

Even hoaxes that no one is really fooled by are good April Fool jokes if they're clever and funny. But there's nothing clever and funny about this.

[BlooInBloo]

6. This one was funny tho...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml

[Toasterlad]

7. Stupid Sacrag. "Noshing" Was a Dead Giveaway.

It SCREAMS "gag".