crazy person fools crazy people, making them crazier

[kpete]

Blogger's baby was a hoax
Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancy

crazy person fools crazy people, making them crazier
nothing is worse than telling fanatics what they want to hear. chitrib:

by sunday night, when "april's mom" claimed to have given birth to her "miracle baby" -- blogging that april rose had survived a home birth only to die hours later -- her web site had nearly a million hits.

there was only one problem with the unfolding tragedy: none of it was true.

not the pregnancy, and not the photos posted on the blog of the supposed mother and baby april rose, swaddled in white blankets. the baby was actually a lifelike doll, which immediately raised the suspicion of loyal blog-followers.

"i have that exact doll in my house," said elizabeth russell, a dollmaker from buffalo who had been following the blog. "as soon as i saw that picture, i knew it was a scam."

apparently beccah beushausen, the woman who perpetrated the hoax - a blog about carrying the pregnancy and giving birth to a medically-doomed child - was motivated by the fact that her real life baby died a few years earlier. this is undoubtedly sad, but still, one wonders if beushausen wouldn't use her time more wisely in some therapy rather than at the keyboard. she fooled a lot of the pre-life movement:

more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-baby-hoax-12jun12,0,5601624.story
http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2009/06/crazy-person-fools-crazy-people-making.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. Well...

Thats the creepiest thing I've heard today.

[rcrush]

4. I was going to say dumbest thing I heard all day.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Question for you

I got bad eyes and being unemployed, I can't afford new glasses right now. What is the message your avatar has? I can see words flashing on the leaf but can only make out "WE", whats the rest of it?

[rcrush]

7. it says 'YES WE CANNABIS"

[Ohio Joe]

8. That is freakin great!

Best slogan for a good cause I've heard in ages :headbang:

[opihimoimoi]

2. They got snookered??? big deal...small loss....look at what BushCo did

Snooker America and what did we Lose??? Bush caused us $3 Trillion and thousands of Lives...

[JayMusgrove]

3. Can't we send all these kinds of people up to Alaska?

Sarah would welcome all storytellers about baby births. I think we know that, for sure.

[islandmkl]

5. she should have claimed that an 'act of god' turned her 'doomed' child...

was turned into a 'beautiful doll' for her to have for a lifetime of memories of the 'miracle'....

[beac]

9. "crazy person fools crazy people, making them crazier" -- Isn't that the tag line for

Glen Beck's TV show? ;)

[Greyskye]

10. I thought it was going to be a commentary on the Bush presidency.

Fool me once, etc.

[LisaL]

11. The article claims there is no evidence she benefited financially

in any significant way, yet the same article talks about the couple who said they've send her a few hundred dollars.
Shouldn't police investigate this?