The woman now known to most of us solely as Botox Mom admitted last week that it was all a hoax, that she'd lied about injecting her young daughter with the toxin for a British tabloid article and an interview on "Good Morning America." Once again, the world was duped.
Also last week, it was reported that the parents who said their daughters had a rare immunodeficiency disease and received truckloads of sympathy and a new house on a 2009 episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," apparently fabricated the whole story about the girls' illness and are now being investigated for fraud and child abuse.They fooled us all. Ty Pennington too.And of course, the planet wasn't ravaged with quakes and despair last weekend as Oakland radio evangelist Harold Camping so famously predicted.after all, he didn't jet off to the Bahamas with people's donations but remained in town, sincerely baffled that his biblical calculations were off.But one thing's for sure: Whether a "Balloon Boy" floats across the Colorado sky, Internet scams offer banzai kittens and petite lap giraffes for sale, the occasional Bigfoot body is "discovered" or a doomsday date is declared, people fall for these things all the time.
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