tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396400076289756556.post864624149933158586..comments2023-08-27T06:49:12.034-04:00Comments on Celebrity Blogsburg: Hoaxer Jack MooreBlogsburg Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506662697096861375noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396400076289756556.post-32563012234137841512010-09-22T17:47:38.172-04:002010-09-22T17:47:38.172-04:00What a great prank. This is before "The Onion...What a great prank. This is before "The Onion" I'm talking about.<br /><br />The story was illustrated with the Astro-Dome cut-and-pasted over a picture of the Culpeper High School track. It was perfect.<br /><br />The story mentioned the acts that were scheduled to appear, including the Sex Pistols and Michael Jackson but noted the concern of town fathers that didn't want to limit the venue to "anarchists and hermaphrodites."<br /><br />He also wrote a tongue-in-cheek column that fateful day that quoted his fictitious friend Kwame Fabu "a professional hedonist and odds-maker" that the chance that Culpeper would ever build such a stadium were 1 in a 1,000,000 and the chance that he would stick around to see it were 1 in 1,000,000,000.<br /><br />For several weeks, we got stories on the state AP wire that the authorities were looking for Jack. They searched his apartment, couldn't find him. They questioned his friends, but Jack had vanished. Finally the commonwealth's attorney in Culpeper stated that no law had been broken so no charges were filed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674243013780968203noreply@blogger.com