I keep seeing this story pop up on various blogs and forums. The reason I wanted to comment on this is because this is the original source of the story: CAP News. Notice anything about the site? It's a satirical site like the Onion. This fact is pretty obvious once you visit the site, but few people are.
The post on Failblog is where most people have seen the story now, but it provides no information on the source, plus the story has a less tongue-and-cheek tone so it's obviously not from the original website. Instead that image is taken from Opposing Views which in turn uses Terra as it's source (or more correctly, just copies it), which doesn't provide any source information at all.
This brings up something about blogs that I've really grown to dislike, it seems nobody is capable of sourcing where information originally came from. If they cite at all they just cite the blog they read it from until you just end up with a chain of blogs posts about an article that none of them of actually read.
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