Internet Hoaxes: The psychic in Texas, 152 FB friends on your arm

Some of the police who were involved in the hunt for a mass grave in Liberty County. The operation is said to have cost around $1-m.

I must admit even I jumped on yesterday’s bandwagon of the dismembered bodies being found in East Texas here are my tweets:

Dozens Of Bodies Found Buried – Houston News Story Read Current News & Views onhttp://t.co/dGAGgu3

E. Texas deputies are on the scene of a home in #Hardin where a tipster told them 25 to 30 bodies are buried. http://t.co/dGAGgu3,

Well by now we all know it was a hoax just like the woman with 152 FB friends tattooed on her arm.

Me again:

Woman Gets Tattoo on Arm of 152 Facebook Friends Read Current News & Views onhttp://t.co/dGAGgu3 , #CNV, #News

 

Social Media you gotta take the good and the bad. Click on the link below to see how this story spread like the Wallow wild fires.

We have also embedded the video of what is now being reported by Forbes that Rotterdam tattoo artist Dex Moelker, who owns the shop where the alleged tatting occurred, confessed. “It is a try-out tattoo, a transfer, that washes off in a couple of days,” he told a Dutch paper. Apparently, it took just a few hours, not 30, to apply

[View the story “How the story of dismembered bodies at a Texas farmhouse fell apart” on Storify]

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