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The great dutch pancake hoax

YESTERDAY a hoax petition did nothing very much.

But because it was calling for “Ban chips on a stick and Dutch pancakes from the Canberra Multicultural Festival” certain sections of the local media decided to run with it.

One of the hoaxsters, Leon Twardy, has shared his thoughts about it:

I’ve posted hundreds of awareness articles about human rights to my facebook, but it took 6 people signing a petition against pancakes to get media notice.

I figured it was a joke, and wrote my real name to sign, because honestly, sometimes the justification can come second. But I made sure that what I wrote was so absurd, so ridiculous, that no one could take it seriously.

TheRiotAct immediately took it as sincere. And then the story Mat’s petition (now with about nine signatures) was taken up by 2CC, and even the Canberra Times.

There’s deep meanings to be found about the shallowness of the media’s reporting, and it was the comedy highlight of my year, but was my friend actually sincere?

“Dutch pancakes are fine but need to be in an area that doesn’t clog traffic for the rest of the stalls at all. Chips on a stick can get f***ed though.”

[Photo by Cheryl Foong, attribution licence]

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