Yahoo! baby revealed as hoax
An off-beat news story that did the rounds recently was a Romanian couple naming their child ‘Yahoo!’ to express their joy at having first met over the Internet.
It would have been a good story, if it was true. Reuters now reports that the story was fictitious and the reporter responsible – working for a Romanian tabloid – has been fired.
‘It was the reporter’s child’s birth certificate, which he modified,’ the news agency quotes the Libertatea’s deputy editor-in-chief, Simona Ionescu. ‘We fired him.’
Surely the name itself was a giveaway – Google would have been a more suitable name for a baby? It brings to mind the e-baby delivered by a children’s charity a few years ago – Barnardo’s launches e-baby. Have your say, by leaving a comment via the link below.
from: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/68700/yahoo-baby-revealed-as-hoax.html
note: this isn’t the original article i read on CNN (from Reuters)
