'Alien landing' prank causes panic in Jordan
The mayor of Jafr, 185 miles east of Jordan's capital Amman, is considering suing a newspaper after their April Fools Day joke caused widespread panic.
Jordanian paper Al-Ghad's front-page story described flying saucers carrying '10ft tall' aliens had landing in the small desert town late at night.
Jafr's mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, described the disruption caused by the story:
"Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents," Mr Mleihan told the Associated Press.
He was swift to call in the security authorities, who he said then combed the area looking for the aliens. A Jordanian security official, speaking anonymously, said an emergency plan was almost enacted in Jafr.
While it has become somewhat traditional across much of the world for newspapers to publish hoax articles on 1 April, it is not a common practice in Jordan.
Managing editor of Al-Ghad, Moussa Barhoumeh, apologised for any inconvenience and tried to defuse the situation, saying "We meant to entertain, not scare people,".
Source: AP & BBC
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LOL, those silly Jordans will believe anything you tell them.
Lou
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Jordanians are pretty goof, too.
"He was swift to call in the security authorities, who he said then combed the area looking for the aliens"
BLAHAHAHA!!!
I hope the people who believed in the aliens will see their folly. Focus on God and not flying saucers.
I hope the people who believe in god will see their folly and focus more on the feasible things in life.
"Focus on God and not Flying Saucers..."
So replace one imaginary thing with another imaginary thing... Only, I've never heard of 'Aliens' telling people to fly airplanes into buildings, or blow themselves up in crowded markets...
Life without God is meaningless. Jesus Rules!
cause focusing on god has been working out so well for the middle east
aliens existing is more likely than god
I think people who try to argue their beleifs to other people are fools...
"flying saucers carrying '10ft tall' aliens"
It actually was the jews' state basketball team.
Why didn't mayor Meihan just call Michael Jordan to defend?
10ft. Aliens??? Hey, I thought Allah was a descendant of the Annunakis. So was Yahwe, but the Land of Nod in Genesis left a lot of people sorta confused.
Long Live the Aliens!
OWNED!!!!!!!!!!1
Epic comment thread. Yes, aliens are a lot more likely to exist than God.
The concept of God is just as laughable as the concept of Santa Claus - same general concept, an invisible entity with magical powers keeping track of who's been naughty or nice. The only difference is, they eventually tell you that one of them is fake. It's up to you to dismiss the other. And, if you still believe in 2000 year old fairy tales when you're grown up, please do me a favor and skip my house. I am not in need of supernatural crutches to get me through life. Life without God/Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/FSM is NOT meaningless for me and others who choose the road less traveled.
And, yes, I do believe strongly in the possibility of alien intelligence. Carl Sagan said once that if we are really alone in the universe, it's a terrible waste of space!
Let me guess FOX news told them it was true so it must have been.
"Life without God/Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/FSM is NOT meaningless for me and others who choose the road less traveled."
so what about the afterlife?
if youre right then you have nothing to worry about. live it up. but if there is a God and you have been wrong all this time, then youre screwed and its up to God to decide what to do to you. aliens do not exist. we are special and unique in this universe because of God