Have you ever been asked the heralded question, “Did you know you can also spell gullible o-r-a-n-g-e?”
If you have, and especially if you have fallen for it, you are also probably one of the millions who are capable of believing anything that is virtually plastered on the World Wide Web. In case you were wondering, kittens are not capable of shooting laser beams from their corneas, and the United States government did not agree to build a remake of the Death Star, Darth Vader’s intergalactic abode, due to a signed petition of 35,000 citizens.
Tabloids used to only occupy the newsstand, but now they have nuzzled their meek, desperate frames into the public eye one too-good-to-be-true headline at a time. Normally, online gimmicks are done just to make their audience crinkle their brow while wondering, “Is that for real?”
However, some attempts for attention are financially driven.  “Toby or not to be” is the question that rabbit lovers were asking themselves years ago. Some money-hungry Internet “entrepreneurs” decided to create a website called savetoby.com, where they threatened to kill, cook and eat an innocently precious bunny unless people donated $50,000.
The get-rich-or-eat-rabbit was proved to be false when the website was bought out by bored.com, but according to Toby’s harsh captors, they made over $20,000 in donations to spare what is most likely Toby’s nonexistent life. This virtual scheme made its way onto primetime television when National Broadcasting Company covered the outlandish situation.
More recently, in our own backyard of DeQuincy, La., the town made national headlines when their “mayor” illegalized America’s new favorite past time: twerking.
The alleged mayor Maynard Wilkens described the modern dance as a “defiant act against Jesus and his teachings.”
“The rest of the country can keep their heads in the sand about this sexual act before marriage, but not the great city of DeQuincy,” Wilkens said. “We will still allow dancing in DeQuincy, just no jigglin’, shakin’ and ‘dry humping’ anywhere in our city limits.”
There have been several similar instances when DeQuincy has been the subject of such bizarre ordinances.  Ranging from a ban on Korean residents, to a school-issuance of guns to children, DeQuincy has become a hotbed for ridiculousness. The actual mayor of DeQuincy, Lawrence Hanegan, has regarded these recent reports as “hogwash”.
It is perfectly understandable to peruse through the bowels of the Internet, scavenging for the weirdest information you can find. As long as you have the filter to siphon out the malarkey, let your Google search history and your imagination run free.