I've fallen and I can't get up

A) Avalanche can't stop 91-year-old hiker
B) Dog thrown off overpass by stranger
C) Fireworks fall into Wrestlemania crowd

A) is fake.
A Utah dog (B) was thrown off an overpass (she's recovering well), and fireworks and cables (C rained onto the audience of an Orlando Wrestlemania show (they're recovering well).
See which headline is fake.

Family law

A) Cops: Mom brought baby to robbery
B) Grandma's Disney trip leads to kidnapping charge
C) Aunt charged in murder too obese for jail

B) is fake.
A young mom toted her baby along on an armed bank robbery (A), and a half-ton woman was charged with murder (C).
See which headline is fake.

A stone's throw

A) Glenn Beck: $53 trillion asteroid heading our way
B) Police: Girl tried to rob store with rock
C) Sculptor crushed by boulder as he works

C) is fake
Glenn Beck warns of a coming disaster (disappointingly, the asteroid is metaphorical) (A), and a Nashville girl threw a rock at a convenience store clerk and then demanded money (B).
See which headline is fake.

Peril surrounds us

A) 2-year-old girl falls 45 feet down a well
B) Superman costume can't prevent mugging
C) Man drilling hole with gun kills wife

B) is fake.
Rescuers are attempting to pull Baby Jessica 2.0 from a well in India (A), and a Missouri man accidentally shot his wife while using a gun to drill a hole in their bedroom wall (C).
See which headline is fake.

Bath time

A) "Sweat cure" is big for asthmatics
B) Salmonella stops town from showering
C) I (heart) mom, newborn kitty's fur says

A) is fake (seriously, don't try it).

A Colorado town can't bathe for a while (B), and an itty-bitty kitty's fur spells out a message of love for its conveniently named mom (C).
See which headline is fake.

Things are looking up

A) Man declared dead feels 'pretty good'
B) Automotive fuel efficiency suddenly sexy
C) Gruesome murders give town a tourism boost

C) is fake.
An Oklahoma man who was declared brain dead was saved from organ harvesting after he moved his foot and hand (A). And gas-guzzling cars are finally going out of style (B).
See which headline is fake.

Twice bitten, once shy

A) Rat bites woman on toilet
B) Boy, 3, bitten twice by rattlesnake
C) Man bites dog who attacked wife

"Man bites dog" (C) is fake.

A London woman was bitten by a rat (A), and a Texas boy was bitten by a snake (B).
See which headline is fake.

Man + animal: Eat, pray, love

A) Woman, 66, nabs chicken store robber
B) Town unveils life-size statue of hero terrier
C) Couple wear sweaters from dead dogs' fur

B) is fake.

An elderly woman wrestled a would-be KFC robber to the ground in Washington (A), and a British couple conjured up a really creepy way of remembering their deceased pets (C). See which headline is fake.

Personal matters

A) Denied exit, child uses lunch box as toilet
B) Stripper-turned-mayor keeps on dancing
C) Divorcing man selling 'whole life' on eBay

B) is fake.

An Orlando teacher refused to allow a student to leave the room, and suffered the sad consequences (A), and a heartbroken Australian man is hoping for a fresh start by selling all his worldly possessions (C).
See which headline is fake.

Gone with the wind (special all-video edition)

A) Horse tries to outrun tornado in Atlanta *Video*
B) Wind crumples building's roof like paper *Video*
C) Flamingos free after storm wrecks cage *Video*

C) is fake.
Caught on tape, however: A horse breaking from its carriage to try to escape Georgia storms (A) and a large roof pulling free from a building in Texas (B).
See which headline is fake.

First, take off your clothes

A) Family fills pool with orange juice
B) Potty school really gets 'em going
C) Naked man runs amok in grocery store

A) is fake.
Several hospitals around the country are offering toilet training classes (B) for recalcitrant tots. A drunk, naked Pennsylvania man went wild with a forklift in a grocery store (C). (Helpful second headline: "He wasn't wearing clothes.")
See which headline is fake.

Lessons in excess

A) Hundreds of cats found; woman arrested
B) 450-pound man barred from marathon
C) Girl's fiancé, 22, deemed too old for prom

B) is fake.
A ranch near Pittsburgh was discovered with way too many sick cats (A), and an Illinois high school junior has a fiance with way too many birthdays (C). See which headline is fake.

Mistakes were made

A) Obit writer charged with murder
B) Could John Ritter have been saved?
C) Go-cart scalps woman during birthday party

A) is fake.
John Ritter (B) could still be with us now, according to lawyers. A 9-year-old's birthday went horribly wrong (C) for one mom, though at least she lived to tell the tale. See which headline is fake.

Animal planet

A) Toddler and puppy wander 80 miles from home
B) Town putting $5 bounty on stray cats
C) Dolphin rescues stranded whales

A) is fake.
An Iowa town is considering a kitty bounty (B). A New Zealand bottlenose (C) herded two pygmy sperm whales around a dangerous sandbar and out to sea. (Phew!) See which headline is fake.

Women's work

A) Woman faces fine for pink poodle
B) Woman orders coffee, gets barista's kidney
C) Woman smashes world hula-hooping record

C) is fake
A Denver woman dyed her dog (A) with beet juice and Kool-aid to raise awareness for breast cancer, and a generous Starbucks employee (B) donated a kidney to a longtime customer. See which headline is fake.

There oughta be a law

A) For this couple, 10th marriage is the charm
B) KKK vendor fights to sell his racist goods
C) Law to make tongue kissing minors a sex offense


A) is fake.
The Redneck Shop (B) in Laurens, South Carolina, is under threat of lawsuit for selling KKK robes and other supremacist must-haves. And, somewhat creepily, Virginia state legislators passed a law regarding pre-teen French-kissing habits (C).
See which headline is fake.

Man + Machine = Mixed Results

A) BBQ-turned-'Robocop' chases off bums
B) Pen factory opens in old pencil-factory site
C) Mom who power-washed tot turns self in


B) is fake.
There is a "barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water about 20 feet" (A) in Atlanta, and an unwise Orlando mom (C) sprayed her poor kid at the car wash, yeah.
See which headline is fake.

It's a numbers game

A) 8% of Americans can't identify Lincoln
B) $6 million diamond is size of strawberry
C) 4-year-old drunk at school


A) is fake.
The fruit-size diamond (B) is real, and so is the tipsy tot (C). See which headline is fake.

That Seems Somehow Wrong edition

A) Model sues mom over jeans
B) Woman gives birth to identical in-vitro triplets
C) Pet rat's artwork sells for more than $3500


A) is fake
The babies (B) were born ; the rat (C) is an artist.
See which headline is fake.

When Pigs Fly edition

A) Soap fans: We want more of gay story
B) Clinton relaxes with beer, Ted Danson
C) Chess Grandmaster prefers Scrabble


C) is fake.
Soap fans (A) love the gays, and Hillary (B) loves Ted Danson. See which headline is fake.

You shouldn't be eating Gorton's anyway

A) "Look Who's Talking" baby is all grown up
B) Dog or robot chases loneliness away
C) Pills found in fish prompt Gorton's recall


A) is fake.
Dogs and robots (B) do make good companions, and a woman in New Freedom, PA, found pills (C) in her frozen fish.
See which headline is fake.