As Abraham Lincoln said, don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
And if something sounds too good or too sensational to be true, then more than likely it isn’t. However, that didn’t stop some people falling for this fabricated extract from Jamie Vardy’s upcoming autobiography.
Twitter user George Weah’s Cousin, who recently duped Sky Sports News with some erroneous facts about Lincoln Red Imps, the Gilbraltan side who defeated Celtic in a Champions League qualifier last month, made up a story about Jamie Vardy being responsible for killing a dog.
The quote attributed to Vardy, and made into a meme, is of course completely false.
The first excerpt from Jamie Vardys forthcoming autobiography. Jamie recounts the day he killed a dog. pic.twitter.com/cnLTvOySjY
— GeorgeWeahsCousin (@WeahsCousin) August 3, 2016
But that didn’t stop stop some people falling for the tall tale, and it coming to the attention of Rebekah Vardy, the Leicester striker’s wife.
Essentially he should be in prison. https://t.co/US3OM3Yyy2
— Mostly (@mostly_grumpy) August 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/FootballingHero/status/760807635092443136
I don't even know who that Jamie vardy is but man… Maybe not confess to killing a dog in your autobiography.
— Mellow Gaming Recommends ANT! (@LV54Spacemonkey) August 3, 2016
Vardy responded by completely dismissing the story, and asked how people could fall for something which is, to be fair, very obviously fake.
https://twitter.com/RebekahVardy/status/760840457463226368
https://twitter.com/RebekahVardy/status/760838834967937025
The person who played the prank found the whole thing funny.
What you in for mate?
"Fabricated a story about a Professional Footballer killing a Labrador, you?"
— GeorgeWeahsCousin (@WeahsCousin) August 3, 2016
JOE has spoken to the man behind Twitter’s fake quote invasion before, and he told us a lot of the fun comes from seeing just how far the gullibility of the internet stretches. Don’t expect him to stop anytime soon.
