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[[Image:Cmfl.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Faked news article that fooled Stephen Merchant.]]


==Karls Views==
The '''Cambodian Midget Fighting League''' was featured in a BBC article that claimed that forty midgets had a fight with a lion and lost, leaving twenty eight of them. The article was quickly proven to be a spoof and not by the BBC but it was still featured on [[The Ricky Gervais Podcast]] ([[Podcast_Series_1#Episode_Two|Series 1 Episode Two]]) when [[Stephen Merchant]] read the story to [[Karl Pilkington]] and [[Ricky Gervais]] without mentioning its phony status. Ricky thought the midgets deserved their deaths and injuries for exploiting an animal, and refused to blame the animal because it was acting out of instinct.
This was featured on [[The Ricky Gervais Podcast]] [[Podcast Series 1| Series 1]] Episode 2


==Origins of the story==
"It was created to 'settle' a dispute between a friend of mine in which he claimed that 40 weaponless midgets could defeat 1 lion in a hypothetical fight. Many of my other friends and I tried to convince him that the lion would definitely win, but he would not back down from his argument. After seeing another fake article posing as BBC about 'zombism' in Cambodia, I got the idea to make this fake news article to try and convince him for the final time." [http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/ 1]


==External Links==
The creator of the article explained that:
 
''"It was created to 'settle' a dispute between a friend of mine in which he claimed that 40 weaponless midgets could defeat 1 lion in a hypothetical fight. Many of my other friends and I tried to convince him that the lion would definitely win, but he would not back down from his argument. After seeing another fake article posing as BBC about 'zombism' in Cambodia, I got the idea to make this fake news article to try and convince him for the final time."'' [http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/ 1]


[http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/lionvsmidgets.htm Original Article]


[http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/ More Information]
==External Links==


[http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/lionmidget.asp Urban Legend]
*[http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/lionvsmidgets.htm Original Article]
*[http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/lionmidget.asp Snopes.com]

Revision as of 18:12, 14 May 2006

Faked news article that fooled Stephen Merchant.

The Cambodian Midget Fighting League was featured in a BBC article that claimed that forty midgets had a fight with a lion and lost, leaving twenty eight of them. The article was quickly proven to be a spoof and not by the BBC but it was still featured on The Ricky Gervais Podcast (Series 1 Episode Two) when Stephen Merchant read the story to Karl Pilkington and Ricky Gervais without mentioning its phony status. Ricky thought the midgets deserved their deaths and injuries for exploiting an animal, and refused to blame the animal because it was acting out of instinct.


The creator of the article explained that:

"It was created to 'settle' a dispute between a friend of mine in which he claimed that 40 weaponless midgets could defeat 1 lion in a hypothetical fight. Many of my other friends and I tried to convince him that the lion would definitely win, but he would not back down from his argument. After seeing another fake article posing as BBC about 'zombism' in Cambodia, I got the idea to make this fake news article to try and convince him for the final time." 1


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