Comments on: Abel Raises Cain, A Documentary On Legendary Prankster Alan Abel http://laughingsquid.com/abel-raises-cain-a-documentary-on-legendary-prankster-alan-abel/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wil http://laughingsquid.com/abel-raises-cain-a-documentary-on-legendary-prankster-alan-abel/comment-page-1/#comment-599060 Wil Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:07:43 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=22121#comment-599060 Am I the only one unable to find external information about many of the pranks listed in the timeline on Abel's website? For instance, a fake cop chasing a fake referee off the field of the Super Bowl seems like the sort of thing that would be mentioned in the news reports from that time, yet Google, NY Times, etc. all turn up absolutely zero. Likewise, many of the newspaper articles reprinted on the site don't appear in the online archives for those papers. The two most common hits searching for his pranks seem to be either Abel's web site or Wikipedia. Resume padding? Another prank? Mainstream media conspiracy? The internet's short memory? Am I the only one unable to find external information about many of the pranks listed in the timeline on Abel’s website? For instance, a fake cop chasing a fake referee off the field of the Super Bowl seems like the sort of thing that would be mentioned in the news reports from that time, yet Google, NY Times, etc. all turn up absolutely zero. Likewise, many of the newspaper articles reprinted on the site don’t appear in the online archives for those papers. The two most common hits searching for his pranks seem to be either Abel’s web site or Wikipedia.

Resume padding? Another prank? Mainstream media conspiracy? The internet’s short memory?

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