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  • 2016-04-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Paul Teutul Death Hoax (ro)
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  • On 18 April 2016, the gasoline society web site Iron Demons published an article reporting that Paul Teutul, Sr., star of the popular American Chopper motorcycle-themed reality TV series, had been killed in a motorcycle crash in Louisiana: Iron Demons quickly scrubbed the article from their site, but rumors about Teutul's alleged death persisted on social media: Iron Demons had inserted Paul Teutul, Sr.'s name into a real news story about a fatal motorcycle crash that took place near New Orleans on 3 April 2016. The web site used the same location, vehicle details and names as an article published by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, replacing the name of the real victim, Mark Harmon, with that of the reality TV star: Orange County Choppers, the custom motorcycle manufacturing firm that Teutul co-founded, dismissed the rumor of his death on their Facebook page: Teutul himself weighed in on the matter on his public Facebook page: (en)
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