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On 14 December 2015, the web site Now8News published an article positing that a Walmart shoplifter was caught red-handed when a grocery item she attempted to pilfer exploded inside of her: Nothing about this article was remotely true: It was simply another clickbait story published by Now8News, which is a fake news designed to resemble a local television news outlet. And the story itself wasn't even original but rather a rip-off of a long-circulating urban legend about a female shopper who mistakenly believes she has been shot after a can of biscuits explodes inside her hot car. The image of the alleged shoplifter used to accompany the fake Now8News article posted on the Internet as early as April 2010 and is clearly not a mugshot taken following a December 2015 crime. The accompanying photo of ambulances was taken from newspaper coverage of a mass shooting that took place, in part, at a North Carolina Walmart in June 2013. Previous clickbait hoaxes published by Now8News included claims a man was found having sex with a pig in the bathroom of a Walmart; aborted fetuses were used to make Chicken McNuggets; Walmart bananas were infested with deadly parasitic worms; a woman was arrested after engaging in a sex act with a breakfast sausage; a separate woman was arrested for trying on feminine hygiene products at Walmart; a man fed the remains of his unfaithful fiancee to her parents; a man was discovered cannibalizing a teen inside a haunted house attraction; and a lottery winner died after gold plating his genitalia. [article-meta]
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