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Example:[Collected via e-mail, October 2015] Origins: On 20 October 2015, the web site The Racket Report published an article about a supposed zombie-like attack at a Tennessee Walmart store which referenced the 18 October 2015 death of a Brazilian man aboard an Aer Lingus flight (later described as a likely drug smuggling-related overdose):An unidentified man entered a Tennessee Walmart on Tuesday, armed with nothing more than his own teeth. Eyewitnesses say the man, who look like he had been living off the streets, entered the store looking as if he was in a daze. When confronted by a Walmart employee, the homeless man lunged at the victim sinking his teeth into the employees arm. As one of the customers attempted to save the employee, the crazed man bit the shopper in the neck. This incident comes just two days after a 24-year-old Brazilian man collapsed and died aboard an Irish aircraft after biting another passenger. The man was said to possibly be on methamphetamines when he became frantic and began biting into the flesh of another passenger on board. Unfortunately, authorities say they have seen an increase in these types of attacks, calling them Zombie-Like assaults. The claim was entirely fabricated (an opportunity to do so created by that Brazilian man's recent death) by The Racket Report, a fake news site that bears a disclaimer noting that some stories on this website are fictitious: The image that accompanied the article was lifted from a news story about the March 2013 shooting of a shoplifter at a WalMart store in Memphis, Tennessee. Earlier hoax articles from the Racket Report claimed that KFC planned to begin selling marijuana, that McDonald's used french fry grease in their coffee, that McDonald's outlets in Korea served dog meat, and that a homeless man found a baby with seven legs in a Dumpster outside an abortion clinic.
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