Mount Edgecumbe is a dormant volcano near Sitka, Alaska, which was the subject of an April Fool’s Day hoax.
The volcano hasn’t erupted in almost 4,000 years, but in 1974 prankster Porky Bickar flew hundreds of tires into the crater and lit them on fire, tricking locals into thinking that the volcano was active again.
The Museum of Hoaxes reports:
Six years later when Mount St. Helens erupted a Sitka resident wrote to Bickar to tell him, “This time you’ve gone too far!”
See a list of hoaxes counted down so far after the jump.
100. Bridezilla Freaks Out About Her Hairdo
99. The Joe Schmo Show
98. The Crying Indian
97. Ivar’s Underwater Billboards
96. Well to Hell
95. Great Comics Switcheroonie
94. American Cannibal
93. Nacirema Tribe
92. Indian Rope Trick
91. Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe
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Love this. I was I was nearly this creative.
Learn to fucking write properly, top poster.
Suckit, that was posted in 2010, I doubt they will even notice…
Lol
70 tires not hundreds
“See a list of hoaxes counted down so far after the jump.
100. Bridezilla Freaks Out About Her Hairdo”
THERES NO F*#$ING JUMP! BLOGGERS: LEARN WHAT A JUMP IS, THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY
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Wow, this is really funny. I wonder if somebody could do something like this today without being thrown in jail!
Fuck this crappy site I’m going back to http://www.reddit.com/r/thebestofamazon
Fuck your crappy subreddit, I’m staying on this site.
Haha, this looks amazing, like one of those college graduation pranks!
@Rob, there IS a jump, you just don’t see it if you’re reading the blog entry individually. As per any blog, EVER.
Given the horrible smell and tonnes of toxic chemicals spewing from a tire fire, the guy should have been slapped with a heavy fine and a bill for the clean-up. Oh wait, this was 1974.