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http://tom.hanks.swellserver.com/news/top_...new_zealand.php

 

Oh My Gahh!

 

Now the weird thing is that just in the past few days there have been 2 fake reports of his death.

One by the Harvard Lampoon
http://www.cinematical.com/2005/08/02/tom-...-in-60-seconds/

And a parody video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavY2klwXVI

I am having my daughter who works for a major studio in Hollywood check it out now. I hope this is a fake as well, but I just saw an interview with him talking about going to New Zealand to film a new movie.

 

It's a prank.

BTW, it doesn't take more than 1 minute of searching on google to figure that out. hint: google news "tom hanks"

 

I've done more than one minute of google and if it is a joke, which I hope it is, they are doing a good job of making it look like a breaking story.

In a short while I'll have it straight from Hollywood. They are all aghast as well.

 

the ancient art of fact checking would come in handy here. Maybe a corroborating source, or any listed source at all.

http://wildncrazy.swellserver.com/news/top...new_zealand.php

 

i hope he didn't die. he is a good actor!

 

Hopefully this report is true. I just received this from my daughter.

Spurred to action by rumors "swirling" on "the Internet" that Tom Hanks had tumbled to his doom off a cliff during a film shoot New Zealand, TMZ.com lurched into debunking mode, receiving assurances directly from New Zealand officials that no reports of fatal accidents involving world-famous personages had been made, then discovering photographic evidence that the actor was seen alive as recently as yesterday in California, shooting Charlie Wilson's War.

(Still not dead as a result of a para-gliding mishap: Will Ferrell. Probably.)

As it turns out, the "swirl" of the fabricated Hanks tragedy seems to consist entirely of a story generated by this prank site, which makes sending your favorite stars to a grisly, accidental death on the same New Zealand cliffs simplicity itself. Start your own easily debunked rumor today!

 

Prank, you can tell by the url.

http://samuel.l.jackson.swellserver.com/ne...new_zealand.php

http://blahblahblah.swellserver.com/news/t...new_zealand.php

etc

 

That's terrible. Samuel L. Jackson & blahblahblah both died with Tom Hanks.

Well they say deaths come in 3s.