I've Been Had!

I should know better than to believe a story that's just too good to be true.

Yesterday I posted about the Poodle Scam in Japan, only to be informed by Charlie at AnotherThink that he was informed by one of his readers that the story IS NOT TRUE!

Apparently even city-bred people in Japan can tell the difference between a sheep and a poodle and are not as gullible as we're gullible enough to believe they are.

Here's the Snopes page debunking the story.

My only consolation is that otherwise-legitimate news sources believed the story too.