I was shocked when I read an article about hoax collections of weightless objects such as crisp packets and bottle tops. People were being encouraged to collect such items under the premise that companies such as Walkers would fund life saving operations or give valuable medical equipment to hospitals. This such collection hoax became so well known that it was parodied by Walkers in their Gary Lineker "No More Mr Nice Guy" series of ads. In the ad (ca. 2000) schoolteacher Lineker exhorted his class to bring in Walkers crisp packets - the catch being that the packets had to be full for the crisp-munching teacher. To read more about the hoaxes click on this link:
This just shows how powerful word of mouth can be, nobody collecting the packets really knew where the hoaxes had come from, however they still believed them to be true.
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Think the Walkers one has been going on for ages, I remember when I was at primary school, a girl had a liver condition and her brothers collected walkers crisp packets, in order to raise cash, only to find out afterwards it was a hoax, some people just make you sick!
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