APRIL FOOL DAY ( A GLOBAL PUNKING)

Denmark
                   In 1965, a Copenhagen newspaper reported that Parliament had passed a law that all dogs be painted white to improve road safety because they could then be seen clearly at night.

France
                  According to LeParisien, in 1986, the Eiffel Tower was going to be dismantled and rebuilt inside the new Euro Disney park.

Norway
                  In 1987, after reading that the government was planning to distribute 10,000 liters of wine confiscated from smugglers, hundreds of citizens turned up carring empty bottles and buckets.

China
                  Claiming that it would reduce the need for foreign experts, the China Youth Daily joked in 1933 that the government had decided to exempt PhDs from the nation's one-child-per-family policy. After foreign press picked up the hoax, the government condemned April Fools' Day as a Western tradition.

Canada
                 In 2008, West Jet airlines advertised its overhead cabin bins as "among the most spacious of any airline" and said it would charge passengers an extra $12 to use these "sleeper cabins."

Taiwan
                 In 2009, the Taipei Times claimed that "Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that the Taipei Zoo's pandas are not what they seem."  The paper reported that the pandas, a gift from the Chinese government, were brown forest bears dyed to resemble pandas.  Among the complaints sent to the paper was one from the zoo's director.

Germany
                 In 2009, BMW ran an ad promoting  its new "magnetic tow technology." The invention enabled drivers to turn off their engine and get a "free ride" by locking onto the car ahead via a magnetic beam.

Jordan
                 Residents fled the desert town of Jahr in 2010 after a local newspaper reported that flying saucers piloted by ten-foot-high creatures had landed.