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* [[Dave Barry]] points this out brilliantly in his book ''Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)'' with the page quote and this one as well:
{{quote|''We see this all the time. Journalists, rushing to get a story out under deadline pressure, will report, based on preliminary information, that a ship sank, and 127 people, many of them elderly, perished. Then, upon further investigation, it turns out that nobody, in fact, perished, although one elderly person was slightly injured by a set of dentures hurled by another elderly person in an effort to get the first elderly person to stop talking so loud. Then it turns out that this happened at a nursing home, as opposed to a ship, although the elderly people were watching a video of ''[[Titanic]]'' at the time, and although there were only four of them, as opposed to 127, the nursing home is located on Route 124, which is only three less than 127, which is not that much of an error when you consider the deadline pressure that journalists operate under.''}}
* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514152825/http://boardgames.about.com/b/2003/07/07/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-board-game-in-works.htm webpage] about the [[Spin-Off]] board game for ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' claims that the characters include "Ruby Gloom and Emily the Strange", both completely unrelated [[Goth]] girls.
* A review was circulated on several sites of the ''Mortal Instruments'' trilogy by Cassandra Cla(i)re, formerly a [[Big Name Fan]] in the Harry Potter fandom. It claimed that she took the title of her books from a Harry/Draco [[Fanfic]] she had once written, and quoted a few paragraphs. In fact they came from another of her stories, and the fanfic originally titled ''Mortal Instruments'' was a tale of [[Brother-Sister Incest]] between Ron and Ginny.
** However, she had committed plagiarism in her fanfics previously, so this person had obviously done ''some'' research -- making the errors all the odder.
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