A post on a satirical website stating New Brunswick will impose a 4:30 p.m. curfew on Halloween led the City of Fredericton to post a Facebook notice stating the story was fake and is resulting in a waste of police resources.
A satirical website called The Manatee indicated New Brunswick would impose a 4:30 p.m. curfew for trick-or-treaters on Halloween. (The Manatee)
The post on The Manatee suggested children "wear their costumes to school and start trick-or-treating on their walk back from the bus stop."
It stated anyone found going door-to-door after 4:30 p.m. would be fined between $100 and $500, depending on the number of children in the group and the amount of effort put into their costumes, with smaller fines issued to those with more creative costumes.
A notice from the City of Fredericton posted on Facebook stated City Hall and the city's police force had received a number of calls about the possible curfew and the false news story.
"There has been a lot of chatter on social media, but we can reassure the public that this is not the case," stated the city.
"Unfortunately, this false story led to concern from a number of residents and ended up tying up resources unnecessarily," stated the city.
"We would ask people to refrain from posting an unsubstantiated information for this reason. Specifically, increased call volume to deal with a fake story, can unnecessarily tie up police lines."
The creators of The Manatee felt the news in New Brunswick needed a bit of comic relief and started the site about one month ago.
Co-creator Alex Vietinghoff says he hopes people realize they have to watch what they read on the internet.
"I was a little nervous at first because I thought, `Oh great, what have I done?'" he said.
"But I think now it's pretty obvious to everyone that it's satirical and hopefully going forward there won't be any small crisis like that again."
The site has had about 200,000 visitors.
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