The following "news story" has been making the Internet rounds for the past few days and even turned up in the U.K. tabloid The Sun on Tuesday:
Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was hit with a $100,000 lawsuit last week by his ex-girlfriend Rossie Brovent. She claims that her boyfriend was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on her back but instead tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it.
Not a word of which is true, come to find out. The image above may well be authentic, say investigators at The Smoking Gun, but there's no record of any such lawsuit, nor of the existence of a "Rossie Brovent," nor of a licensed tattoo artist in or around Dayton, Ohio named Ryan Fitzgerald.
Their verdict: "fable."
Read more about it:
• The Sun: Tat-Poo for Cheating
• Viral Story About Poor Woman Stuck with Poop Tattoo Is Totally Full of Crap
• The Truth About the Girl with the Poop Tattoo
Comments
A famous host-turned AFL star from Adelaide, South Australia was named Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald. How common exactly is that name combination?