The Huffington Post recently posted this article from something called The Borowitz Report:

A rabid Harry Potter fan took his life yesterday after inadvertently learning a plot spoiler from the soon-to-be-released J.K. Rowling movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Jude Ralston, 32, of Hudson, Ohio left a suicide note indicating that since overhearing the plot spoiler at a shopping mall earlier in the day, “I no longer have a reason to live.”
Family and friends who gathered for a candlelight memorial outside Mr. Ralston’s house remembered a man who seemed to live only for Harry Potter – and wondered if they could have done anything to prevent his tragic fate.
“When Jude got that vanity license plate that said ‘Hogwarts,’ that seemed harmless enough,” said Polly Clovis, who attended Model U.N. with Mr. Ralston while the two were in high school. “But when he started wearing that wizard hat around town, we really should have seen that as a cry for help.”

Now, I’d never heard of the Borowitz Report before I read this article, but I figured anyone who’s not a total idiot could figure out this story is an Onion-like satire, i.e., not real.  Like the other article on Borowitz’ website, about how John Ensign wants someone to stimulate his package.  But it turns out the internet has lots of total idiots, including:

TheInsider, who reported the fake story, adding, “Do you personally think such an act is possible and necessary?”  I love when blogs ask you questions at the end of posts.  Questions say, “I’m too lazy to do my job, what do you think, anonymous person on the internet?”

ICYDK.com, who just copied and pasted the entire story.  Well done.

PerezHilton, of course, who seems to have taken his article down since then.  See?  Even the unfunny sociopath with the mind of a 3-year-old figured it out.  (eventually).

BunnywithFangs, who calls the fictional guy who killed himself “a Moron.”  Would that be considered irony?

And those are only four of 1,684 posts of this story.  Anyway, sorry to get all blogging-about-bloggers on you guys this morning, but I thought it newsworthy that people could still surprise you by how dumb they are.  And as for Huffington Post, if you guys want to report real news, you might want to take more precautions with your fake articles.  Like me, I require all my readers to wear helmets.  (Mostly because of the head butts).  [Thanks to RoboPanda for the tip]