New Prius Helps Environment By Killing Its Owner

[Chuck]

Toyota's new Prius Solution reduces its driver's carbon footprint to zero by impaling them through the lungs with spikes as soon as they get in the car.

Matt Hardigree - THEONION - July 2, 2012

They could be greener and put ecospikes on doolies. --Ed.

Building beige cars has not worked out for Toyota in the same way building environmentally friendly cars has. Now, the Japanese automaker has found a way to combine its commitment to a greener future with its bad killing people habit.

This, according to the Onion News Network, which has the benefit of making up the news. Or, well, has the benefit of making up the news more frequently and getting away with it.... [Read More]

[Indigo]

The Onion is classic awesomeness. They also have a fake Marlboro ad where the cigarette maker allegedly spins its carcinogenic product as "eco-friendly" because smokers die a lot sooner and thus have fewer years to damage the planet.

The Onion also has an archive video of the "missing" additional verses of the Star Spangled Banner, featuring stanzas like "We will beat them with chains / Burn their eyes out with flames / and laugh while they scream / and then we'll rape who remains."

Some of the articles look amazingly legit at first glance, which makes the Onion the perfect satire site.

[Chuck]

^ It is a humorous site.

[waltermlee]

You can't kill people fast enough to help mother nature - however, if we could sterilize people -- mother nature might eventually be able to catch up. ;-)

[RedylC94]

The fake Marlboro ad is somewhat true, but Marlboros have the drawback being too slow-acting to kill them before they breed.