April Fool's gags involving threats of death and destruction are never a good idea, but they're an even worse idea when you're a guy that dresses up as Batman and hangs around outside local bars with a boombox. One self-styled Dark Knight found that out the hard way Sunday when he wound up in jail.

Unless you're Mayor of Roswell, telling your constituents you have a close relationship with aliens is probably not a good idea when you've just been elected to public office. But don't tell English town councillor Simon Parkes that. Just a month after he took office, he's taken to YouTube to let the world know that his "real mother" is a 9-foot tall green alien with eight fingers.

A weird disease spreading in Africa has health officials baffled—and the symptoms may sound a little too familiar to fans of George Romero's work, or of AMC's The Walking Dead.

If you proudly and publicly put a piece of fan art based on a major Hollywood franchise up for sale, the copyright owners of said franchise might hit you with a takedown notice faster than you can say "Pattinson." But what if you get a takedown notice for something that has absolutely nothing at all to do with any major Hollywood franchise?