Several Slog/swine tippers have sent this fake-BBC story:

EU Quarantines London in Flu Panic

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.... After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s [sic] victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

...The Netherlands confirms its first case of zombie swine flu, in a three-year-old boy recently returned from Mexico. After passing away early this morning, he rose from the dead and lunged at his mother.

It's not that impressive to shove your own haw-haw-HAW zombie story onto a BBC-lookalike page. It's not that funny to put up a legitimate-looking headline saying London's been quarantined by the European Union—not today—nor is it hi-LARIOUS to joke about a zombie flu. As we discussed back on April 1, if something seems believable—like London being quarantined, or this flu having the ability to reanimate the recently deceased*—it crosses the line from funny/"audacious"/whatever into different territory.

* Read the block quote again: Despite the giveaway of the typo, it sounds completely conceivable. Our world is just not that far away from science fiction—not far enough, not by a long shot. Dead people, with all due respect, please really, really do rest in peace.