Happy holidays ad: Man fakes death to get his kids to visit

It’s not even December yet and we have a clubhouse leader in the “Tear my guts out, why doncha?” competition for 2015.

You don’t need to know German.

Man fakes own death to get his kids to visit. No guilt, though, people.

About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.