Perhaps the strangest coincedence ever

Many of you may have read my blog entitled, "Backlash Against 'Katrina'". In said blog, I mocked up an article about how people named Katrina were being abused as if the hurricane were somehow related to them.

The first subject of my article was Katrina Burton, a fictitious woman who was receiving threathening phone calls and had her house burned down. All of this, including the name, was completely made up.

In checking through my stats, I noticed that I had received a couple visits from people searching for Katrina Burton. At first the name didn't ring a bell, so I searched for it on Google to see who it was.

The 5th search result was a USA Today article about one Katrina Burton, whose family was teasing by asking why she had ruined their houses, etc. Read the article.

The crazy thing is that at first I thought they had copied my article thinking it was real (because of the journalistic style I wrote it in). This wouldn't have been that big of a stretch if you know about the Metallica Hoax of 2003.

Anyway I was relieved to read that it was not a copy of my article but just a strange coincedence.