Did a man break into Burger King to drink gallons of frying oil? Fact check
ByCraig Haley May 8, 2017
An article spreading online claims that a man broke into a Burger King outlet and drank 25 gallons of used frying oil.
FALSE
Despite the outlandish claims that 510lb Romeo Carter broke into a Miami based Burger King to drink gallons of cooking oil, some readers remained sceptical.
And rightly so. The story is entirely fictional. There is no “Romeo Carter” (the mugshot is someone else) and the entire story is just designed to garner likes and shares on social media. It is yet another example of fake news from a leading spoof news website worldnewsdailyreport.com.
WorldNewsDailyReport.com is a popular fake news site that often publishes this sort of fake news by creating a bizarre sounding crime and coupling it with a random mugshot found on the Internet, and then presenting both as a real life crime that recently occurred.