Saddam Almost Escapes Using Birthday Cake
Andy Borowitz at Yubanet.com brings us an exclusive you may have missed. Strung out on incessant reruns of Hogans Heroes, Saddam Hussein has taken matters into his own hands. Using a birthday cake to hide a hacksaw and nail file the Russians have attempted to spring the Butcher of Baghdad from captivity.
What Andy failed to mention in his piece is that the suspect cake was actually a copy of the chocolate birthday cake that has become a popular favorite at 1800Dessert.com. Luckily, the US guards monitering Saddam are frequent 1800Dessert customers and were well equipped to spot the fraud thereby avoiding an international crises.