Morning radio shows all love to get into the game now of spoofing the public on April Fool's Day, including CBC Radio One where a Senator inexplicably leaves his gold-plated-pension lifestyle for the rough and tumble of civic politics. Yawn.
CKNW did an even more lame spoof around developing Lost Lagoon. It was so transparent that this was a spoof that only the blue hairs called the station in protest. If you really want to go to town on the Lost Lagoon idea, how about building a Casino on the lake? Or re-opening the lagoon to Coal Harbour and have a marina there? Start an Aqua Bus service across the pond with loud motorized boats that run until midnight? If you're going to start a controversy give it some pizazz, for Pete's sake.
You want a good gag, listen to what we did on Z95 (now Crave) on April 1st, 1994 (audio re-posted below). We got a lot of people really pissed that morning, which is the whole point of AFD, don't you think?
