Here are three news items about dads, fathers, and daddies. Two of them are real stories…and the third one we made up. Why? Because we thought it would be fun to see if you can guess which one is too weird to be true. (The answer is at the end of the post.)

A.

A recent survey conducted by Amazon.com asked customers what they were most likely to purchase for their dads as a Father’s Day gift. Most of the responses were expected: gadgets, humorous books, and ties. However, an inexplicably high number of respondents—14 percent—said they planned on buying their dads nautical equipment, such as a sextant or captain’s hat.

B.

What does Dad want to do on Father’s Day, a holiday to celebrate family? Get away from the family by going to the most un-family friendly place imaginable: a strip club! A “gentlemen’s club” in Long Island is betting that a lot of dads will show up on Father’s Day so they’re offering a promotion: the first 100 dads get free admission and a free lap dance. Residents of the neighborhood where the club operates (it doesn’t have a liquor license, so men as young as 18 may enter) have called the promotion “tasteless and crass.”

C.

In late May, a man drove all the way from his home in Indiana to Davenport, Iowa, a trip of five hours, to watch his son play in his first minor league baseball game of the year. The son, 22, is a first baseman for the Quad Cities River Bandits, a class-A farm team of the Houston Rockets. In the sixth inning of the game, the kid hit a three-run home run, which would turn out to be the game-winning play. It was also his first home run of the season, but here’s the amazing part: He hit it into the outfield stands where it was caught…by his dad, and barehanded to boot.

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