Several years ago my dad had a friend in PA who had a stuffed
animal made that looked like a dead black bear and would hang
it a tree in his yard in bear season. From a distance it looked
like an actual dead bear until you got closer. People would
drive buy and slow down to see the bear, and several got out
of their cars and walked up to it to discover it was a joke.
This guy had one heck of a sense of humor, I believe he passed
recently.