A MAN woke up in hospital following surgery to find his grieving relatives thought he was dead after someone hacked into his Facebook page and said he had died on the operating table.
Rod Smith was admitted to Maidstone Hospital in Kent, England last weekend to have a simple groin operation.
The 45-year-old woke up to find his father had arrived at the hospital in tears.
Smith then learned someone had logged into his account and updated his status to say he had died from "complications" during surgery.
The message read: "Unfortunately Rod died this afternoon due to complications during an operation at Maidstone Hospital".
Smith's friends and relatives telephoned his parents to offer their condolences.
After being well enough to be released from hospital, Smith told a newspaper his father had arrived at the hospital looking "like he had been balling his eyes out".
"It is so sick that someone could do that. I was shocked. I couldn't believe it," Mr Smith said.
"It's not the sort of thing you want at their age with people ringing up and asking is it true?"
Smith's 63-year-old mother, Ann, was "furious" about the prank.
"Rod's best friend was upset because he thought it was true," she said.
"It's sick. The depths some people go to.
"It was the last thing I needed as everyone rang up to see if it was true.
"If I could get my hands on whoever did this their lives would not be worth living."
Mr Smith added: "It's bang out of order. It would have been devastating for my children if they had seen it."
The post has been deleted from Mr Smith's Facebook page and he has been advised to contact Facebook administrators to track down the prankster.
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