As I wrote here I can’t provide any real life examples of logical fallacies but I found the following dialogue very enlightening.
A: «Al-Qaeda was not responsible for the September 11 attacks, responsibility really lay with (…).»
B: «Interesting: could you please show me the proof?»
A: «If I had been able to show you the proof, I would have been killed.»
I don’t know what kind of logical fallacy the previous sentence of A is (I’m not even sure that it could be classified as such) but it is definitely an example of one of the worst and unfortunately very common way of stupid thinking.
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Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
logical fallacies in real life
I would like to be able to provide some real life examples of logical fallacies but, as I wrote here, I’m not an expert on this subject: it’s not hard to recognize a simple LF, it’s hard to classify it.
I would suggest reading the website of Gary N. Curtis.
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I admit I didn’t do my homework 
so I tried this test to check the knowledge and the ability to recognize logical fallacies: I got a modest 60% score. What about you?
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