Generally, less intelligent men are under the impression that the Lord has no form. Therefore He appears in His original form as Krsna, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], to carry out His mission of participating in the Battle of Kuruksetra and pastimes to protect the devotees and vanquish the demons (paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]). This is His mercy. For those who think that He has no form and no work to do, Krsna comes to show that indeed He works. He works so gloriously that no one else can perform such uncommon acts. Although He appeared as a human being, He married 16,108 wives, which is impossible for a human being to do. The Lord performs such activities to show people how great He is, how affectionate He is and how merciful He is. Although His original name is Krsna (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam), He acts in unlimited ways, and therefore according to His work He has many, many thousands of names.
SB 6.4.33

As I visited one of the local councillors he announced that he would lie to join as the Daily Telegraph had an article stating that one of our Gurus has 16,000 wives; this is a marvellous idea.

I was slightly confused so asked to see the article, it was in a list of facts and stated “16,108 is the number of wives Krsna has”

As you can see t is written in the present tense, so the connection was made that the Guru named Krsna has 16,000+ wives and he was living now somewhere in this planet we call earth.

Well I must confess to being a little lost for words but also amused by the innocent mistake, so we see a little knowledge about Krsna’s pastimes written without explanation and understanding can lead to some wild but interesting interpretations.