Believing what you see

[urbpan]

I won't post it because I suspect it's a viral video advertisement and they don't need my help, but there's a very convincing video out there of a large bird of prey swooping down and lifting a toddler a few feet before dropping it. It blew up on my twitter page last night around midnight, with people from disparate sources suddenly talking about it at once. That to me is the biggest evidence that it is part of a marketing campaign and not a real event. If it's real it will be picked up by legitimate journalists, and it will be kind of a big story. But I don't think it is.

Edit: we seem to have identified our hoaxers. I'm pleased that it was a not-for-profit operation.

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[stephbg.livejournal.com]

It was shown on our local news service as a real story, which gives you some idea of the quality of journalism we enjoy here. Perhaps they were distracted by the 14 tiger sharks feeding in shallow water off a local beach. That one was definitely true.