The lessons of the hoax video
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By now you've probably seen the video of the eagle snatching a kid from a park.
A lot of work went into proving that it's a fake, including this proof (courtesy of this tweeter)that the eagle's shadow disappeared when it shouldn't have...
But now, three students in a design class in Montreal have taken credit for the hoax, and the school has put out a press release touting the number of hoaxes its students have pulled thanks to the things they learned at the school, a release so ridiculous that it's probably fake, too.
That's a little sad, but not as sad as this: Nobody seemed to have determined it was a hoax purely on the basis of the absurdity of the notion that someone would keep filming while a raptor swooped down to steal a baby nearby.
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