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Just like Michael Jackson.
Pretty interesting stuff. Those spiders sound scary but scorpians and whatnot are way worse to me.
Didn't you already figure out that the camel spiders' deadliness was an April Fool's hoax.
the camel spider has been all over the somethingawful forums for a few months. it took a while for them to figure out that most of the horror stories weren't true, but it's still used in photoshops. i mean, goddamn those things are scary looking.
thanks for the link, tones.
Maybe you could just bring a flashlight.
Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication TOP <#top>
e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes:
I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.
I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site.
Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading.
I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl fantasy. Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much space as the Web site itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know.
Mary Mycio, J.D.
Legal Program Director
IREX U-Media
Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16
Kyiv 01023, Ukraine
Tel: (380-44) 220-6374, 228-6147
Fax: 227-7543
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.a...&threadid=8951
Shit, she fooled me.
Sounds like an awesome vacation spot.
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Of course she wasnt alone! Does she posses an extra arm sticking out of her back that can hold a camera, focus, and take a friggin' picture? Common people.
Uhh..she said she was alone.
I could give two shits whether she was alone, riding a motorcycle, or even supposed to be there. The pictures told most of the story and it was goddamn captivating. If this is just a fantasy, it's a very well told one.