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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:27 PM Oct 2012

Fake Sandy pics

http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/fake-hurricane-sandy-photos/

some of those looked like movie stills to me, but even so I was fooled

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Fake Sandy pics (Original Post) ashling Oct 2012 OP

Thanks for posting this NV Whino Oct 2012 #1

These were on the web and facebook ashling Oct 2012 #2

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

1. Thanks for posting this

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:35 PM

Oct 2012

What possesses people to fake photos of a catastrophic event? Their posting privileges should be revoked.

ashling

(25,771 posts)

2. These were on the web and facebook

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:49 PM

Oct 2012

I posted one of these (tomb of the unknown). The point with that one is still made: Honor.

But the others, I remember thinking when I saw them "These are amazing - they look just like those disaster flicks.

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