 HIPPO EATS DWARF: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. 
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Hoax Photo Test Answers: Level Four
REAL  This San Diego gym is testament to the fact that Californians will happily work out for hours in a gym, but refuse to walk up a few stairs. We'll also get in our cars instead of walking one block. I know this photo isn't a hoax because I live in San Diego and I've seen this gym from my car as I've driven by. HOAX  A beautiful picture, but it's a composite of a number of different satellite photos. REAL  A real, unaltered photo taken by photographer Kurt Jones on April 19, 2003 (you can order prints of the photo from his website). But that's a dolphin in the wave... not a shark! HOAX  I hope no one fell for this obvious gag. The man's finger has simply been digitally pasted over his eye. HOAX   Louis Vuitton is not selling designer SARS masks. The mask in this image is a digital creation. The original, unaltered image is on the right. REAL  On March 6, 2003 a C-5 Galaxy (one of the largest airplanes in the world) did get stuck on top of a military runway that crosses over the I-564 in Virginia. This photo was taken during the incident. (Read More About This) HOAX   The photo on the right (of a single waterspout) was taken in June 2001 in the Gulf of Mexico. Someone then improved the picture by adding two more waterspouts. HOAX  There's no record of jets flying in a 'USA' formation over Randolph Air Force Base. The jets in this picture are all digital additions. REAL  A photograph taken by Navy Photographer Michael J. Pusnik in late October 2003 in the wake of the forest fires that destroyed thousands of homes in San Diego. This photo circulated around the internet with the caption 'Lucky Bastard.' Miraculously, this single house did survive while everything around it was burned to the ground. (Read More About This) REAL  Munchkin (as the cat in this picture has been termed) does seem too big to be real, and for a long time I thought the photo was a hoax. But I was wrong (as was the Sydney Morning Herald). Munchkin is real. His actual name was Sassy, and he weighed forty pounds. His owner was Susan Martin of Ontario. (I use the past tense because Sassy died of heart disease.) (Read More About This) |
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