Posts Tagged ‘hoax’

Do you think we can trick guys into getting dragons tattooed on their faces? Yes. Yes we can.

October 13, 2008

Meet Nanang, 30, and Bambang, 40, two Indonesian men who were tricked into getting dragons tattooed on their faces. The two men were told by their village chief Sawiyono that he received a text message from a government official offering them work as Jakarta intelligence officers. One of the conditions of employment was, you guessed it, getting their faces inked. The result is below.

The village chief eventually realized it was a hoax and has offered to help the men have the tattoos removed. The person behind the hoax is believed to have been a “mystic” as the men said they felt “half-conscious” while getting the tattoos. Apparently, the Indonesian word for liquor store clerk is slightly different than it is here in the U.S.

Via National Nine News

Samuel L. Jackson’s Lost “Titanic” Screen-Test

September 12, 2008

I may have watched Titanic the whole way through if he had been cast…..NSFW language bleeped out.

Fraud: “Lost tribe” of Amazon wasn’t really lost afterall, but was a ploy by an enviromental group to stop logging of area

June 22, 2008

Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe’s existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that ‘uncontacted’ tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.

More here