911 Hoaxes Make Life Just a Little Harder
There’s the letter you’re supposed to get from the Klingerman Foundation. In it will be a little piece of foam, damp with deadly biological agents.
Not. It’s an old urban legend that was first discovered in April of 2000, resuscitated by vicious pranksters to make our lives just a little more miserable in this scary time. Or, just maybe, it’s psychological warfare perpetrated by terrorists.
Or, how about the picture above? Did you get it in your E-mail? It’s a hoax, of course. The jet is coming from the wrong direction, for one thing. For another, the plane is clearly a digital insert into the photo.
Or the story of the rescue worker who got a cellphone call from her husband trapped in the rubble beneath her feet. Never happened.
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