> At 09:38 AM 4/26/01 -0700 Jeffrey Miller wrote:
> >It's called "ad agency doing something to be 'hip' by creating a fake
> >site and using viral marketing techniques to make a buzz for themselves"
> >
> >http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42763,00.html
>
> While we are on the topic of urban legends...... has anyone else received
> the photographs of someone cutting open a large snake in the Amazon and
> supposedly finding a human body on the inside? Anyone have a link that
> exposes the pictures as a hoax?
>
> Thanks.
>
> JDG
The hoax part is the story that's going around with those pictures, and the
sequence of pictures. The final picture showing a partially digested person
half-removed from a snake is, as far as I'm aware, real. It was in a book I
have (unfortunately in storage...) on shark attacks, in a chapter on other
beasts that have been known to eat people (nice crododile action too...).
However, the preceding pictures in the sequence are a different snake, which
has eaten *something*, probably a goat or similar, and are not related to
the final picture.
If I find the reference I go this info from, I'll be sure to post it.
Charlie
