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Re: IT's a HOAX people! Wow are some people gullible!

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Subject: Re: IT's a HOAX people! Wow are some people gullible!
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:57:05 -0500
I think the owners should be sterilzed so they can't breed more idiots - the
world has plenty.

Just my $.02

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Moore" <james.moore14@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>; "Alex Avery" <aavery@rica.net>;
"Mark Sedlack" <msedlack@neo.rr.com>; "roadster" <roadster@rcn.com>;
<Eschcool2@aol.com>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: IT's a HOAX people! Wow are some people gullible!


> I have almost firsthand knowledge that this is true. One of my friends is
a
> Rep for VWoA covering the DC area (note this happened in Waldorf MD about
20
> miles from where I live) and he actually saw the car at one of his
dealers.
>
> Jim Moore
> 69 2000 RHD
> Dunkirk MD
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>
> To: "Alex Avery" <aavery@rica.net>; "Mark Sedlack" <msedlack@neo.rr.com>;
> "roadster" <roadster@rcn.com>; <Eschcool2@aol.com>;
> <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: IT's a HOAX people! Wow are some people gullible!
>
>
> > Well, if you follow the link in the message you replied to, you'll find
> > other pictures from other angles.  You'll also see that your
> > explanation of the board going through the roof is incorrect as there
> > is a pile of lumber on the passenger-side that makes the rest of it
> > tilt at an angle, not lie parallel to the ground.
> >
> > Now was this a joke or stunt?  Possibly.  But the picture(s) appear
> > legit, and to be honest, if Snopes thinks it's true, it probably is.
> > He's been featured worldwide regarding urban legends.
> >
> > --- Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net> wrote:
> > > I'm so sick of this junk photo being claimed as real. It aint real
> > > people.
> > >
> > > 1. Take a straight edge and follow the path of the underlying
> > > 2x4s--you'll
> > > see the lumber goes right through the roof of the car by mid-roof.
> > > The back
> > > passenger window would've broken when the door frame was crushed by
> > > the
> > > lumber, as would the back windshield.  They're fine, defying all
> > > physics.
> > >
> > > 2. Try putting that many 4x4s and plywood stacked up at that steep
> > > angle,
> > > with the only thing holding them together being some badly tied nylon
> > > cord.
> > >  It won't hold, and even if it did hold, it would slide/splay
> > > downhill like
> > > a deck of cards.  In the pic they're amazingly held all together and
> > > with
> > > barely any sliding at all.
> > >
> > > 3. The lumber is tied to the car by the windshield wipers, driver's
> > > seat or
> > > some other silly attachment point, rather than going under the car as
> > > would
> > > be logical. This makes absolutely no sense.
> > >
> > > Just because there's a web page claiming its real with a bunch of
> > > superfluous details (Home Depot, Rt. 925, the police showed up, etc.)
> > > doesn't make it so. For that matter, if the whole thing was that big
> > > a
> > > spectacle, with police, etc. where were the pics of the car after
> > > they took
> > > all the lumber off? Why only one picture, and not a dozen.  If I'd
> > > gone to
> > > all the trouble to buy a camera to take a picture of something that
> > > amazing, I'd shoot the whole roll.
> > >
> > > Use common sense people!
> > > Alex in VA
> > >
> > > At 09:23 AM 11/16/01 -0500, Mark Sedlack wrote:
> > > >Not a hoax folks - see
> > > http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/photos/lumber.htm for
> > > >more pictures and newspaper articles of same car.
> > > >
> > > >Mark Sedlack
> > > >OROC
> > > >Cuyahoga Falls OH
> > > >66 1600 http://home.neo.rr.com/mark2000/images/datsun1600/
> > > >77 280Z http://home.neo.rr.com/mark2000/Myz.jpg
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "roadster" <roadster@rcn.com>
> > > >To: <Eschcool2@aol.com>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > > >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 5:44 AM
> > > >Subject: Re: O.T. Idiot of the Month Award
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> Fake! I don't doubt that some people actually try things like
> > > that, but
> > > >this
> > > >> picture was debunked as an urban legend and was doctored.
> > > >>
> > > >> Fred - So.SF
> > > >>
> > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: <Eschcool2@aol.com>
> > > >> To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > > >> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:49 PM
> > > >> Subject: Re: O.T. Idiot of the Month Award
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> > This isnt a roadster but, well you just got to see it.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > http://www.yellowdogracing.com/losers/jetta_ply.jpg
> > > >>
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