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motco

Original Poster

17,306 posts

268 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Someone sent me this picture allegedly taken by a Kellog employee (why that would add to its veracity I know not). Personally I thinks it's fake. What say the PH collective?

vixpy1

42,697 posts

286 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Very fake.

chim_knee

12,689 posts

279 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

My guess... a fake.

The sea looks awfully pixelated compared to the rest of the pic. Like it's been enlarged too much...

TurboNelly

601 posts

261 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Yep, looks fake to me.

Mikey G

4,849 posts

262 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Fake, that one wave would have to be 100ft!

chim_girl

6,268 posts

281 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Wanna buy a watch from me, it's a Rolex, but you can have it for £100 instead of £6000.

vixpy1

42,697 posts

286 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

chim_girl said:
Wanna buy a watch from me, it's a Rolex, but you can have it for £100 instead of £6000.

Yeah, me, I do!

Oh ..

GregE240

10,857 posts

289 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

chim_girl said:
Wanna buy a watch from me, it's a Rolex, but you can have it for £100 instead of £6000.

I'll take 60 please at that price!!

Its fake. For goodness sake, those waves would be 200ft high....

Plotloss

67,280 posts

292 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Fake as Jordans knockers.

Did anyone come across this story today that during the day of the Tsunami no animals were killed because they all legged it and primitive local tribes took to the high ground hours before the wave hit.

Absolutely fascinating.

FourWheelDrift

91,757 posts

306 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

The wave looks like it's been grabbed from the intro to Hawaii-5-O.

docevi1

10,430 posts

270 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

the other thing to ask is - are there any buildings that high on the sea front where the wave hit worst (Thailand / Sri Lanka). Not anymore at any rate

C C

8,012 posts

261 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

It’s a Kellogs corny fake?!!

AC79xxx

62,260 posts

271 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

If you assume that the brown and cream building in the fore ground is 20 stories (approx 550 - 575 ft high) the wave seems as high as if not higher than that.

There has been no mention of waves being that high, therefore it's a fake.

alexkp

16,484 posts

266 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

This is so obviously a fake that I am amazed there is any discussion at all.

Looks like an amalgam of the cover of Day After Tomorrow to me...

Raify

6,554 posts

270 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

anonymous said:

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Bingo!

shadowninja

79,238 posts

304 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

If that was real that would have been on the front cover of every newspaper across the globe.

JonRB

79,220 posts

294 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

It's already been debunked by Snopes.

See this page

However, Snopes lists this one as being genuine.

>> Edited by JonRB on Thursday 13th January 14:05

Coco H

4,237 posts

259 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

not to mention - a lot of the buildings look they should be in London

Graham.J

5,420 posts

281 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Also, when a tsunami is approaching the shore, the water draws back from the shore, there's water going over the road in the shot, you wouldn't get waves in front of a tsunami when it's that close to the shore because all the water would have been drawn back into the large wave.

>> Edited by Graham.J on Thursday 13th January 14:19

FourWheelDrift

91,757 posts

306 months

Thursday 13th January 2005

Coco H said:
not to mention - a lot of the buildings look they should be in London

Yes those hovels on the left I think are actually in Hornsey.

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