Little lie, big lie
Sep. 28th, 2007 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamIt's not only on the Internet people lie about tragedies to befall them.
Tania Head’s story, as shared over the years with reporters, students, friends and hundreds of visitors to ground zero, was a remarkable account of both life and death.
She had, she said, survived the terror attack on the World Trade Center despite having been badly burned when the plane crashed into the upper floors of the south tower. (...)
But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified.
Wow. Never ceases to amaze me what people will lie about, really. For attention, for sympathy - I know there have been people lying about surviving Auschwitz as well (one case I remember even involved writing a book), so perhaps this shouldn't surprise me. Almost everyone lies now and then - but I think most stick to little ones. When you go for a big one like this - wouldn't you expect to be caught sooner or later?
At least in this case it doesn't seem to have been about money.
So - tell me a truth about yourself?
Also, today many in my country are wearing red in solidarity with the people of Burma, so I'm using a vaguely red icon. What is going on there is definitely not good. Haven't been good for a long time, in fact. But perhaps this time, a change can come. Perhaps. (This explains the background for it, for those who feel a little in the dark.)
Meanwhile, err? Writing a fic just to tell others to review a friend's fic? What does fandom etiquette say on that?
Tania Head’s story, as shared over the years with reporters, students, friends and hundreds of visitors to ground zero, was a remarkable account of both life and death.
She had, she said, survived the terror attack on the World Trade Center despite having been badly burned when the plane crashed into the upper floors of the south tower. (...)
But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified.
Wow. Never ceases to amaze me what people will lie about, really. For attention, for sympathy - I know there have been people lying about surviving Auschwitz as well (one case I remember even involved writing a book), so perhaps this shouldn't surprise me. Almost everyone lies now and then - but I think most stick to little ones. When you go for a big one like this - wouldn't you expect to be caught sooner or later?
At least in this case it doesn't seem to have been about money.
So - tell me a truth about yourself?
Also, today many in my country are wearing red in solidarity with the people of Burma, so I'm using a vaguely red icon. What is going on there is definitely not good. Haven't been good for a long time, in fact. But perhaps this time, a change can come. Perhaps. (This explains the background for it, for those who feel a little in the dark.)
Meanwhile, err? Writing a fic just to tell others to review a friend's fic? What does fandom etiquette say on that?