Mar 29
It’s behind you
The location this picture was taken is the World Trade Center, New York City. The date in the bottom right hand corner reads, September 11, 2001.
The picture was supposedly found in a camera in the rubble of the Twin Towers, and the image quickly circulated around the internet through emails. The guy in the picture became known as “Tourist Guy” and debate ensued as to whether the picture was real or a fake.
It wasn’t long before it was written off as a sick hoax when obvious anomalies were pointed out:
* The man is wearing heavy clothing on what was a warm day.
* The wrong type of plane is approaching from behind. Both of the jets that crashed into the World Trade
Center were 767s, whereas a 757 is shown in this photo.
* The plane is approaching from the wrong direction.
A Hungarian man named Peter Guzli owned up to the hoax. He said the picture had been taken in 1997 and that he superimposed the plane onto the picture and changed the date as a bit of dark humour. He had only emailed it to a few friends and had no idea that it would circulate so widely.
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