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     65460 |
Some of you have probably seen this, its been around for a while. But its still interesting to read and view the pictures: http://kiddofspeed.com/default.htm Chuck | ||
| Captpete |
I wondered what happened to those. It used to be hosted by anglefire. Thanks for posting. | ||
| Rocketman |
I thought the whole journey was exposed as an elaborate hoax? Rocket | ||
| Captpete |
If it was a hoax, it was damned sure elaborate. They built an entire ghost town to pull it off, and then let the grass grow for year before they took any pictures. Or, maybe they just brought in a million truckloads of mature sod? I bet the MoCo did it to freak people out about buying any of those contaminated Jap bikes. That's where all the race money went!  And speaking of mature sods...  | ||
| Rocketman |
I'm sure there was a thread about the Chernobyl ride on the BadWeB a couple of years ago? I thought that's where I read it was a hoax? Rocket | ||
| Road_thing |
Mature sods? Yeah, that'd include me! I seem to remember the same thing as Rocket, but can't figure why anybody would go to all that trouble. rt | ||
| Sleez |
just found this; A fraud exposed, and a true thing... This one left me blinking. Not so much because it was a fraud, as why anyone would bother to create such a fraud... Found this on the infiltrate.org forum - thought you might find it interesting. You'd wonder why somebody would go to the lengths to fake something like this. dee Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication TOP e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes: I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago. I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv. She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site. Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading. I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl fantasy. Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much space as the Web site itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know. Mary Mycio, J.D. Legal Program Director IREX U-Media Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16 Kyiv 01023, Ukraine Tel: (380-44) 220-6374, 228-6147 Fax: 227-7543 See also http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threa did=8951 which includes more information from people who actually did go to Chernobyl... | ||
| Captpete |
The bike trippin' was the hoax, but all the pictures were real. That hardly diminishes my experience of seeing them. But it sure blows the crap outta my fantasy! My apologies, Rocket. Yer not an old sod. Middle-aged? (Thanks for the post) | ||
| 65460 |
Bummer, sorry about the misinformation, but I still liked to read it |
