Real or Hoax?

[Dee Bee]

This is a link to a site that will tell you if several of the pictures you have been seeing via e-mail or on the Internet over the years were real or fake.

http://tinyurl.com/589ty

[CajunMama]

I'm good! I got a 10/10!!!!!!!!

[Vandora]

I got a 10/10 too.

[angelwing]

10/10 here too!!!

[Tampa_God]

9/10, I must be dumb. I got the fat cat wrong. I said real.

It could have been an over-large tumor.

[O Town]

9/10 Got the chicken nugget wrong.

[angelwing]

Nah, not dumb, I had to think twice on that one.

[Tampa_God]

9/10 Got the chicken nugget wrong.

I knew that one was true, because, oh yeah I guessed on that one.

[HurriCat]

Hmm... my workplace filters block the site as "Malicious Code / Spyware". So much for taking a test!

[Tstormwatcher]

I suck, only 5 out of 10.

[alicia-w]

i missed the one about the chicken head. that's just wrong.

[HurriCat]

Finally took it - the Camel-Spider one is a stinker. The photo IS of a camel spider, just not as big as advertised. The chicken head got me. So did the fish in a jar, as I saw a photo with a fish - Koi I think - having a human facelike design on it's head and thought this was a similar marking. "ee-diot".

[HurricaneGirl]

i got 8/10

[wxmann_91]

i got 8/10

[Audrey2Katrina]

missed the one about the chicken head. that's just wrong.

I tend to agree..

the Camel-Spider one is a stinker. The photo IS of a camel spider, just not as big as advertised.

This is also what I figured... definitely the spider, but perspective makes it appear larger than it actually is--I found this the most misleading of all the questions.

Anyway... guess I don't have to say I got 8/10...

A2K

[TerabyTe]

I got a 7. :/

[Extremeweatherguy]

Here is a picture of a 'real' camel spider:

http://www.nmpest.com/images/Jsalpuged.JPG

I don't see how the ones in the picture were fake.

BTW, Here are a few websites discussing Camel spiders and that picture:

http://www.camelspiders.net/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... pider.html

http://www.camel-spiders.net/

http://video.clipstream.com/content/c/camel_spiders/
^^includes a video^^

[Audrey2Katrina]

I agree on the Camel spider pic... the picture appears to show TWO of them which also distorts proportionality..

As to the "McNoggin"... I found this bit of info on Snopes.com which debunks a lot of internet hucksters, and urban legends.

" From the "You Deserve a Beak Today" category, on 28 November 2000, a breaded deep-fried chicken head was found in a box of chicken wings purchased at a McDonald's in Newport News, Virginia. Katherine Ortega says she discovered the McNoggin while divvying up the wings at home for her family of four. (Fried chicken wings were being test-marketed in that area.)

On 30 November 2000, the Ortegas announced they had hired a lawyer and were contemplating a lawsuit against McDonald's. Legal experts don't think the family would win an award much higher than a couple of thousand dollars because no one ate the piece or was physically harmed by it. (Even in our litigious society, harm has to be demonstrated, and it's not enough just to claim "I was grossed out by this" to gain the big bucks. A small award to compensate for the shock of the discovery might not be out of order, though.)

Katherine Ortega has posed for a number of photos of her holding the chicken head, which may work against her if she tries to seek compensatory damages for psychological harm arising out of the incident. A jury will have a difficult time believing she is now nauseated by chicken or has difficulty sleeping after being presented with photographic evidence of her repeatedly and voluntarily handling the offensive item.

Those who have taken the photographs note the fried batter on the item looks to be the same as on the chicken wings. The McNoggin, however, has yet to be examined by experts. John E. Smith, owner of the McDonald's in question and two others, states "My ability to conduct a thorough investigation has been delayed because I have not been given an opportunity to examine the object in question. Although I have made several requests to see this object, the customer refuses to give me that opportunity."

An enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who is looking into the case is at a loss to explain how the head ended up in Ortega's order of wings. The first thing that happens in the processing of live chickens into poultry parts is their beheading, with the heads immediately being discarded. The carcasses then go on to the next stage (which is being dropped into the boiling water to de-feather them). Though the process is mostly mechanized, a plant operator helps with evisceration (the removal of the bird's internal organs) and an on-site USDA inspector is supposed to check each and every chicken. How both could have missed a chicken head going through is a mystery.

At this point, not enough is known to determine if anyone is trying to hoax anyone else, if a poultry plant worker or McDonald's employee thought he'd have himself an innocent bit of fun, or if something went severely wrong with the food processing procedures at the plant and thus a McNoggining could happen again. Further information will be provided as soon as it is available."

Arrive at your own conclusions. As for me, I'm doing a "reclassification" and submit that I got 9/10

A2K

[HurricaneHunter914]

7/10, the Satan picture was easy. Saw it on the news the days after the attack.

[feederband]

I got the spider wrong...But that is a pic of 2 of them..I believe it to be real...Although my brother in law that went to Iraq said they did look real but they were twice the size he had seen them...