He was trying to claim a share of the payout $$$$.
that's what's interesting about this one, as far as anyone can tell she didn't get any money out of it except for charity. seemingly was more for attention / sympathy / give aimless life a purpose
since we're collecting all these hoaxers now, there was also this presidential photographer who claimed to have taken the famous JFK Jr. shot and a lot of other stuff .... when his obit ran a couple of weeks ago, a bunch of retired press-pool photographers saw their work being credited to someone else
Known For Famous Photos, Not All of Them His http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/nyregion/15photographer.html
― dmr, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Does no one remember the former ILX regular who, after his girlfriend turned up alive in NYC a few days post 9/11, ended up entirely making up the story of the deaths of his two friends in the WTC, getting time off work to "grieve" for them, even going so far as to throw "benefit gigs" in London in their honour?
That's all I could think of this morning when I read the story.
Yeah, this stuff is unfortunately a lot more common than is comfortable.
-- Klaus M. Flanger, Friday, September 28, 2007 3:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
paul strange, kate st clares ex
― and what, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
wow that is mental. and yeah it must be really common!
― gff, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
u guys i founded al qaeda and am therefor indirectly responsible for 9/11. it's not what i intended. sorry. also i am hulk hogan.
― jhøshea, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry I caused all that cancer
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i20.tinypic.com/2cp4zk0.jpg
― jhøshea, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Juelz Santana should be in there somewhere.
― mulla atari, Saturday, 29 September 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJX.sej6xrYE&refer=home
"Morgan Stanley, the second-largest securities firm, will pay $12.5 million to settle regulatory claims it wrongly withheld e-mails in arbitration cases by saying they were lost in the Sept. 11 attacks"
― StanM, Sunday, 30 September 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, there's that episode of Curb Your Enthusiam where a rabbi's brother in law was killed in NYC on 9/11. He was going around yelling "I know someone who was killed on 9/11!" until it was discovered that the brother in law was killed by a bike messenger and not in the WTC.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 September 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
she should be given the electric chair
― max r, Sunday, 30 September 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Gosh, that reminds me of when my mom said that "She should commit suicide over this" re: Britney's performance on VMAs.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 1 October 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-life-and-death-of-jesse-james/17427/?page=1
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I am developing a distant fascination with this
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I would have chalked that whole story up to being... well, a story (as the guy is a writer ffs!) but then theres that youtube video....
― Trayce, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
where was the youtube video Trayce?
― J0hn D., Friday, 12 October 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XmPDGZPnYl0
(as per post on the noizeboard)
― Trayce, Friday, 12 October 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess it doesnt do much to add to the story but it certainly fits with what the guy described.
― Trayce, Friday, 12 October 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
and pictured, on the last page of the article
― jeff, Friday, 12 October 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Harlan Ellison fans are a CREEEEEEEEEEPY bunch.
― Nubbelverbrennung, Friday, 12 October 2007 08:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2001/06/44245
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 October 2007 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
in fight club of course this gets played for laughs
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 October 2007 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link