The Flying Dutchman story (that I wrote about yesterday) was an elaborate hoax.
He fooled me. Who would think that someone would write a blog for so long that was actually totally fictional?
No, wait. Don't answer that.
Hint: If you don't understand Dutch, click the CC button in the bar at the bottom of the video for Closed Captions in English.
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Guess I just give people the benefit of the doubt.
What a douche. Floris that is.
I just wonder of it took more imagination and ingenuity to perpetuate this hoax than it would have done to actually fly like a bird?
I'd like to give the intelligent ones more credit than the dishonest ones.
I often dream that I'm soaring like a bird, but when I get too close to the lamp on my nightstand, my wings melt.
Fooled me too. Floris deserves credit for his ingenuity.
Wavedancer
I was also fooled - and even enchanted with the whole thing. But I did look up Turnigy motors and all I could find were references to radio-controlled models, which should have been a big clue. But I ignored the obvious and chose to believe a lovely fantasy.
He says in the interview that he has been working for 8 months on an experiment about online media called how can you tell a good story through a blog. (Apologies for the translation but that's what the English subtitles say.)
I must admit that it was mainly the blog that convinced me that this was real. I can understand someone faking a one-off video, but didn't think anyone would spend 8 months writing a blog about the project just to support a hoax.
Which makes me wonder, are any of the other blogs I read fake? Would it possible to write a plausible fake blog about sailing round the world, say, (shades of Donald Crowhurst) or even one of those blogs about a young couple following their dream and sailing off to the Caribbean?
Should have trusted my instincts on this.
Flying by flapping your arms is believable, but when he said he'd never felt anything better in his life, I should have known it was a hoax.
I would have been fooled too if I wasn't sprawled out on the bar room floor. I missed the whole thing. Damn that bourbon!
note: Good to see that they watch Myth Busters in the Netherlands.
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