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Offline Jimmy Deguara

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Basement tornadoes
« on: 02 March 2008, 04:52:20 PM »
I must say I had to read this a couple of times to sink it in. It seemed wierd at first/ I had never heard of it prior!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/74797

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Offline Richary

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Re: Basement tornadoes
« Reply #1 on: 02 March 2008, 06:31:19 PM »
Have a look at this one.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks

I don't think they can be trusted as a reliable news source :-)

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Re: Basement tornadoes
« Reply #2 on: 03 March 2008, 02:08:13 AM »
Richary,

The way it was written definitely made it seem suss. I wanted to see what others thought of it - hence the lack of comments.

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Offline Richary

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Re: Basement tornadoes
« Reply #3 on: 03 March 2008, 02:03:01 PM »
As long as they have fun! And everybody who reads the site knows it is a parody of news - and nobody takes it as gospel and *doesn't* not hide in their basement during a tornado. Not a problem here of course, but I hope nobody in the US is using it for reality!

The sites and the slant they put on things can be fun, but they should have a disclaimer at the top saying it isn't real and don't believe it.

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Re: Basement tornadoes
« Reply #4 on: 03 March 2008, 02:43:33 PM »
I like how they made the ridiculous Doppler radar images and the man "looking for his old Halloween costumes"

Obviously fake

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Re: Basement tornadoes
« Reply #5 on: 03 March 2008, 03:35:39 PM »
I think it is dangerous to make jokes about such items using 'deaths' as convincing evidence.

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