Golden Eagle Snatches Kid [ HOAX ]

"Oh S#!T" - indeed![tag:video random strange youtube family]

 

Unbelievable!
[smiley:eek]

 

Thanks to Devensupertramp[*1] for the heads-up on this video!

Yep... It's a HOAX. Read More..

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/19/167610327/eagle-snatches-kid-video-the-debunking-begins

The skeptics were right.[*2]

Three students studying animation and digital design at Montreal's Centre NAD, the school says, made a video that's gone viral today because it looks (sort of) like an eagle snatched a baby off the ground and started to fly away with the little kid.

But Centre NAD "reassures Montrealers" that there's "no danger of being snatched by a royal eagle." The video was a digitized class project, not a real snatching.

It IDs the clever students as Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin.

But wait, could this admission just be a trick? Anybody up for some digital analysis of the school's press release[*3] ?

Probably not: According to the school, its students have fooled some folks before, with a "Penguin escaped zoo in Montreal!!![*4] " video.

Our original post — " 'Eagle Snatches Kid' Video: The Debunking Begins":

Here's a distraction from the day's heavier news:

It may be a fake — and many on the Web are saying just that. But it's for real that the "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid" video[*5] of something that supposedly happened in Montreal is going viral this morning.

The team at StoryfulPro[*6] has collected some of the debunking that's going on. There's work being done on Reddit[*7] , for instance on the sudden appearance of the bird's shadow[*8] . On Twitter, "@thornae[*9] " has been posting about things such as "the disappearing wing[*10] ."

The Montreal Gazette, meanwhile, says that[*11] "on CBC Radio Thursday morning, bird expert David Bird called the incident a hoax, pointing out that it's an image of an osprey, not an eagle, as the video states."

Two-Way readers who sideline in digital forensics are welcome to offer their analyses in the comments thread.

Update at 11 a.m. ET. More Analysis:

Check this video from AnimalWire[*12] .

And, yes, we (like many other news outlets) have a message in to the video's creator. If we get in touch we'll update with what we find out.