all y’all are pretty good at this stuff. i’m from new orleans so i get alot of those junk email pics. just got this one and it does look like loyola but it could well be a fake.
has anyone else seen this? i’m betting it’s fake. so, i guess i’m asking you folk to play a bit of mythbusters
Embarrassingly fake pasted on illustration on a real backfdrop, blurred. Look at the open car door underneath the too-conspicously large black sign in the corner.
The power had go out, by that time.
fake
Also: Palm trees in New Orleans? They’re expensive. Color me dubious.
“Embarassingly” is a strong word – it’s not terrible for what it is, which is a rather funny joke. But ask youself this — do those trees in the background really look like they’re undergoing the kind of wind it would take to pick up and hurl a car, much less at a 135 mph? If the wind was strong enough to move a car, the trees and telephone poles would be bent over or snapped.
More than that, the wind is apparently blowing from left to right, but there’s a motion blur on the righthand side of the car. The debris on the lower left is pretty sharp, indicating that the picture (or screen capture) was taken at probably at least 1/200 second. Far too much blur on the car in comparison.
A quick search on google images turned up this:
Plus, just as common sense, New Orleans didn’t even get that much wind. The worst of the storm passed them by, and everyone thought they had dodged the bullet - until the levies broke. They were only done in by the water.
Traffic cameras typically aren’t at eye level either.
It’s obvious from the Snopes entry is faked but I don’t think a lot of the arguments against it are so watertight. For starters lots of JPG compression can mask more obious signs of fakery. As for the mismatch in motion blur consider that it’s going to be relative to the distance from the camera so that the car will have more than items farther away.
No, I’m going to go with “embarassingly fake.” It doesn’t even look like Photoshop was used - it looks like MSPaint (and the Windows 3.1 version at that) at best.
Lazy. Just lazy.
Um, like…**buckgully ** sealed the deal. Fake-a-mundo.