# real or fake pic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 24, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215 "2005-09-24T16:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Teter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Teter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teter)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/1 "2005-09-24T16:27:26Z")
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 [![](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/schlaggenheimer/NewImage.jpg) ](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/schlaggenheimer/NewImage.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/2 "2005-09-24T16:30:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/3 "2005-09-24T17:02:47Z")
The power had go out, by that time. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/4 "2005-09-24T17:07:41Z")
fake > **[Speed Trap](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/speed-trap/)** > > Speed camera photo shows car blown at 133 MPH by Hurricane Katrina? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/5 "2005-09-24T17:08:27Z")
Also: Palm trees in New Orleans? They’re expensive. Color me dubious. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/6 "2005-09-24T17:10:16Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > 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. “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. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/7 "2005-09-24T17:43:51Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Also: Palm trees in New Orleans? They’re expensive. Color me dubious. [Palm trees in New Orleans.](http://images.google.com/images?q=palm+trees+%22new+orleans%22&svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-07,GGLD:en&start=20&sa=N) ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/8 "2005-09-24T18:02:06Z")
A quick search on google images turned up this: [http://www.boostcruising.com/crashphotos/entry/4/232.html](http://www.boostcruising.com/crashphotos/entry/4/232.html) ---
**Author:** ![charizard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charizard/32/4166_2.png) [@charizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charizard)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/9 "2005-09-24T18:26:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/10 "2005-09-24T20:48:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/11 "2005-09-24T21:46:05Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > “Embarassingly” is a strong word – it’s not terrible for what it is, which is a rather funny joke. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-or-fake-pic/323215/12 "2005-09-25T00:24:33Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > A quick search on google images turned up this: > > [Forums, Advice, News and Galleries - BoostCruising](http://www.boostcruising.com/crashphotos/entry/4/232.html) Um, like…\*\*buckgully \*\* sealed the deal. Fake-a-mundo.