Toddler-snatching eagle video hoax was class project
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MONTREAL (AP) - The creators of a video purporting to show an eagle swooping down and snatching a toddler from a Montreal park that went viral after being posted on YouTube earlier this week now say it was a hoax.
The four people behind the video said Thursday that the video was intentionally created as a part of a class project to create a viral video hoax at a new-media training institute in Montreal.
The video has been viewed millions of times on YouTube and written about in various newspaper and websites around the globe.
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i want my baby back, baby backs, baby back.....riiiiiiibs
Just goes to show you , Don't believe everything you see. And is seeing really believing?
Props to the creators. Very clever.Â
This was posted as a "news story" on Yahoo yesterday.
If it ain't on Drudge, it ain't real news.
@Kushfan ...spaeking about believing what one sees........
Hey, he just had a story about the Mayan Doomsday. That's GOTTA be real!
It was a great video, fake or not. I am still cautious when I let my Chihuahua out into the yard when there are red-tailed hawks circling above . . .
It was a pretty well done project. But yes, anyone who believed it is more than a little gullible.
No one will ever outdo Balloon Boy.
@Lips Attic boy....he was never in the balloon
I still can't believe they named the kid Falcon.
It was pretty obvious it was fake.
I have to wonder how many people were suckered into believing it.
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I also wonder how many still believe it and will go on repeating it as truth.
 @RalphCramden Ralph, can we ask ourselves the same question regarding the recent election?
That didn't stop literally every idiot on Facebook from forwarding it around and blathering about some eagle they saw once. I didn't watch the video...the first thing I did was look up "eagle toddler hoax" and there it was.Your friends who send you this crap are the ones who think that if they fill out a form with the credit card, DOB, address, social security number and bank account numbers, they'll win a $500 Gift Certificate from Target or a free laptop.
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Just another reason I don't "Facebook", or "Twitter".
HA ! I saw it yesterday, sure looked real, man what they can do with CGI is incredible !