"It will go down in history as a great wheeze!"

[Ornery]

Mr Lucky was not so plucky
- Sun Online Tue, Apr 15, 2003

• Comical commando Eric Walderman and his comrades fooled Gulf War II newsmen by pretending he had escaped death by inches when he was shot at while fighting Iraqis.
  
  In fact his Kevlar helmet was just lying on top of his pack when it was peppered by fellow Marines trying to hit an unexploded anti-tank weapon.

Doh! 😱

 

[Bartman39]

Uh the "Sun" is more like a dim light on things... 😛 Not to put much faith in what they say...

 

[UltraQuiet]

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: DaveSohmer
SKY NEWS

They are drawing their information from the Sun article.

 

[UltraQuiet]

 

[Red Dawn]

You gotta love British Humour🙂

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: DaveSohmer

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: DaveSohmer
SKY NEWS

They are drawing their information from the Sun article.

So what's your point? You think they just blindly repeat everything the Sun prints or do you think they checked and said, "it looks legit, run it."

No my point is very simply, they are not an independent source when their ONLY source is the same article...lol

It may be true, but I checked out the Sun's site and there's some funny stuff on there... Not as bad as the Sun here in America, which chronicles weekly all the UFO abductions and 3 headed babies....

 

[Ornery]

Just out of curiosity, how many News Items have turned out to be false on this Forum? Links?

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
You gotta love British Humor🙂

Humour. 😛

Eric, 28, then popped it on his head and posed for photographers travelling with 40 Commando before they took Umm Qasr in southern Iraq.

He gave no interview but he and his pals did nothing to stop journalists jumping to conclusions.

The picture was beamed round the world with the amazing story of his ?miracle? escape.

A "wheeze". Indubitably.

 

[exp]

Good one. 🙂