[Shotimes] OT Chernobyl hoax

[Steve Weinrich]

Call the phone numbers listed and see.

Then you'll know.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul L Fisher" <sho@paul-fisher.com>
To: <Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:03 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT Chernobyl hoax


> How do we know which story is true, the original or the one 'refuting' it?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:44 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] OT Chernobyl hoax
>
> Does anybody remember the web site about the woman who rode her
> motorcycle through Chernobyl?  It was really kinda creepy, huh?  It
> was also a hoax.  I was just sent the following.  What some people
> won't do for a little fame and glory...
>
>
> Mike Wojton
> Toledo, Ohio
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>
> > from http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951
> >
> > ############################################################
> >
> > Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication TOP <#top>
> >
> > e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes:
> >
> > I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph
> Henry Press. Several sources
> > have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last
> e-POSHTA mailing. Though
> > it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman
> riding her motorcycle
> > through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked
> about it when I visited there
> > two days ago.
> >
> > I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not
> travel around the zone by
> > herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is
> wandering around alone, without
> > an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her
> husband and a friend.
> > They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
> >
> > She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip
> through a Kyiv travel
> > agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her
> father). They were given the same
> > standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web
> site appeared, Zone
> > Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a
> motorcycle trip in the zone. When
> > it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even
> less pleased about this
> > fantasy Web site.
> >
> > Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web
> site and the story
> > considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative
> lied more blatantly about
> > Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to
> merely suggest that she
> > does so, which is still misleading.
> >
> > I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl
> fantasy. Indeed, correcting all
> > the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much
> space as the Web site
> > itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I
> thought the readers of e-
> > Poshta should know.
> >
> > 1. Mary Mycio, J.D.
> > 2. Legal Program Director
> > 3. IREX U-Media
> > 4. Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16
> > 5. Kyiv 01023, Ukraine
> > 6. Tel: (380-44) 220-6374, 228-6147 Fax: 227-7543
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