[Shotimes] OT Chernobyl hoax

[Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com]

Maybe I used the wrong word when I said 'hoax'.  Seems I should
have said the she 'exaggerated the truth a little'.  I don't doubt that
she was there and took the pictures, but if you read the story now,
there are some things missing from the pages that were there before.

I do think it's a little odd that she would put her helmet in a bag and
carry it around with her everywhere.  Why not leave it with the bike.
If the place is indeed so desolate, who's going to steal it?  And I find
it hard to believe that her father got her special permission to go into
a heavily radiated area.  If it were me, I would find a way to keep her
away from there.  But that's just me.  Who knows what other fathers
will do for their little girls.

The lesson here I think is don't believe every part of everything
you read on the internet.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

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"Paul L Fisher" <sho@paul-fisher.com> wrote on 05/25/2004 05:03:16 PM:

> How do we know which story is true, the original or the one 'refuting' 
it?
> 
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> 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
> 
> -'95 White MTX
>    '96 Brake Upgrade
> 
> "Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan
> 
> 
> > 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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