Taken In?

Follow up to: Another Point of Singularity: Sobering Comment on Motorcycle Safety

Perhaps. There are days when this blog generates an unprecedented amount of traffic. Yesterday was one of those. Normally I just chug along, content that somebody out there might read stuff on here from time to time. Yesterday, I noticed that I was getting an unbelieveable amount of simultaneous hits on that little "where are people reading this from?" dingus on the left hand side.. 10 Americans, 5 British, 1 Spaniard and a Canadian were all on at once. And it was all because of that ghoulish post about the motorcycle accident, In the Blink of an Eye. What was even more interesting was the comments it generated:

That can't be for real.

I was suprised by the lack of blood, I think it looked a little too clean.

Nah not buying that one.
Show me a news article on the accident and I might start believing it.

It doesn't look real, there's no impact damage to the tree, no signs of skidding or sliding and nowhere enough blood.
The bike's still smoking apparently so it happened minutes ago. The drag mark to the bits isn't wet enough and looks too even to represent a body fluid spill over time.
Where are the emergency services? did the happy passer-by with the camera go and collect the pieces with his friend?
There's not much of a reason for the crash to happen there either is there? dry road, good visibility, no adverse camber, no other vehicle…….
I'm not convinced.

That is so fake. Looks like something out of the Starship Troopers movie. The bugs are after motorcyclists! Do you want to know more? Staged for sure.

the world is full of people wanting to look at mangled bodies. Just do a search on google for "gross accidents" or something.

When at Uni these sort of pictures did the rounds all the time.

Looks bogus to me, too. No names attached, for one thing.

And someone "knows" the bike was going 280 kph (176 mph). Who? Another rider? Was he also going that fast, leaning into a curve on a rural road? Conditions look good – good visibility, dry road, clearly marked curve. No reason for the crash, unless the rider was a total moron. Which may well have been the case…

The still-smoking bike is propped against a tree on the *inside* of the curve. That's a neat trick – the skid mark goes off into the field on the *outside* of the curve. And I doubt anyone moved it there after the wreck, because there's no reason to, and no one I know is going to move a still-smoking and potentially explosive bike.

I love the pile of body parts and motorcycle leathers. How gruesome! But if he was going 176 mph, or even 60 mph, wouldn't the parts have been strewn all over the road and field? Maybe someone picked up the parts and placed them on the road, but, if so, he didn't make a very neat pile, and he also didn't pick up all the pieces. I see what looks like most of the torso and part of one leg. Where's the lower torso, the other leg, and the arms? Man, if you're gonna pick up the pieces, pick up *all* the pieces, for cryin' out loud!

Nah, there's too much about this that screams, "Fake!" Probably parts of a pig carcase dressed in a mangled set of leathers and a helmet.

As for why someone would fake such a thing, give me a break. The reasons range from "I'm bored" to "dude, we made the 'blogs!" all the way up to "let's teach young bikers a lesson in terms they'll understand".

Are the skid marks narrow enough for a bike?

I vote for this being a fake.

Never seen anyone ride with one boot and one running shoe. Those suits are expensive so it you loose a boot you buy new ones, not ride with one only.

You know, I should show this to my friend. He's a mortician, and as he was (still is?) the bottom of the pecking order, got all the "fun" cases. And he tells me about them…

Graphicly.

I vote fake too…

Thank you, CSI TMP.

As to whether or not it's fake, I have no idea. Like a lot of things that get bandied around the Internet it was passed to me with almost no attribution. It looked real enough to me, certainly sufficiently close to some of the grotesque films they show you of the aftereffect of motorcycle crashes at high speeds.

If this WAS a false or faked accident scene, I'm sorry for posting it, but it doesn't take away from the fact that the human body is remarkably fragile at high speeds. If somebody faked this, that leads to an entirely different chain of ponderings.. what kind of individual FAKES something like this? It obviously takes a huge amount of time and effort (and a destroyed motorcycle) to create a false accident scene... FOR WHAT REASON?

The world is full of wierdos.

Of course, it could be real, too. :-D