And you thought you had a dangerous hobby. . .

[DarthToad]

I had a lot of work to do and I still saw all of that site.

Nuclear destruction one of the things I'm most afraid of. Everything just goes away in a flash.

[Vorlina]

And I used to think that the Simpsons was a comedy... Now I realise it's a hard hitting documentary expose.

Nuclear destruction doesn't sound too bad to me - a flash and we're gone sounds a lot better than radiation poisoning or Poison gas on the Tube.

[dajaymann]

Vorlina said:

... or Poison gas on the Tube.

Or Poison live on MTV.

[Vorlina]

Blimey, you'd better pray that doesn't happen, or you will be so busted.

And ok, I will be so dead, but still... Didn't your mother ever tell you not to mock the Capitally afflicted?

[Genetic Mishap]

I know this thread's beyond dead, but I'd thought I'd add this:

Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication
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.

Mary Mycio, J.D.

Legal Program Director
IREX U-Media
Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16
Kyiv 01023, Ukraine
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Found it here: www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951

Didn't bother to read all the way through to check, just thought you guys might enjoy having THE FUN SUCKED OUTTA DIS THANG.

[Head Mutant]

Oh no! My thang!

[DocD83]

Do you know what any of those factual errors are?

[Lissa]

That's depressing. Oh well.

[Genetic Mishap]

DocD83 said:

Do you know what any of those factual errors are?

Nope. I cause Justin distress, that's the only thing that matters now.

[Head Mutant]

*curled up in a ball*

...my... thang...