Comments on: Underage Pregnancy Conspiracies, Savage Lost Tribes and Don Imus is a Racist

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:54:48 +0000

I accept the explanation that the tribe was already known and that the primitive-tribe hunter guy staged the stunt to draw attention to the immediate need to protect them. There’s less WTF in that scenario than a) whole thing is a hoax and b)we just randomly found a completely unknown tribe.

I do question the ethics of buzzing them, though. Desperate times, I guess.

By: Lisa Kansas

Lisa Kansas — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:52:57 +0000

Hey, if everyone else is convinced this picture is not a total setup, who am I to argue? The media’s lucky to have you folks.

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:13:34 +0000

From the picture, most of the people did run like hell, except for the two guys whose job it is to throw spears at unidentified things that are presumed unwelcome. And the random spectator. Who knows what her story is?

We have people designated to not run like hell and instead be ready to shoot at weird shit when previously unknown potential threats start buzzing our homes, too. We call them the National Guard. I’d end this less snarky but got to run. Back later!

By: Lisa KS

Lisa KS — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:54 +0000

“Annoying?” no. “Terrifying,” because if you REALLY HADN’T ever seen or heard anything like one before and REALLY had no idea what it was, I’d tell you what you’d do. You’d run like hell.

By: Quin

Quin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:55:09 +0000

If I lived in a pre-technological village and one of those big annoying noisy things started flying as low as it looks like it is in that photo, I could TOTALLY see myself throwing spears at it.

By: Lisa KS

Lisa KS — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:45:58 +0000

I dunno. I strongly suspect that this so-called lost tribe, which has been unlost for over a century as it turns out, which is now suddenly specified to have no PEACEFUL (as opposed to NO) contact with outsiders–I think it’s a strong possibility that that photograph was entirely staged. I mean, c’mon. Throwing spears at it? As loud and awful as a helicopter is? REALLY? …c’mon…but I could be wrong. Maybe they’re also so inbred they’ve lost all survival instinct as well as, er, “civilized” contact.

By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:29:49 +0000

Well, there ARE painted, spear-throwing primitives in Brazil, actually, according to the article you linked. The new information is simply that we already knew about them. And that the person taking the pictures was a professional primitive-watcher who knew exactly where to point his ‘great white Helicopter.”

Agreed that the media is having an amazingly inept go of it this week. But we’re buying into the hackery if we let the media convince us that publicity-campaign equals ‘hoax.’