Now back to watching the cross country rifle shooting event

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Man Responsible For Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead In Sochi
The man responsible for operating the Olympic Rings during last night’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia was found dead today. According to local reports the body of Boris Avdeyev was found his hotel room early this morning with multiple stab wounds.

Avdeyev was a technical specialist responsible for the Olympic Ring spectacle, which embarrassingly malfunctioned last night. Five animatronic snowflakes were supposed to transform into Olympic Rings. The first four functioned properly but the fifth snowflake failed to change shape.

Although his body was badly mangled and the wounds were consistent with a struggle, so far officials say they don't suspect foul play.

Spoiler: is hoax, comrades.

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

It has a lot of truthiness to it.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

and then miniature giraffe got fed to miniature lions?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

lol

[cypukambl.livejournal.com]

Yesterday this news was in ontd_political without mentioning it was a joke. So, maybe it`s not a joke?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

no, it's a joke.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Just like ONTD...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"daily currant" is a fake news site. They're like The Onion, but not clever or funny - but check their "about" page, they will tell you outright that their stories aren't true.

Also: http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/sochiring.asp

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

The way the article reads seems so hoax-like. "Maybe he tripped and fell on a set of knives." Stuff like that leads me to think that it is a hoax.

I did, however, hear that they edited the mistake out of the Russian television broadcast.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Someone posted this on their FB, I responded with (just so everyone knows, this is a satire site) as the first reply. Queue about five people thinking it was real... There's just no helping some people.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Of course it isn't real. Everyone knows the real guy is now suffering a massive chloracne outbreak due to PCB poisoning.