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Some viral videos are too good to be true.
Douglas Wong has been causing mass controversy on the web for a video he uploaded to YouTube last week:
As you can see, the video shows a hawk with a snake in its mouth. After circling around Wong’s family, who were having a picnic, the bird drops the snake on them.
Panic, understandably, ensues.
News outlets all over the world covered the video from Melbourne, Australia and it had racked up hundreds of thousands of likes on YouTube.
Despite the coverage, people began to suspect the video’s authenticity...
Wong had batted away accusations that it was fake and insisted it was real, telling Hunffington Post:
Yes it is real footage.
Apparently, even his uncle had been bitten by the snake:
He was a bit shaken at the time...we left because I was told that snakes are dangerous here. We laugh about it now, though.
Richard Vaughan Hughes, of The Woolshed Company – an independent video production studio known to create viral videos - confirmed to indy100 that the video was, in fact, created by them and was all a stunt for an Aussie Rules football team.
It's a fake, people.
The lesson here of course, is quite simple:
Animals doing weird things always go viral.
Oh, and don't believe everything you see.
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