Police in Chicago arrested a man yesterday after he allegedly robbed a bank by using a threatening note written on the back of his own pay cheque.
According to police, the 40-year-old man, Thomas Infante, walked into the bank and proceeded to give a staff member a note which said, ‘Be Quick…Give me your cash or I’ll shoot’.
He then successfully fled with $400.
However, he left half of his note behind as he made his escape.
Detectives then found the other half of the slip, which included his name and home address, outside the bank’s front doors.
Thomas Infante was subsequently arrested at his home in Cary, Illinois.
If Infante is convicted of bank robbery he will face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
Could a robber really be so dumb as to leave his details behind or have I created this story as a hoax to fool you?
What do you think???
If you’ve landed on this post then you have more than likely heard of, or watched, the 1984 movie known as ‘The Philadelphia Experiment’.
The question, though, is whether the incidents depicted in the film really did occur or not?
‘The movie does actually give a fairly good representation of the real Philadelphia Experiment based upon what has been recorded.
The Philadelphia experiment acquired it’s popular name because it occurred at the Philadelphia shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Conducted by the US navy on the 28th of October 1943, the incident has since been highly suppressed.
The film, and popular opinion, suggests that a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, became invisible to human observers for a brief period of time.
Officially, this classified experiment is known as ‘Project Rainbow’.
To this day, the official line is that nothing out of the ordinary occurred during the experiment.
PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT BELIEVED TO BE A HOAX
With the navy denying that an experiment to render a ship invisible took place, many believe that Project Rainbow is nothing more than a hoax.
The story is widely (but unjustly) regarded as a hoax.
Of course that may, or may not, mean a thing as there have, perhaps, been government cover-ups many times in the past.
THE HOAX HAS BEEN SURPRISINGLY WELL DOCUMENTED
The Philadelphia Experiment, if true, was undertaken by one Dr Franklin Reno.
Based upon Albert Einstein’s Unified Field Theory (UFT), it was to offer military benefits if successful.
Einstein’s UFT theory, which he later regretted sharing publicly, attempted to describe the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity.
From a military point of view, it was thought that this theory might be used to bend light around an object, effectively rendering it invisible.
Requiring huge amounts of energy and specialised equipment, the navy had the funds to sponsor the cost…
THE USS ELDRIDGE
The USS Eldridge was, it is claimed, outfitted with the required equipment at the naval yards in Philadelphia.
Tests then commenced in 1943.
Those who believe that the experiment took place claim that it was a partial success, with the ship being rendered partially invisible, replaced by a greenish fog.
However, it is believed that crewmen soon began complaining of severe nausea shortly afterwards, prompting the navy into modifying the experiment in order to achieve the simpler objective of invisibility to radar instead.
HUMAN FALIBILITY?
The story of the Philadelphia Experiment continues by suggesting that the experiment was performed again, despite the fact that the equipment was not properly calibrated.
On this occasion, the vessel not only became almost entirely invisible to the naked eye, but actually vanished from the area in a flash of blue light too.
A naval base at Norfolk, Virginia reported spotting the Eldridge offshore briefly, at which time the vessel then vanished from sight, reappearing at it’s previous location in Philadelphia.
This has led some to believe that the ship actually teleported.
WHERE IS CREWMAN JACOB L MURRAY?
Nausea wasn’t the only illness experienced by crew members.
Some also suffered from mental illness as a result of their experience with behaviour consistent with schizophrenia being described in other accounts.
Such illnesses have later proven to be useful when their accounts have been dismissed by officials.
One crewman, Jacob L. Murray, who was aboard the Eldridge, still remains unaccounted for.
Officials immediately cancelled the experiment and all of the surviving crew involved were discharged.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
What do you think really happened in October 1943?
Did the USS Eldridge really disappear, or teleport?
Are the government covering the experiment up and, if so, why?
Or is the Philadelphia Experiment just a hoax and a good movie?
It’s a fact of life that a great many hoaxes on the internet go viral and are, therefore, emailed around the globe many times over by both those who believe them and those who would help to propagate them.
If your inbox is being inundated with warnings that are worrying you, check them out to make sure they aren’t hoaxes.
1. Search online.
If you ask the person who sent you the email, or told you about the hoax, then they are sure to say it’s true. Check out other sources, such as this site you’re reading now.
2. Visit snopes.com.
Whilst I write about a few hoaxes here from time to time, Snopes has been around for.. ever!
Snopes.com is the most well-known hoax busting site on the internet and they deal with a huge range of hoaxes and urban legends.
If you’re not sure if something is true or not, Snopes usually has the answer.
3. Check out scambusters.org.
Like Snopes, scambusters has been around for many years.
Their site has information not only about scams but also hoaxes and urban legends too.
If you have received a fishy email asking for money then scambusters is a great resource to check out.
4. Stay away from forums.
Many people receive hoaxes from their friends.
Therefore, asking around forums is likely to be a waste of time as these other members who have received the same hoax will likely back what their friends say, come what may.
5. Trust your gut instincts.
If in doubt, don’t believe it.
If an email sounds a bit dubious then trust your instincts because it probably is.
An email claims that a kitten was born with two faces.
Is it true?
Subject: Two-faced kitten
Cool! Two headed kitten
This two-faced kitten was born in Perth, Western Australia…
YES!!
This adorable two-faced kitten really was born in Australia.
Unbelievably, such occurrences are not as rare as you may think.
What is amazing, however, is that the kitten appears to be completely healthy.
It may only be able to eat through one of it’s mouths but that is still quite an achievement - most kittens born with this disorder are unable to eat at all and die within just a day or two.
This little guy though is able to eat, drink, purr and meow, just like any other kitten.
In the past I’ve written about global warming and how I think it is all a hoax, or worse, scam, designed to raise taxes and further political careers.
Are my views right or is the fact that the earth’s temperature has dropped since 1991 just an inconvenient truth?
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After voting, I would love to hear why you feel the way you do so please let me know via the comments…
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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