Home Depot Genius

[lee houston]

Was this one of you guys?

[Toller]

[greg6755]

I've had some of my best times just sitting in the parking lot and watching people trying to load lumber into cars.

[Eigenvector]

That thing's so old it's got gray hairs. All you have to do is look at the front and rear tires and how out of proportion they look to tell that photo is fake.

[Steve Barker]

that picture's been floating around the internet for at least 5 years. I'm sure there was no home depot involved. It's a staged photo.

[Cliff Hartle]

Here is a link to more on what are real photos.

There are multiple pictures from a few different angles with references to news clippings

The car could have been planted somehow but the lumber really was on the car in that parking lot.

[trainfan1]

Almost as entertaining as a State boat launch.

Rob

[Evo]

is an Illegal Mexican Californian Handy Man Inc.

Rich

[djay]

There is a good website called snopes.com that debunks urban legends..

Turns out this one is true.

djay

[Doug Miller]

Nope, it's true.

[hallerb]

" wrote:>that picture's been floating around = the internet for at least 5 years. =A0I'm

OLD NEWS, last time I saw that picture the lumber was loaded at builders square a now out of business company before home depot was around here

[Steve Barker]

Snopes is not ALWAYS accurate either.

[Charlie Morgan]

Really? can you cite some specific examples?

They seem to do a pretty good job of fact checking from multiple sources. They are cautious about declaring anything "true" or "false" that can't be confirmed from multiple sources. This particular item was classified as a "maybe" for quite a while before they were able to get better confirmation. In this specific case, they even provide newspaper accounts and other photos.

CWM

[Grandpa]

Sure, here:

Yep, they sure do. ;-)

[Charlie Morgan]

Now go to the page that leads to that one!

CWM

[Steve Barker]

One in particular that came up recently is their claim that domestic abuse cases don't rise in numbers on super bowl Sunday. My son is in law enforcement, and has always told us superbowl Sunday is their biggest domestic abuse day of the year. So, if you can't believe that one, which ones can you believe? That lumber on the car deal is purely staged. No one would do that for anyother reason, and no one would allow someone to do that for any other reason.

[Steve Barker]

That's a good one. And as a photography buff, i can assure you, a zebra is a zebra in B&W also. What a bunch of crap!

[Steve Barker]

So basically what snopes is saying is "Hey we might be right, maybe not". After all it IS the internet. I don't believe a word of what I see on it.

[Charlie Morgan]

And of course you can substantiate this with more than one source? Statistics?

Maybe (doubtful) in your son's locale it's true, but that wouldn't change much of anything. Then again, maybe your son likes to make things up, or mindlessly repeat things someone else told him without checking them out. I'd appreciate a verifiable cite, even for your son's locale. I'm pretty sure that's impossible!

CWM

[Charlie Morgan]

So, basically what YOU are saying is you are not very bright. That isn't what they said at all. Apparently someone stopped payment on your reality check.

Please be my guest, and continue to stumble arond in the dark, suffering from self inflicted injuries.

CWM