Ghost Town: A Motorcycle Ride Through Chernobyl's Dead Zone...

[jus_the_facts]

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

*snips*
the town kindergarden, they don't need my comments, they speak for themselves and tell the Ghost Town's story in a way that no words can. There are hundreds of little gas masks, a teachers diary and a last note saying that their walk on Saturday has been canceled due to some unforeseen contingency.




....she also rides through what's called Land of the Wolves...these pictures and her narative brought me to tears...the HELL all those poor people suffered... :cry:


http://www.elenafilatova.com

[ps1074]

1. I posted this story a couple of years ago

Really heartbraking :cry:

[benburch]

2. And outed as a fake.

She never made that ride.

[Wickerman]

4. Snopes didn't have anything

tell me about the fake - I'm curious.

[benburch]

6. When she published this the Ukraine govt investigated...

because travel by motorcycle in that are is SPECIFICALLY forbidden. They determined that she did not make that trip. The photos, some of them, are real, and come from an organized tour of the area, Clearly any of the ones with the motorcycle are pure fraud, and as she has been outed as a liar, how many of the others can be trusted?

[Wickerman]

7. cool

thanks, Ben. Always a mystery what motivates folks.

[jus_the_facts]

8. Sure seems like the gov't there would have an agenda.....

....especially when it comes to this tragedy...regardless of who took the pictures....it's a real problem and threat to the environment which their gov't as with all that make dire mistakes with people's lives tend to do these days...just sayin'. :hide:

[benburch]

9. Oh they have no agenda...

Remember Chernobyl was a SOVIET disaster.

They just forbid people alone on motorcycle in the Zone. As they SHOULD.

[NNadir]

3. Like Clockwork.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=43122&mesg_id=43149

[phantom power]

5. Anybody remember that scene from Wayne's World...

where he's in the guitar shop, and he starts to play the first couple notes of Stairway To Heaven, and the shop-keeper shoots him that look and points to the sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven!"

Every guitar shop should actually have one of those signs.

Oh yeah, and we should have a sign like that in this forum, that says "No posts about 'Motorcycle Ride Through Chernobyl's Dead Zone'"

:-)

[NNadir]

10. I predict regular appearances of Elena on this website.

Of course I have a special radar for these things, and I hear from her at least once a month.