Purportedly, The Daily WTF takes real stories and shuffles all the details around, leaving a true core of technical WTF in an otherwise fabricated story.
Pretty much all of their stories cause the feeling of “this seems false, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t”, and this one is no exception.
I sometimes question these stories, and this is one of those times. It’s not that I couldn’t possibly believe it, but enough details are removed, and it’s told in such an exaggerated style (I’m quite sure the exact quotes aren’t)…
Please, please tell me it’s made up…
Purportedly, The Daily WTF takes real stories and shuffles all the details around, leaving a true core of technical WTF in an otherwise fabricated story.
Pretty much all of their stories cause the feeling of “this seems false, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t”, and this one is no exception.
Out of curiosity, I submitted a story a few years ago. You’re spot on: they rearranged the details of the story to fit some punchier narrative.
They lack verisimilitude.
I sometimes question these stories, and this is one of those times. It’s not that I couldn’t possibly believe it, but enough details are removed, and it’s told in such an exaggerated style (I’m quite sure the exact quotes aren’t)…
TDWTF stories are all adaptations of retellings; that on it’s own is going to introduce a variety of confusions.
This specific story sounds completely plausible to me; I’ve seen far worse.
Yeah, this is incredible.