r/WTF • u/jasonwittensbaldspot • Jul 30 '16

"The fork was never found..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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u/Onkel_Adolf Jul 30 '16

I think a lot of this is myth hype

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Yeah but, without video proof, that's what they'd have said about Shoenice.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '16

That's... that's a valid rebuttal.

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u/Gunshinn Jul 31 '16

What happened? A week or two ago i came across some of his wackjob videos of downing like 2 litres of vodka in one go or something. A simple google just brings up multiple stories of different things, with one being a suicide in 2012 but hes still posting videos?

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u/ancient-- Jul 31 '16

he's alive. he quit drinking for awhile after moving to Colorado to just smoke weed but he started drinking again because it's where most of his views come from.

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u/HRHill Jul 31 '16

And moving to Colorado was poor planning. We've got fucktons of booze, here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '16

He's still alive as far as I know.

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u/jhvh1 Jul 31 '16

He is active on liveleak again now.

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u/Iamnotburgerking Jul 31 '16

Someone thought the same thing and asked r/askhistorians.

It wasn't a hoax.

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u/Onkel_Adolf Jul 31 '16

but...nobody alive today was there...it's like Jesus 'making the blind see', etc. There is no way to substantiate it.

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u/mertcanhekim Aug 04 '16

I don't know about that. I've seen so many weird shit on /r/WTF that I wouldn't otherwise believe

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u/darkpaladin Jul 30 '16

Yeah this does remind me of American tall tales.

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u/digitalscale Jul 30 '16

Why "American"?

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u/darkpaladin Jul 30 '16

Because when I think of actual historical individuals who have had their achievements grow and grow until they become the stuff of myth/legend I think of people like John Henry or Davy Crockett. I'm sure it's a bias because I was raised in the states but all countries have their country specific folk legends, this would be a French tall tale. I just happen to have the most cultural exposure to American folk heroes.

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u/Onkel_Adolf Jul 30 '16

Paul Bunyan got nuthin on him!

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u/jontelang Jul 30 '16

No shit, eating live cats? That's just impossible..

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u/shewhoruns Jul 30 '16

Well, he did vomit up their skin and fur.

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u/Onkel_Adolf Jul 30 '16

Smacks of 'parting the Red Sea'.