I am rolling my eyes at this false story about an Irananian boy's arm getting crushed.

[Catherine Vincent]

I received this email from my friend about this little boy from Iran supposedly getting his arm crushed because he stole a load of bread. I knew right off this was a fake, so I did a search on Snopes and it provided a link but I can't access it because of the gruesome pictures. Yet the email wasn't blocked that had the same fake pictures. :eyes: Here is the link to the snopes article: http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=arm+crushed&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

Can someone copy the text debunking this so that I can forward it to my friend? From what I've read on other sites, it was a staged act and the little boy is okay. And it didn't even happen in Iran.

[meegbear]

1. ...

An 8 year old child caught stealing bread in a market of Iran is punished in a public place, in the name of Islam!!!

His arm will be crushed and will lose its use permanently. A religion of peace and love, they say? How can anyone believe them when they commit such inhuman acts?

Dear Friends,

My first reaction to these pictures was "I don´t believe this, it must be a photographic trick".

Unfortunately, the truth seems evident, a little boy gets punished because he has stolen bread and they drive a heavy vehicle over his arm ....

What do you do when you receive a series of pictures like this? You ignore them???? Delete and think, thank God I am not living in Iran? This does not happen in my world ....

But the world is OURS - whether we live in Portugal, Sweden or in Iran. OUR children grow up in this world.

I feel helpless but I don´t want to think I received these pictures for no reason. Therefore, let´s use the power of the computer and internet to spread the information around the world. Maybe it can save some children from abuse in the future ...???

Ignorance can be defeated .... And the internet is a wonderful weapon.

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Origins: The above-displayed photographs have been circulating on the Internet since at least 2004, usually in e-mail forwards that set them in one of several Arab/Muslim areas (e.g., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestinian territories) and claim that the boy pictured is being punished under a harsh sharia law system that imposes a penalty grossly out of proportion to the nature of the crime (i.e., having his arm crushed under a vehicle because he stole a loaf of bread).

What the photographs actually depict (according to the operator of the site that originally published them) is performers hustling money from onlookers by staging an act, one in which a subject seemingly allows himself to be run over by a heavy vehicle and then emerges unscathed. (Note the man with the microphone in the first picture, who drums up business and describes the action for observers. Also note the blanket placed under the boy's arm - not a consideration persons intent on severely punishing a lawbreaker would be likely to provide.) This a common illusion, variations of which are performed by many magicians and accomplished through a variety of means, with no lasting harm done. That the subject is a small boy who grimaces his way through the stunt is all part of the act, intended to elicit sympathy and extra cash - despite his contorted facial expressions, the boy is not seriously hurt.

The versions of these photographs circulated via e-mail generally leave out the last pictures of the original series, which show the same boy after the conclusion of the stunt: (uninjured)

[Taverner]

4. Theocracies are fucked up plaes to live

Not that we should go around invading them, but I wouldn't want to live in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Alabama, Missisipi or any other theocracy.

[Taverner]

5. Theocracies are fucked up plaes to live

Not that we should go around invading them, but I wouldn't want to live in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Alabama, Missisipi or any other theocracy.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Thank you.

I will copy this and forward it to them debunking this claim. :hi:

[patrice]

13. How come?

You could cut and paste and I couldn't? I've never had that happen before. Do you know how that can happen?

[meegbear]

14. What I did was ...

I selected View | Page Source and got the HTML. Then I hacked through it for the text.

[patrice]

15. Of course!

I can read HTML, but I don't know about the hacking.

Will experiment.

:hi: Thanks.

[patrice]

2. Can't cut and paste.

Why is that?

Would you like me to type it for you? I can do that pretty quickly.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. That's okay. The first poster already helped me out.

Don't know why we can't cut and paste from snopes. :hi:

[InternalDialogue]

16. When I find a page that won't allow cut-and-paste --

I'm not a coder, but I think that's a Javascript action, to block cut-and-paste. I turn off Javascript in my browser preferences, reload the page, and voila!

(Worked with this particular Snopes page, at least.)

[sniffa]

3. it's phoney

the pictures show a street hustLe; a magic trick. the Last picture shows the boy up and around and fine. some of the pictures show a guy with a microphone trying to get peopLe to give money.

i'd paste the text, but for some reason, i can't highLight and copy on snopes. :shrug:

[babylonsister]

6. Can't you just send the link?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/crushboy.asp

I can't copy/paste it either.:shrug:

[Catherine Vincent]

8. I will include the link.

But they won't be able to open the link since they are blocked by the firewall also. The first poster helped me out, though. Thanks.

[Tin Man]

7. just send the snopes link to the guy

[patrice]

11. Snopes Debunk below . . .

Origins: The above-displayed photographs have beencirculaitng on the Internet since at least 2004, usually in e-mail forwards that set them in one of several Arab/Muslim areas (e.g. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestinian territories) and claim that the boy picured is being punished under a harsh sharia law system that imposes a penalty grossly out of proportion to the nature of the crime (i.e. having his arm crushed under a vehicle because he stole a loaf of bread).

What the photographs actually depict (according to the operator of the iste that originally published them) is performers hustling money from onlookers by staging an act, one in which a subject seemingly allows himself to be run over by a heavy vehicle and then emerges unscathed. (Note the man with the microphone in the first picture, who drums upbusiness and describes the action for observers. Also note the blanket placed under the boy's arm - not a consideration persons intent on severely punishing a lawbreaker would be likely to provide.) This is a common illusion, variations of which are performed by many magicians and accomplished through a variety of means, with no lasting harm done. That the subject is a small boy who grimaces his way through the stunt is all part of the act, intended to elicit sympathy and extra cash - despite his contorted facial expressions, the boy is not seriously hurt.

The versions of these photographs circulated via e-mail generally leave out the last pictures of the original series, which show the same boy after the conslusion of the stunt:

[keepCAblue]

12. Here. The pics aren't gruesome - just a scam trick to drum up money

Origins: The above-displayed photographs have been circulating on the Internet since at least 2004, usually in e-mail forwards that set them in one of several Arab/Muslim areas (e.g., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestinian territories) and claim that the boy pictured is being punished under a harsh sharia law system that imposes a penalty grossly out of proportion to the nature of the crime (i.e., having his arm crushed under a vehicle because he stole a loaf of
bread).

What the photographs actually depict (according to the operator of the site that originally published them) is performers hustling money from onlookers by staging an act, one in which a subject seemingly allows himself to be run over by a heavy vehicle and then emerges unscathed. (Note the man with the microphone in the first picture, who drums up business and describes the action for observers. Also note the blanket placed under the boy's arm — not a consideration persons intent on severely punishing a lawbreaker would be likely to provide.) This a common illusion, variations of which are performed by many magicians and accomplished through a variety of means, with no lasting harm done. That the subject is a small boy who grimaces his way through the stunt is all part of the act, intended to elicit sympathy and extra cash — despite his contorted facial expressions, the boy is not seriously hurt.

The versions of these photographs circulated via e-mail generally leave out the last pictures of the original series, which show the same boy after the conclusion of the stunt:

Last updated: 1 March 2006

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/crushboy.asp

[CoffeeCat]

17. Didn't you hear, this story is true...

This little boy was ripped out of his incubator--as an infant in Kuwait. He
was then raised by a nice couple inside a mobile weapons lab, that Colin
Powell pointed out on a Satellite map. After being forced to leave Iraq,
his arm was crushed in Iran for stealing bread.

....that's what my government told me and I believe every word.

:eyes:

[Leopolds Ghost]

18. Don't forget they removed his kidneys and he's on the run in Pakistan w/ mobile dialysis machine. nt