12-01-2008, 07:04 PM
I know technically this is old news, it actually broke a couple years back. But I just watched a documentary about a lady named Tanya Head, who not only claimed to be a survivor of the South Tower of the WTC (76th floor, I think) but her fiance was killed in the north tower.
She went on to become a member of a Survior support group, co-ordinated fundraisers, got the survivors access to Ground Zero (before it was just families of victims), gave tours of a memorial to dignitaries and so on. Soon it began to unravel when the NY Times was doing a follow up article in 2005 or so and realized that she was not among the survivors they interviewed after the attack....and no one really knew her.
Turns out it was all some elaborate hoax, just for the attention. She even said that her scarred up arm was from burns she suffered during her dramatic escape.
Is this lady fucking nuts..to take advantage of such a tragic event?
Here is an article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...re-up.html
She went on to become a member of a Survior support group, co-ordinated fundraisers, got the survivors access to Ground Zero (before it was just families of victims), gave tours of a memorial to dignitaries and so on. Soon it began to unravel when the NY Times was doing a follow up article in 2005 or so and realized that she was not among the survivors they interviewed after the attack....and no one really knew her.
Turns out it was all some elaborate hoax, just for the attention. She even said that her scarred up arm was from burns she suffered during her dramatic escape.
Is this lady fucking nuts..to take advantage of such a tragic event?
Here is an article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...re-up.html