.Golden Eagle Snatches Kid - (HOAX)

[alagary]

Wanted to put this somewhere . Not sure of the right place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI

(Edit to add "hoax" to subject line=MB)

[klaasend]

Wanted to put this somewhere . Not sure of the right place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI

WOW, never seen anything like that before!  Glad the baby is ok.  Amazing!

[KittyMom]

I saw something on tv earlier that this is believed to be a hoax.  The first time I saw it I thought it was real.  I hope it is a hoax because I don't want to have to be looking to the sky now.  I spend enough time watching the creatures on the ground around my kids.

[alagary]

12/20/12   UPDATE: 'Eagle Snatches Kid' Video Makers Admit Hoax 

"Three students studying animation and digital design at Montreal's Centre NAD, the school says, made a video that's gone viral today because it looks (sort of) like an eagle snatched a baby off the ground and started to fly away with the little kid.
But Centre NAD "reassures Montrealers" that there's "no danger of being snatched by a royal eagle." The video was a digitized class project, not a real snatching."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/19/167610327/eagle-snatches-kid-video-the-debunking-begins

[MuffyBee]

Thank you for the update alagary.  I was initially skeptical, but I didn't totally exclude the idea this could happen.  I checked with snopes.com yesterday and it noted some were skeptical about the video but snopes hadn't deemed it  true or false at the time I looked.  I'm glad to see it was a class project and not a child endangered.   I live in an area where there are  owls, hawks and etc.  They go after jack rabbits, which can weigh 10 lbs., plus I'm sure there's some cats and dogs that have become their prey. 

[KittyMom]

WOW.  Those students are scary smart.  Can you imagine what a few years of experience will have them producing?