Chinese now Hoaxing Aliens

[zorgon]

Chinese now Hoaxing Aliens

Seriously? he thought this would fool anyone?

Oh wait... there are those FB peeps




Man admits electrocuted alien story was a hoax - Video

Chinese state media reports that a man who claimed to have electrocuted an alien and kept the body in his freezer admits the story was made up. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

Charged with "fabricating a lie and disrupting social order"

[deuem]

Charged with "fabricating a lie and disrupting social order"

Wow, that would take out more than half the internet if this became global ! 

I will try and find out what the fine or charge is. Maybe 100rmb or 20 years in the pits. Just kidding!

[zorgon]

I will try and find out what the fine or charge is.

What was interesting is that the police were not interested until it was admitted a hoax   

[deuem]

He got 15 days in Jail. It seems it is against the law to say there are Aliens on the ground walking around. It stirs panic. It is a fragial subject and I need to find out more and why, without getting in trouble.

My guess is that the local police got pressure from up the ladder and then acted. That is only a guess.

[zorgon]

It seems it is against the law to say there are Aliens on the ground walking around.

That explains the lack of Alien sightings from China

[deuem]

That explains the lack of Alien sightings from China

Yes, 15 days in jail and maybe also a fine would shut up a lot of people.

[zorgon]

Well he did get international media attention and FB spam

Chinese farmer jailed for making a rubber alien

As proof of extraterrestrial life, one Chinese farmer's crudely built rubber alien, stashed in a chest freezer in his garage, was rather unconvincing.

By Malcolm Moore in Beijing
2:20PM BST 12 Jun 2013

But the farmer, named in the Chinese media only as Mr Li, perhaps underestimated the nannying tendencies of the Chinese state.

Shortly after he proudly posted photographs of his alien on the internet, he was arrested by the police for five days for "fabrications" that "disturbed the public order".

Mr Li was forced to admit that he had indeed sought to use his model, held together with chicken wire and glue, to mislead his fellow Chinese about the existence of celestial creatures.

Police image of the alien body explaining it is a fake (Rex Features)

Initially, the farmer had posted his close encounter on a Chinese website, together with a shaggy dog story about how he had captured the alien while setting traps for rabbits.

"I was setting an electric trap for rabbits by the Yellow river when I saw a bright light," he said. "Above my bike, a UFO was floating. One by one, five aliens came down, but one of them stumbled into one of my rabbit traps and was electrocuted. The others went back into their ship and flew away."

However after his post went viral, the Chinese authorities moved quickly to limit the effect it might have on the extremely gullible.

Police image of the alien body explaining it is a fake (Rex Features)

Not only was Mr Li's initial post deleted, but the police soon arrived to arrest him.

"After the police interrogated me, I confessed I was a fan of UFOs and the alien was a fake. I just wanted other people to believe that aliens existed," he told the Shandong Evening News.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10115832/Chinese-farmer-jailed-for-making-a-rubber-alien.html