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Air Force One paint job a hoax

Posted in Stupid by Derek at 3:17 pm
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It turns out that last Tuesdays video of hooded vandals spray painting Air Force One was nothing more than a fabricated hoax by a New York design studio.

The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video � employed by a New York fashion company � revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One.

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7 Responses to “Air Force One paint job a hoax”

  1. Emory says:

    wait… didn’t the website originally say that it was a hoax. Not those exact words, but they said something like that, I’m sure.

  2. carl says:

    yes they did…it was in the legal disclaimer…to paraphrase it , it said that tese events were to show the creators views or something and to express his ideas and that they dont approve of vandalism and that they did not do any thing illegal

  3. It was obvious.

  4. Jake says:

    The creators admitted it was a hoax on their website the day it was released. It took this long for UES to figure it out? :P

  5. Alex says:

    when i read the tile of this, i thaught they composited the grafiti onto footage of air force one, but i was even more amazed to find out they made a 747 look like air force one.

  6. Josh says:

    It obviously was

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