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  • 2018-09-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Man Die from Shooting a Gun at Hurricane Florence? (en)
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  • In September 2018, the arrival of Hurricane Florence on the eastern coast of the United States (especially North and South Carolina) brought its fair share of online misinformation and hoaxes, including one false story inspired by a prank reused from the 2017 hurricane season. Myrtle Beach Man Who Shot at Hurricane Florence Dies After Bullet Ricochets, read the headline of a 13 September 2018 article on the CGCNews.com website: This story was fabricated. We could find no corroboration for the notion that someone died after shooting a round at Hurricane Florence, either in South Carolina or anywhere else, although we checked with law enforcement agencies and news sources from the states in the path of the storm. Police in Myrtle Beach told the McLatchey news agency that they had received no reports of any such incident. The Facebook event mentioned by CGC News is real and had 34,000 would-be attendants as of 14 September 2018. The creator of that virtual event added the following disclaimer: Note: do not actually discharge firearms into the air. You could kill someone and you cannot frighten a hurricane. I cant believe I actually have to write this. Shooting guns at Hurricane Florence to scare it away was very similar to a September 2017 Facebook event called Shoot at Hurricane Irma, a virtual assembly later characterized by its creator as a joke that spiraled out of control. (en)
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