Showing posts with label baltimore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baltimore. Show all posts

28 January 2016

When it snows 30 inches in a major east coast city, where do you put all the snow?

In the parking lots around M&T Bank Stadium. This picture does not do it justice. These piles are 25-30+ feet high and cover several acres.


28 April 2015

Deconstructing a misleading tweet, one photo at a time

I found this tweet today:

Over 6,000 RTs! Except there's one problem. The two bottom pictures, which purport to show "white people in Baltimore looting"? The first was published on sfgate.com last November:


And the second was taken from reddit in January (and was also published on sfgate.com). Both pictures are apparently from an unrelated event in Oakland.



When confronted by this, the tweeter resorted to old faithful: "the narrative:" Where have we heard this before?