Fuck Balloon Boy, here’s a hoax you can really appreciate;

On the 20th anniversary of the notorious chemical plant disaster in Bhopal, India, Bichlbaum appeared on the BBC as a representative of Dow Chemical, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 calamity. He announced a $12 billion plan to provide medical care to the 120,000 victims of the disaster and to fully remediate the factory site. The company’s market value dropped $2 billion in 23 minutes before the hoax was discovered and Dow rushed to explain that it was still refusing to meet the victims’ demands for justice.

Excerpt from an interview with Andy Bichlbaum, one half of anti-corporate tricksters “The Yes Men”.

Sorry Michael Moore, I haven’t seen your film yet. I want to, but to tell you the truth I’ve really been holding out for “Yes Men Fix the World” set to hit theatres October 23, 2009.

For the uninitiated, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are collectively know as the Yes Men and in Andy’s words what they do “pass ourselves off as representatives of big corporations we don’t like. We make fake websites, then wait for people to accidentally invite us to conferences.”

You  have likely already heard about one of their stunts which involved  presenting the “Global Warming SurvivaBall” to gullible execs who lept at the chance to profit off fear, anxiety, and any potential future human suffering that accompany severe climate change (speaking of Hoax’s check out Brother Greg’s thoughts on the subject).

Check out the rest of  the interview on Counterpunch.org and take a second to gawk at the trailer too.

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