Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 28, 2016

Google Earth gives “I can see your house from here” a whole new meaning…

David Kirke must really want a Darwin award.

Bet the pizza became ice cold by the time it reached Kilimanjaro’s summit.

We can assume the pizza didn’t make it in 30 minutes or less.

Snopes throws a lot of doubt on the teenager’s claim to finding a Mayan city. Check it out at http://www.snopes.com/canadian-teen-satellite-maps/

Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…

Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…

I totally understand the dangerous sports and adrenaline rush. Years ago, I would try a trebuchet ride in a heart beat!

Here’s a video of them in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzunKZr3Eg

that pizza was for me

Alas, the Mayan city, Gadoury story is bunk. I believe it not, Ripley.

That Mayan city story was proven to be incorrect, last I heard.

For the article citing the Mayan city discovery as bunk go to this URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/20160511-Maya-Lost-City-Canadian-Teen-Discover-Constellations-Archaeology-Satellite-Stars-Gadoury/

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As to the trebuchat,,,shades of Cul de Sac and Dill’s brothers!

Isn’t that David Kirke the guy who launched his girlfriend on that thing to test it, and it broke her pelvis?!?

Wait a minute!! If there was no one there to “deliver” to, then all they did was carry food, like every other climber!

Was the pizza hot and how did the guy catapulted land?

Trebuchets weren’t designed to throw people at all.

A Wired news article indicates that the lost city is neither lost nor a city.

Google Search “That Long-Lost Mayan city a Teen Found Isn’t Lost … or a City”

From Wired:UPDATE 5/11/16 5:40 PM ET: Geoffrey Braswell, a mesoamerican archaeologist at UC San Diego, and his graduate students have, by coincidence, actually been working in this area, and they immediately recognized the features in the satellite photos. The first image, Braswell says, is of the Laguna El Civalón, and the two rectangular features next to it are fields, probably either weed-filled fallow fields or marijuana fields based on the amount of vegetation.

The feature in the second image is a dried-up swamp, though an interesting archaeological site lies just to the south. “San Felipe was an important stop on the Spanish camino real linking Campeche (Mexico) to Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala),” writes Braswell in a statement. The Mexican archaeologist Teri Arias Ortiz may have found a church while excavating the area.

William would never have found the city if it had not been for Street View.

Trebuchets have been used to ‘fling’ a variety of things, such as – a cow, a piano, and … a Buick. The power it generates is astonishing.

That William Gadoury story has been thoroughly debunked months ago.

No. He did NOT find an ancient Mayan city using GoogleEarth, and besides that the ancient Mayan city he didn’t find was in Campeche, Mexico, not Belize. So no, do NOT “believe it”…

Keeping this hoax alive, just prolongs the kid’s embarrassment.