kek, Australia has the worst bushfires in the world and their government even impose this rule

>>211451566
this, they showed fuck all footage of the wreckage and the rescue operations. Dumb fuck company director got what he deserved couldn't have happened sooner.

>>211409179
what's hilarious is that Thomas Lockley's Yasuke book is like the modern version of this, and if it was pre-internet he'd have gotten away with it for at least a decade or more. the only reason he got away with it for a few years was due to the language barrier
>>211409260
it's less that and more this
>1976 - book comes out that's supposedly based on a real family history, becomes a bestseller. Second addition adds an afterward saying that nearly all the depicted events are dramatizations but the characters, family tree and timeline is real
>1977 - miniseries airs and is a huge success
>1977 - an English journalist discovers that the Gambian historian the author used to validate the Africa parts was was a fraud who wasn't credentialed and likely made up details key to the entire story. Author initially concedes that it may be inaccurate but later doubles down
>1978 - author sued for plagiarizing prose used in the book, settles out of court and his statement admits wrongdoing
>1979 - a sequel miniseries comes out covering the back half of the book, post civil war to the present day
>1981 - multiple historians discover that the 19th century records the author used to validate his post-Africa timeline actively contradict it and there are decades-long gaps in places, basically the only part that has any validity are the post-civil war parts involving the author's immediate relatives. This is where the author doubled down and claimed "well of course there are gaps, we told our stories orally and didn't write anything down"
>1993 - author dies, rich and an unrepentant fraud
>if you read this far, you're a fag. go outside