Status: Email hoax (real pictures, fake caption)
Bad: Falling for an email hoax. Worse: Using the hoax as the basis for your presentation to the local city planning commission, thereby displaying your gullibility to the entire public.
As reported by the
Muncie Star Press (no link), Don Love gets the award for doing the latter. He received an email containing a series of pictures of an opulent estate (shown below), with the caption:
In case you're wondering where this hotel is, it isn't a hotel at all. IT IS A HOUSE! It's owned by the family of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi.
Enraged, he made a slide presentation out of the pictures and showed them to the planning commission, as part of his effort to get them to approve construction of an ethanol plant. His point was that they should promote local energy projects, to prevent all the city's money going to greedy, oil-rich sheiks. He told them:
"This is the type of thing being done with your petro dollars that I want to re-patriate. Keep in mind the gentleman has more than 20 wives. This is one of 70 baths. Some are bigger than my house. This is his little swimming pool. These are his cars."
Of course, the pictures don't show a sheik's palace. In reality they show a fancy hotel in Abu Dhabi called the
Emirates Palace. All the stuff about 20 wives is bogus too. If Love had bothered to do any research, he would have found this out. He probably could also have found some real pictures of a sheik's palace, which would have been a more effective way of making his point. Incidentally, my other house (the one in my daydreams) looks just like the one in the pictures.
Comments
Just goes to show it pays not to be blinded by jealousy!
Instead of building "This type of houses" you should help the people dying in every corner of the world...
Ooofffff,,,Come on guys stop thinking as you are in the stone age.. We are in the information age
Estoy planeando hacer una igual en Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
who cares if we were fooled? Wow, I can create something that'll fool you if I wanted to waste my time and what would that prove, really? That you're dumb? NOT!
http://www.emiratespalace.com/
GOD BLESS THE ARAB WORLD!!!
Dont know why stupid people do things like this, i guess jelousy, instead of spending their free time in something better than confusing people that unfortunatelly are not smart enough to tell the diference.
I pray for u Sir Shaikh Zayed that God bless u.U should live long.
This is a 7 star hotel in the U.A.E,
it is NOT the palace of the late ruler sheikh zayed. The people of the U.A.E loved sheikh zayed because he was the one who united 7 small emirates into one new country called the U.A.E, He was a sheikh who cared alot for his people and always helped foreign countries who needed help.
the worst web site ever!!!!
http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/main.htm
you lil kids have a look at this
http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/main.htm
its a HOTEL.. we dont have to explain more, its just because u WANT TO BELIEVE that it was his house !!
and by the way
if he lived in such hotel in his life time.. we will keep loving him till the last minute of our lives,, in fact, we as a nation would build him such palace and give it to him as a gift..he is the real father of all of us, not only UAE ,, but mostly all arab countries.. and even foreign ones used to love and respect him...
I've studied in the states, and uk, and really realized how much you folks believe the outer shells of matters and always willing to make propaganda out of it for no obvious reason just to prove to yourselves how much stupid you are! plz get out of the box and think wise!!
Cares !!
All things considered, I would rather fund my kids' (or others') educations than continue pouring billions of dollars each month into the pockets of OPEC nations, while spending billions more fighting the rest of the world for fossil fuels.
I live in Abu Dhabi, and I can assure you that this is a hotel, and not anyones house!
Its called Emirates Palace Hotel, and you can google it out if you want.
I was there last month, as Justin Timberlake held his concert there.
The Arab Americans and the American boot lickers of the sheikhs are trying to downplay the debauched and extravagant lifestyle of these repugnant creatures. I'm also shocked on how shallow their own minds are when they look upon such crap as a source of "jealousy" between each other.
Last but not least .. common guys! It's just another 150 or 200 years at most .. when the oil wells run dry and the descendents of our much admired sheikhs and sheikhas will be seen selling corn on the cob along the streets where their palaces once stood at the expense of the hungry children in their region.