{"id":1467,"date":"2003-07-18T05:31:45","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/18\/hoaxing-bambi\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:34:11","slug":"hoaxing-bambi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/18\/hoaxing-bambi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoaxing Bambi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14110,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.huntingforbambi.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14111,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=3115633&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050405092438\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com:80\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:19:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 01:06:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 01:06:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14112,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.snopes.com\\\/inboxer\\\/outrage\\\/bambi.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.snopes.com\\\/inboxer\\\/outrage\\\/bambi.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The jury&#8217;s still out on this one, but I&#8217;d be willing to bet that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntingforbambi.com\/\" title=\"Hunting for Bambi\">Hunting for Bambi<\/a> &#8216;business&#8217; (in which men dress up in camo, grab paintball guns, and go running through the woods &#8216;hunting&#8217; naked women) is nothing more than an elaborate spoof. While most <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=3115633\" title=\"Las Vegas Groups Protest Naked 'Bambi' Hunts\">media reports<\/a> have been long on hype and short on investigation, the Urban Legends Reference Pages are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/inboxer\/outrage\/bambi.asp\" title=\"Snopes.com: Hunting for Bambi\">extremely skeptical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  We&#8217;re still investigating, but we&#8217;d be quite surprised if this scheme was hatched as anything but an attempt to sell videos. (After all, \\$19.99 tapes and DVDs, and not \\$10,000 hunts, are the product advertised on the site&#8217;s opening page.) Our estimation is that the whole &#8220;hunt&#8221; concept was a phony promotional dog-and-pony show staged for credulous reporters, but now that Hunting for Bambi has attracted plenty of free publicity from the media, they&#8217;re attempting to make the concept work for real.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury&#8217;s still out on this one, but I&#8217;d be willing to bet that the Hunting for Bambi &#8216;business&#8217; (in which men dress up in camo, grab paintball guns, and go running through the woods &#8216;hunting&#8217; naked women) is nothing more than an elaborate spoof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}