Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)

Re:Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (... by projectramo on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:06PM (#18867715)

Yeah, it turns out that those birds were not flying but were actually launched from catapults. One of them even landed in a pig sty and was the inspiration behind the game "angry birds."

You should definitely update your friends on social media now that you know.

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Re:Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (... by funkaster on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:35PM (#18867994)

You're talking about a different hoax. This was most likely CGI (more info in the wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_penguin_hoax)

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Re:Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (... by warent on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:44PM (#18868094)

I think that was the joke. projectramo was spreading misinformation while encouraging the op to share it, thus reliving the previous experience of repeating hoaxes as facts

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