Accidental Tourist. (Travel Intelligence).Before terrorists brought down the World Trade Center towers in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Jose Roberto Penteado was a Brazilian businessman. Today the 41-year-old from Campinas is the Tourist Guy, a global Internet legend. Or is he? Two weeks after the terrorist attacks in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , a doctored Internet photo showed a tourist atop the World Trade Center as a jetliner zoomed in. In an avalanche of faked photos that followed, the Tourist Guy was depicted signing the U.S. Declaration of Independence, standing on the Titanic Titanic (tītăn`ĭk), British liner that sank on the night of Apr. 14–15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg in the N Atlantic S of Newfoundland. More than 1,500 lives were lost. and riding with U.S. President John Kennedy on the day of his assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. . Web site www.touristofdeath.com ranks the cleverness of the photos. In November, Penteado stepped forward to confess that he was the Tourist Guy, speculating that the hoopla hoop·la n. Informal 1. a. Boisterous, jovial commotion or excitement. b. Extravagant publicity: The new sedan was introduced to the public with much hoopla. 2. started as an e-mail prank by friends. His admission gave him such celebrity status that Volkswagen offered him a part in a television commercial and strangers on the street asked for his autograph. That's before a Hungarian man, who refused to reveal his name, provided original photos giving argument to the claim he is the Tourist Guy. Either way, Tourist Guy's fame could be fleeting. Web site www.touristguy.com deleted its Tourist Guy content a few weeks after the terrorist attacks, replacing it with patriotic images of the United States. |
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