Debunked: Google photos show Ottawa Parliament bullet holes are fake

BombDr.
I have no claim about Mr Vickers. I don't have a crystal ball and can't see the future in reference to any investigations that may or may not happen, but I do know that these things take a very long time and elections, legislation, etc will not be put on hold until their results are in (if, in fact, any investigation does take place.)

I am trying to insist on seeing evidence. Names. Unedited Video. First Hand Accounts. Photos from verifiable sources. The bullet hole story was full of holes. There *might* be one new hole/scuff near the bottom of that wall. That's not good enough for me. Sorry.
 
BombDr.
I have no claim about Mr Vickers. I don't have a crystal ball and can't see the future in reference to any investigations that may or may not happen, but I do know that these things take a very long time and elections, legislation, etc will not be put on hold until their results are in (if, in fact, any investigation does take place.)

I am trying to insist on seeing evidence. Names. Unedited Video. First Hand Accounts. Photos from verifiable sources. The bullet hole story was full of holes. There *might* be one new hole/scuff near the bottom of that wall. That's not good enough for me. Sorry.

The claim here was that the mislabeled bullet holes were evidence of a faked scene. Since CBC retracted that part of the story, and two separate photos show what look like new bullet holes, I really don't see what you are getting at. If you've got some specific claim of evidence you want to investigate then please start a new thread. This thread is about the supposedly fake bullet holes, which have been fully explained as pre-existing marks that was mistakenly identified in a story that was later corrected.
 
I don't have a crystal ball and can't see the future in reference to any investigations that may or may not happen
Do you think it is likely that any element of this incident will not be investigated? Do you have a precedent of murder, attempted murder and security breech of a centre of government going uninvestigated?
I am trying to insist on seeing evidence. Names. Unedited Video. First Hand Accounts. Photos from verifiable sources. The bullet hole story was full of holes. There *might* be one new hole/scuff near the bottom of that wall. That's not good enough for me. Sorry.
How do you think your personal access to a live investigation should occur?
 
This is good - we've debunked the claim of CBC news that those holes were bullet holes made on Oct 22, 2014. I think that's important. It actually *is* evidence that the story was a fake, intentional or not.

As for the investigation that may or may not occur, I believe that might be an issue for a separate thread. Don't want to derail or get off topic.
 
This is good - we've debunked the claim of CBC news that those holes were bullet holes made on Oct 22, 2014. I think that's important. It actually *is* evidence that the story was a fake, intentional or not.

"Fake" is deliberate. You can't have an accidental fake. The story was not fake, it was simply incorrect. It had a mistake in it, and they corrected it the next day.
 
This is good - we've debunked the claim of CBC news that those holes were bullet holes made on Oct 22, 2014. I think that's important. It actually *is* evidence that the story was a fake, intentional or not.

I don't know that I'd go as far as Mick: I'm not sure that "fake" is actually always deliberate...

but the point is valid...there is zero evidence--at this point--that anyone was trying to fool anyone
re. these holes...and words like "fake" come off as an attempt--despite an absence of proof--to imply otherwise.
No good reason to go there.


p.s. I also don't want to credit us as debunking in November a story CBC corrected in October :rolleyes:
 
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I don't know that I'd go as far as Mick: I'm not sure that "fake" is actually always deliberate...

Well, you are getting into personal semantics there. I always say if there's a dispute over a word, then just don't use it. Say what actually happened.

But to me, and I think most people, "fake" means it was "faked" - the very use of the word strongly implies that someone deliberately faked it. I don't think you can get away from that, so I think the use of the word is disingenuous here, when there is no evidence it was faked.
 
BombDr.
I have no claim about Mr Vickers. I don't have a crystal ball and can't see the future in reference to any investigations that may or may not happen, but I do know that these things take a very long time and elections, legislation, etc will not be put on hold until their results are in (if, in fact, any investigation does take place.)

I am trying to insist on seeing evidence. Names. Unedited Video. First Hand Accounts. Photos from verifiable sources. The bullet hole story was full of holes. There *might* be one new hole/scuff near the bottom of that wall. That's not good enough for me. Sorry.
i don;t see what;s good enough or not from what there is out there so far that clearly won;t be released until after a proper enquiry. the original story said here's some bullet holes. and they turned out not to be. I suspect the press just kind of assumed, if that was the alcove, these marks were repaired bullet holes.
As Vickers was a well trained officer and he was shooting from close range, how many bullet holes are you actually expecting? I know other officers came in firing too, but I would expect a reasonable number to have gone into the attacker.
 
As Vickers was a well trained officer and he was shooting from close range, how many bullet holes are you actually expecting? I know other officers came in firing too, but I would expect a reasonable number to have gone into the attacker.

The account from CBC says:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ott...that-ended-the-attack-on-parliament-1.2812802

Vickers immediately ran behind the other side of the pillar. That put him an arm's-length away from Bibeau.

According to guards, Vickers actually could see the barrel of Bibeau's gun pointing out, a foot away.

Vickers did not hesitate.

In one motion, sources told CBC News he dove to the floor around the pillar, at the feet of Bibeau, turning on his back as he landed and simultaneously firing his weapon upwards at Bibeau.

Bibeau was hit multiple times and fell to the ground. Vickers kept firing, emptying his entire magazine.

As soon as Bibeau dropped, the rest of the security team sprinted forward and opened fire.


Several bullet holes in the walls in the alcove give a sense of the numbers of rounds fired, and many more hit Bibeau.
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With the correction:

This story has been edited from a previous version that stated there were nine bullet holes in the wall near the Parliamentary library, based on information from multiple sources. In fact, upon further investigation, not all the marks were caused by the bullets. The exact number of bullets that hit the wall in the shooting is unclear‎.
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Sound like most of the shots were fired while Bibeau was on the ground, only a few of Vicker's initial shots might have hit the wall.
 
quite the crack team of crime scene analysts if the number of bullet holes in a wall is unclear. And that's exactly the type of thing I'm talking about. We know more about Jian Ghomeshi than we do about this attack.
 
quite the crack team of crime scene analysts if the number of bullet holes in a wall is unclear. And that's exactly the type of thing I'm talking about. We know more about Jian Ghomeshi than we do about this attack.
Why is the number of holes important? What difference would it makes if there were 3 or 7?

It's not like there's any great mystery here. Guy runs int building, shoots at people, gets shot. Arguing over third hand reports is pointless.
 
well it seems pretty clear that you guys are more faith based than science based.
if it was said by a policeman or politician you believe it.
I am disappointed. I think perhaps the definition of skepticism has changed.

and this web site is s-l-o-w. I feel like it's 1993.
 
well it seems pretty clear that you guys are more faith based than science based.
if it was said by a policeman or politician you believe it.
I am disappointed. I think perhaps the definition of skepticism has changed.

and this web site is s-l-o-w. I feel like it's 1993.
you sound like a politician and I don't believe you.
 
That's not good enough for me. Sorry.

You have no evidence of fake bullet holes and claim it would be impossible for you to ever get any. You doubt the Reddit images are legit and if they are, the damage could be from something other than gun fire. You don't believe the accounts of politicians or the police, just because. Will you trust the media as a source, because clearly they make mistakes.

If images, first hand accounts and official reports aren't acceptable, then what is?

I believe the official account because at this point, there is no reason to doubt it. The inconsistencies regarding the bullet holes was explained on the first page of this thread.
 
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quite the crack team of crime scene analysts if the number of bullet holes in a wall is unclear. And that's exactly the type of thing I'm talking about. We know more about Jian Ghomeshi than we do about this attack.
Who are the team of analysts you refer to here? It's highly unlikely that you will obtain any forensic analysis details until well after the coronial. Furthermore, why are you entitled to them?
well it seems pretty clear that you guys are more faith based than science based.
Please outline the science based evidence that you are making your claims upon. If you are claiming something different than the version of events put forward, the burden of proof is on you.
And so far, there is no proof of anything outlined by a published (and since corrected) mistake about holes in a wall.
 
well it seems pretty clear that you guys are more faith based than science based.
if it was said by a policeman or politician you believe it.
I am disappointed. I think perhaps the definition of skepticism has changed.

You have picked hairs and searched for faults or anomalies of an event that you are also complaining that you do not have enough information about....?

You appear to reasonably expect instant and unfettered access to a live investigation, for no other purpose than to satisfy your curiosity. You seem unsatisfied with the rate at which multiple Canadian departments are releasing information for your personal examination.

However, you present nothing to the discussion, not even a single claim, except you perceive something fishy, and then a baseless assertion that we are somehow at fault for not agreeing with your non-claim, devoid of any evidence at all.

Can you, for the sake of clarity, explain what exactly you think happened and why please?
 
Who are the team of analysts you refer to here? It's highly unlikely that you will obtain any forensic analysis details until well after the coronial. Furthermore, why are you entitled to them?

I was responding to the CBC correction which states "The exact number of bullet holes isn't clear." At first, they reported a story, as fact, and claimed 9 bullet holes. This was not presented in the heat of the moment. This was a pre-written and choreographed piece by Evan Solomon, who had time and resources with which to verify the story he was presenting. That presentation which was watched by many & absorbed as truth is what lingers in people's memories and will be what our government relies on when selling us new legislation. The correction was quiet as far as i can tell, and did not go far enough.

They should have named the source of their original claim that there were 9 bullet holes.

Please outline the science based evidence that you are making your claims upon.

Please tell me the science based evidence that you are using. You and I are getting the same info from the same sources and it seems that neither one of us can tell where Evan Solomon got his incorrect information. Where we differ, it seems, is that you are willing to trust (put your faith in) some unnamed person or a reporter who has been proven to have been wrong. I am not. I would like real, named witnesses that saw this shooting. There were apparently a lot of them.

And so far, there is no proof of anything outlined by a published (and since corrected) mistake about holes in a wall.

That's right. So far there is no proof of anything.
 
You have picked hairs and searched for faults or anomalies of an event that you are also complaining that you do not have enough information about....?

You appear to reasonably expect instant and unfettered access to a live investigation, for no other purpose than to satisfy your curiosity. You seem unsatisfied with the rate at which multiple Canadian departments are releasing information for your personal examination.

I am a citizen in a country that is heading down a path of war, increased surveillance and new, draconian legislation which will restrict personal freedoms. The government will rely on this event to justify those actions. My insistence on evidence of how exactly this event unfolded is based on that and not on mere curiosity. This is more than personal, this is about democracy.

However, you present nothing to the discussion, not even a single claim, except you perceive something fishy,

In my very first post I presented many questions and perhaps even a claim ... it was much longer than it currently appears. Mick West deleted that part, as evidenced in the post. I am following the rules by sticking tightly to the bullet hole problem.

and then a baseless assertion that we are somehow at fault for not agreeing with your non-claim, devoid of any evidence at all.

I've been unclear. What I'm trying to say is that I believe you are not being skeptical if you stick to believing the story as presented devoid of any evidence at all.

Can you, for the sake of clarity, explain what exactly you think happened and why please?

I think gunshots were fired and that lots of people saw what happened. I think that Evan Solomon put together a story based on accounts that he pieced together from sources. I think his editor approved that story, and that assistants to him put the piece together. Then they ran it. It was dramatic and moving. And also it was largely untrue. I think they then retracted a large portion of the story without offering an alternative version which leaves us all to ask, "Well then, what really happened?"
 
I am a citizen in a country that is heading down a path of war, increased surveillance and new, draconian legislation which will restrict personal freedoms.
Which war?
My insistence on evidence of how exactly this event unfolded is based on that and not on mere curiosity.
What would you consider the right amount of evidential release? How long after the event should they release all the information. Can you name anywhere in the world that conducts investigations in this manner?
What I'm trying to say is that I believe you are not being skeptical if you stick to believing the story as presented devoid of any evidence at all.
Being skeptical also requires a reason to be so. I see no reason to be suspicious about what happened in this case, and even after all of your assertions, I still see no reason get to so out of shape about the photos.
And also it was largely untrue. I think they then retracted a large portion of the story without offering an alternative version which leaves us all to ask, "Well then, what really happened?"
Is untrue the same as erroneous? I ask as your tone still suggests that you suspect something.

What would an alternative version look like? Other than "We looked at some marks on a wall, some of which were bullets holes, some of which looked like bullet holes, and we mixed up the two types of marks" because that is the totality of the mystery I see here.

You have taken a labelling error from a news story (they make mistakes occasionally) and added war, personal freedoms, surveillance, draconian legislation (which you do not present) and use emotive terms like 'what really happened', 'fake', 'untrue', and take the fact that you have not been personally informed about the status of the investigation as a contributing factor in your suspicion. You will have noticed that no-one here seems to agree with your line of reasoning, so instead you imply that we would all accept what the government says, or that we are unduly unscientific, when even the most cursory glance over the forums is demonstrably incorrect.

I utterly fail to see your concerns here at all.
 
I am seeing strange formatting and the quote function doesn't seem to have worked this time. I'm getting Java error messages, just FYI.

Suffice to say, at this point, that I have nothing further to add. I will just leave you with my thoughts about something BombDr said above:

"Being skeptical also requires a reason to be so. I see no reason to be suspicious about what happened in this case...,"

I would agree. My reasons for being skeptical are well laid out already. I have reason not to blindly trust the government, and I feel the same about much of the media now that it is run by a only a very, very small handful of people who have come to be in their near monopolistic positions tanks to policy changes by the very government they are now the mouthpieces for. And you know, I assume, that the CBC (Evan Solomon) is their employee.

The government lies and covers up facts all the time. To try and argue otherwise would make you look extremely foolish and naive. Still, I realize how powerful that belief system is, and feel that this argument would be like me trying to argue to a Born Again Christian that perhaps there was no literal boat built by Noah at the behest of God.

It's okay. No harm no foul. I didn't come here to convert anyone. I mistakenly thought perhaps this was a community that liked evidence. But I see that it is just another community who only debunks non-official stories.

I have my pick of 10,000, 000 of those sites, so if I feel like doing that sort of thing I'll go to one of them that works a little faster.

cheers.
 
I am seeing strange formatting and the quote function doesn't seem to have worked this time. I'm getting Java error messages, just FYI.

Suffice to say, at this point, that I have nothing further to add. I will just leave you with my thoughts about something BombDr said above:

"Being skeptical also requires a reason to be so. I see no reason to be suspicious about what happened in this case...,"

I would agree. My reasons for being skeptical are well laid out already. I have reason not to blindly trust the government, and I feel the same about much of the media now that it is run by a only a very, very small handful of people who have come to be in their near monopolistic positions tanks to policy changes by the very government they are now the mouthpieces for. And you know, I assume, that the CBC (Evan Solomon) is their employee.

The government lies and covers up facts all the time. To try and argue otherwise would make you look extremely foolish and naive. Still, I realize how powerful that belief system is, and feel that this argument would be like me trying to argue to a Born Again Christian that perhaps there was no literal boat built by Noah at the behest of God.

It's okay. No harm no foul. I didn't come here to convert anyone. I mistakenly thought perhaps this was a community that liked evidence. But I see that it is just another community who only debunks non-official stories.

I have my pick of 10,000, 000 of those sites, so if I feel like doing that sort of thing I'll go to one of them that works a little faster.

cheers.


Virtually everyone here is naturally quite skeptical...that's not the same as jumping to the conclusion that many things aren't--mundanely--pretty much what they appear to be most of the time.

No one here "blindly trusts the government" but your comment could be taken as
trying to imply otherwise. Your remarks about the media likewise. Perhaps you have
inside information (?) about the media that we lack...

Are you a citizen of Canada? The U.S.? How is "I am a citizen in a country that is heading down a path of war" to be interpreted? I'm an American and have no idea what you're thinking of that leads to imminent war, never mind using that non-evidence as proof of something else. Comments like "The government lies and covers up facts all the time" only make sense in this context if you show a few examples (that have some similarity with this Ottawa situation) where the
"the government" (Canadian? U.S.?) is known to have been caught being intentionally dishonest on a significant fact.
And again, so long as your pronouncements are essential fact-free, suggesting that
others look "...extremely foolish and naive" for not sharing your alarm, probably
is not a great way to make new friends.
You are right though, that there are a great many lesser sites out there in which one can
declare most things fishy--without the slightest whiff of evidence--and be embraced by
dozens of others who likewise won't point out that there's no "there" there.
Best of luck.
 
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The government lies and covers up facts all the time. To try and argue otherwise would make you look extremely foolish and naive. Still, I realize how powerful that belief system is, and feel that this argument would be like ...

Metabunk is often accused of "blindly trusting the government". I've been posting here for a while and your accusation of the people here is simply not true, assuming that's what you were insinuating.

Accepting the retraction of a news story that mistakenly reported 7 bullet holes instead of a possible 3 is not evidence of blind trust, nor is it a portent of the erosion of Canadian democracy. Farewell.
 
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The government lies and covers up facts all the time. To try and argue otherwise would make you look extremely foolish and naive. Still, I realize how powerful that belief system is, and feel that this argument would be like me trying to argue to a Born Again Christian that perhaps there was no literal boat built by Noah at the behest of God.

Where have they done so here?
 
At first, they reported a story, as fact, and claimed 9 bullet holes. This was not presented in the heat of the moment. This was a pre-written and choreographed piece by Evan Solomon, who had time and resources with which to verify the story he was presenting. That presentation which was watched by many & absorbed as truth is what lingers in people's memories and will be what our government relies on when selling us new legislation. The correction was quiet as far as i can tell, and did not go far enough.

They should have named the source of their original claim that there were 9 bullet holes.

It was obviously the photo that they showed. They had a photo which showed the bullet holes, they just misidentified them, and COUNTED them.

The actual bullet holes were lower down.


They corrected the story the day after. That's all there is here. You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
 
That presentation which was watched by many & absorbed as truth is what lingers in people's memories and will be what our government relies on when selling us new legislation. The correction was quiet as far as i can tell, and did not go far enough.
So there being 'nine bullet holes' in that wall instead of two is going to be the corner-stone of some new legislation that is going to do... what? What is the legislation they are going to pass that relies on exaggerating the number and arrangement of those bullet holes?
 
To me this is another example of a CT being fed by lazy journalism. The paradox is that we're constantly told by supporters of the theories that the media can't be trusted.. The only exception seems to be when it supports the CT's particular theory.

It's important to remember the pressure to break an 'exclusive' report, corners are cut, rash decisions made and it's all in the pursuit of ratings. If history has proved anything it is that the earlier the report the more likely it is to be wrong.

In this case the journalists added 2 and 2 and came up with 5... They were simply wrong. They realised, they corrected it.

To me it feels like the end of it.
 
We need to understand conspiracist logic here.

Misreporting the bullet holes = the shooting never happened.

Misreporting that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary = the murders never took place.

Misreporting that WTC 7 had collapsed = "inside jobby".
 
"they are clearly just old patches that the reported mistakenly identified as bullet holes..."

Seriously? Clearly? The news didn't think it was clear. The OP thought the picture was from bullet holes from the other day not April 2013 as I'm sure you also believed.

I don't know how anyone would think they were bullet holes. THey're not holes. Unless they already filled them in. And the bullets hit the wall in a symmetrical pattern!


well it seems pretty clear that you guys are more faith based than science based.
if it was said by a policeman or politician you believe it.
I am disappointed. I think perhaps the definition of skepticism has changed.

and this web site is s-l-o-w. I feel like it's 1993.

I think you might be one of those people who will believe anything is possible unless you see a video of this shooting actually happening. Life isn't a movie.

. I think they then retracted a large portion of the story without offering an alternative version which leaves us all to ask, "Well then, what really happened?"

A large portion? They corrected the bullet hole statement. The circles weren't bullet holes. The bullet holes were lower. How does that change "what really happened?"
 
This was a pre-written and choreographed piece by Evan Solomon, who had time and resources with which to verify the story he was presenting. That presentation which was watched by many & absorbed as truth is what lingers in people's memories and will be what our government relies on when selling us new legislation.
Yep. It's just a mistake in reporting, whether pre rehearsed or not. It happens all the time and usually because they're trying to be the first to report on it so accuracy suffers. Are you really trying to say government would use an obscure reference to holes in a wall inaccurately reported to draft new legislation?? Since when do governments rely on "facts" from media to push law??
Please tell me the science based evidence that you are using. You and I are getting the same info from the same sources and it seems that neither one of us can tell where Evan Solomon got his incorrect information. Where we differ, it seems, is that you are willing to trust (put your faith in) some unnamed person or a reporter who has been proven to have been wrong. I am not. I would like real, named witnesses that saw this shooting. There were apparently a lot of them.
This is nothing to d with "faith". I am accepting what has happened because there is no real evidence to cast doubt on the account reported. My point is if you wish to rebut the events as reported then it is up to you to provide proof. So far you have provided speculation only regarding holes in a wall which really amounts to no proof on your behalf at all.
 
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