Some of the conspiracy theorists are either grasping at straws, or just making things up:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_376815_449695851730677_279813322_n_20120723_133548.jpg)
For a start it's not San Diego, it's New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, Occupy Wall Street. Here's the original:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223...otestors-blocked-brooklyn-bridge-photos-p.htm
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_167353_occupy_wall_street_protest.jpeg_20120723_133932.jpg)
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The carried protestor is actually Ari Cowen:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/the_world_we_want_to_see/
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_Ari_Cowen_20120723_140127.jpg)
It seems like whoever made the hoax image simply trolled through all the images they could find of Occupy protesters until they found one that had a superficial resemblance, and then used a low resolution version of the image to hide their deception. Presumably the hoaxer had some kind of anti-Occupy motive.
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_376815_449695851730677_279813322_n_20120723_133548.jpg)
For a start it's not San Diego, it's New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, Occupy Wall Street. Here's the original:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223...otestors-blocked-brooklyn-bridge-photos-p.htm
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_167353_occupy_wall_street_protest.jpeg_20120723_133932.jpg)
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_167353_occupy_wall_street_protest.jf3da4db7c674cb2e64a4201e1bb73d95.jpg)
The carried protestor is actually Ari Cowen:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/the_world_we_want_to_see/
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/contrailscience.com_skitch_Ari_Cowen_20120723_140127.jpg)
It seems like whoever made the hoax image simply trolled through all the images they could find of Occupy protesters until they found one that had a superficial resemblance, and then used a low resolution version of the image to hide their deception. Presumably the hoaxer had some kind of anti-Occupy motive.
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