Musician Ted Nugent despatched $2 million price of heavy tools to Chimney Rock, North Carolina, to assist in catastrophe reduction after Hurricane Helene.
A rumor that musician Ted Nugent despatched $2 million price of heavy equipment to Chimney Rock, North Carolina, following Hurricane Helene circulated on-line in October 2024. A Fb post by America’s Final Line of Protection Fb claimed the musician stated, “They’ll preserve it so long as they want it.” The submit added, “Not all heroes put on capes.”
(America’s Final Line of Protection Fb web page)
One individual shared the submit and wrote, “A real hero.” One other consumer who shared the declare added, “Extra individuals like him must be doing this.”
An article by the Dunning-Kruger Instances expanded on the declare, including:
Ted Nugent has actually come by means of for the individuals of Chimney Rock. In accordance with sources close to Wichita, The Nuge is sending $2 million price of heavy tools from his ranches in Montana, Upstate New York, and Iceland to assist rebuild the roads out and in of city.
“He is sending 11 excavators, 14 tractors, and a push mower,” stated the man from Witchita who instructed us the story, “He is additionally lending them a half-dozen beluga whales from the Iceland ranch. He would not actually personal them, however they’re his buddies.”
Whereas some readers appeared to interpret the rumor as truth, there was no proof of Nugent sending heavy equipment to Chimney Rock, and no credible news outlet reported on the declare.
The rumor originated with the article by Dunning-Kruger Instances and the America’s Final Line of Protection Fb web page, that are a part of a community of internet sites and social media pages that describes its output as being humorous and satirical in nature.
The introduction on the Fb account’s writer web page reads: “The flagship of the ALLOD community of trollery. Nothing on this web page is actual.” In the meantime, the “About Us” part of Dunning-Kruger Instances states, “Every thing on this web site is fiction.”
The fictional story about Nugent unfold as restoration efforts continued within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, which devastated elements of the southeast U.S. Snopes has fact-checked quite a lot of claims associated to the storms, together with reviews that former President Donald Trump donated $25 million to relief efforts, writer Nicholas Sparks predicted Hurricane Helene in a brand new novel and that President Joe Biden said the government would not be providing any further aid to victims.
Snopes has additionally addressed comparable satirical claims created by the America’s Final Line of Protection community up to now, together with the assertions that Child Rock shipped millions of dollars of supplies to areas affected by the hurricanes, that he and Jason Aldean were donating proceeds from a tour to storm victims, and that the Purple Cross said conservatives donate 78% more than liberals.
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