Escape From Alcatraz. I have to admit to being a fan of Escape from Alcatraz. That’s just one cool movie. So it was with no small amount of interest that I watched this myth. In it, Adam and Jamie attempted to re-create the events surrounding the actual escape from Alcatraz, on which the movie was based.
They first went into a cell and crawled through into the maintenance tunnel. Apparently living on fast food isn’t really helpful. They could barely fit. But they did make it. Then they had some trouble securing actual rubber raincoats, such as those used to make the rafts. But those too were eventually found. Then they made some versions simlar to those that were saved in the prison archives (they couldn’t actually touch one piece that is saved for fear it would fall apart, but they could look at it closely). The rafts they produced didn’t look like the ones in the movie, but it certainly worked.
While the boys made a bunch of noise, it turns out that their escape worked great. The only difference is that they didn’t head for Angel Island, but instead used the currents to head towards the Marin Headlands, near the Golden Gate Bridge footing. Sure enough, after a bit of rowing to get in the current, they make it without much trouble. You have to think that prisoners in better shape than Adam and Jamie wouldn’t have had much trouble at all – especially if the officials were looking in the other direction. Confirmed.
Does A Duck’s Quack Echo? This myth is a little bizarre (to me), as frankly I’m wondering who cares. But nonetheless, apparently the thinking is that duck’s quacks do not echo. So after some maneuvering, the ducks… don’t quack at all. So they try again… and they don’t really quack. Then they quack and you can’t tell them apart (there were two ducks).
Then after some more work, it seems that the problem is that the duck’s quack does echo, but rather than a normal echo, the echo looks a lot like the first quack, just alot quieter. Funny, I thought that’s what echos were in the first place. Maybe that’s why I’m not an acoustic engineer. In any case, the quacks do echo. Busted.
Mind Control Chips. Apparently if you donate blood, you get a mind control chip implanted in you. Since Mind Control overall was pretty well busted, I’m not sure it really matters much, but I guess people are concerned just in case. So after playing with a stud finder, and finding no studs on themselves, they do find a microchip after implantation in a dog. The boys give blood, and find no chips. Or perhaps the people doing so just knew they were coming and didn’t do it. Busted. For now, anyway. You conspiracy theorists better still keep your eyes open.
