April 23, 2008

Trashman's AIDS claims just trash-talk

trashman.gif An American named "Trashman", who sparked global fury by appearing in YouTube clips boasting of deliberately infecting thousands of women with AIDS, has been revealed as a faker. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The masked African-American man claimed to have infected over 1500 women with the deadly HIV virus, but the move was all a desperate effort to garner publicity for his porn sites.

The clips had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times before they were removed from YouTube and many media outlets fell for the ruse, including FOX News. YouTube users were quick to petition to have him kicked off the site.

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