Lee Fancourt wrote:
Tinfoil Hat wrote:I prefer the simpler explanation that the sponsors are just ignorant and stupid rather than orchestrating a mastermind plan. Have you been abducted by aliens who anal probed you?
Terrie and David are ignorant and stupid.
People who have set up companies normally have a degree of intelligence. Plus there has to be something in it for THEM.
Being a company involved in a world record brings in publicity.
Hence it is POSSIBLE if not certain SOME of the sponsors knew he had planned to fake it all, that he was clearly going to do until rumbled
That seems reasonable to me, it's a web of intrigue, the question is who initiated the whole thing and with input from whom, seems reasonable to suggest Dave and Terrie alone don't have the expertise to do it.
Then the question is did some of those assisting know that Dave was a complete running fraud incapable of doing what he said he'd done and incapable of doing what he intended to do? The photographer seems to have been on hand for absolutely everything, so he must have known.
Another question is what happened to the money and who spent what and on what?, not unreasonable questions to ask and no conspiracy theory involved.
FFS, it's a legitimate charity so why wouldn't people want to know?