Not the first year there has been a photograph of the young Tyler Kerke, who allegedly became a victim of a tragic mistake. We checked whether this story corresponds to reality.

According to a replicated text, in 1985, 13-year-old Tyler Kerk starred in an advertisement for Nutella chocolate pasta. At the end of the main part of the filming, the advertisers of fun for the sake of deciding to capture the boy with an apple with an arrow on his head. Due to the mistake of the photographer, the arrow flew out of the bow and hit the child directly on the forehead. The photographer and involuntary killer Jason Aderli was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

In different years, this story in Russian bypassed such social networks and a blog-platform as Facebook, "VKontakte","Classmates" And "Living magazine". In Telegram it was published by channels "Iron facts"(311,000 views),"Che, history"(300,000),"Leonardo Davinchik"(145 000), Black Pirate (68,000), "Intimology"(66 000),"Business facts"(64,000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(63,000).

The first thing that confuses in connection with this story is its almost complete absence in sources in other languages except Russian. It can be assumed that some facts (for example, the name of the company who removed the company) came to us in distorted form, but the deliberate accuracy of other details (year of shooting, rare names of the photographer and its victim) practically excludes this version.

Another question raises an unexpectedly long term of imprisonment. Judging by the names of the defendants, history takes place in an English -speaking country. In the USA for bars for 35 years recently Sent a hired killer, but for the murder by negligence of American or British Laws, even in the presence of aggravating circumstances, face a period of several times less than the mentioned.

Finally, searching on the Internet brings unexpected results. According to "Archive of creative advertising", Before us is not a random frame, but a specially created advertising poster. It was demonstrated in May 2004 in Denmark as part of the next film festival called "VideoMarathon". The task of the contestants was to shoot and mount the film on a given topic in 48 hours. Judging by the name of the photograph, we have a variation on the topic of legend about Wilhelme Tele - The Swiss national hero, who struck an apple, lying on the head of his young son with a well -aimed shot from a bow. Another poster from the same festival was Dedicated Harry Potter.

The description says that the author of the photograph is the Dange of Michael Langhoff. Indeed, this picture can be seen in the gallery on its official site. In the correspondence with the “verified” the photographer confirmed that the poster to the “Video Marathon” was based on the history of William Tele and not a single person was affected.

Who came up with the story of the boy Tyler Kerke, taking as a basis an advertising poster is not known for certain. However, back in the early 2010s, this bike was actively walking along the rune, in particular in LJ. And today, many readers continue to believe her.

Photo on the cover: Michael Langhoff