Talk:Garry Hoy

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I would so love to expand on this, but it's so hard to find information on him. --Sniper joe 23:41, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Birth and Age

I've noticed that while this article says Hoy was 39 years old at the time of the stunt, the snopes.com article linked to by this article says he was 38 years old. I did a google search and found that the web is very divided on this topic.

[edit] 38

  • Snopes.com
  • dano.diaryland.com
  • ABC News
  • Toronto Star (Saturday, July 10, 1993, p. A4) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.28.255.222 (talk) 01:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 39

  • Toronto Star (Monday, July 12, 1993, p. A6)
  • Wikipedia
  • Darwin Awards
  • Answers.com
  • Tens and tens of websites that copy-pasted from each other, since they all have the same wording.


Snopes.com is supposed to be credible, so they are pretty much all the weight on the "38" side of the argument. However, "39" looks like a better choice. Still, it would be good to know for sure.--Methegreat 00:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


-- I would say the Toronto Star article on Mon. July 12th would be the most accurate - because their information would have come from the official police report about the incident - correcting any mis-information or initial errors about the incident. Snopes would most likely relied on the Toronto Star Sat. copy, and not the Monday edition for their source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themepark (talk • contribs) 02:50, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources style

Can anyone fix this? There aren't online archives for either of these papers, and since I live in Argentina, I can't go looking for the print versions and citing them approprietly per WP:Citing sources/example style#Newspaper/magazine articles (or online periodicals). --W2bh (talk) 15:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)