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	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The guy still has no name and is missing." After days of having their senses numbed by a flood of emotionally charged photographs, many people were momentarily tempted to believe that this was just another image of an innocent seconds away from death.
		Even though Tourist Guy only tentatively agreed to speak to the website via an email interview, his photographs are a compelling match to the original.
		It is an image that must have been captured by millions of tourists before and since; when he used his computer to add an image of a plane coming towards him and emailed it to some friends as a "joke", he evidently didn't count on it becoming the catalyst for an truly global phenomenon.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4310346,00.html (1159 words)

	American Tourister Resources & Information - american tourister
		american tourister space american tourister keys savers by space bag For a short while it was claimed that the picture came from a camera found in the debris at Ground Zero, but this proved american tourister 3000 series to american tourister bonneville series be untrue.
		Finally, the plane on the american tourister luggage picture is an American Boeing 757, while american tourister cruise liner the planes that hit the WTC were a Boeing 767s.
		They american tourister luggage company included the tourist present at the sinking american tourister of the RMS Titanic, at the assassination of John F. american tourister gear Kennedy and at the Hindenburg disaster.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-A---Ba/American-Tourister.html (627 words)

	Tourist guy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tourist guy, supposedly standing on the balcony of the World Trade Center moments before his death.
		Tourist Guy at the seizure of Elián González
		They included the tourist present at the sinking of the RMS Titanic, at the John F. Kennedy assassination, the destruction of Air France Flight 4590 and at the Hindenburg disaster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tourist_guy (556 words)

	vanderzande.com » nerd cult » tourist guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hij kreeg de naam Tourist Guy en zijn gezicht dook op in talloze andere bewerkte foto's.
		Tourist Guy was zogenaamd getuige geweest van elke grote ramp in de wereldgeschiedenis, naar zijn voorbeeld Bert is Evil.
		Tourist Guy zou in december de 2001 Political Dot-Comedy Awards van About.com winnen die geheel in het teken stond van de 9-11 satire.
	www.vanderzande.com /nerdcult/touristguy.html (149 words)

	TouristGuy.com News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Back to business, I still have a whole bunch of tourist guy pics that have been submitted and were not put on the website for one reason or another.
		Considering the popularity of the Tourist Guy, especially over in Brasil I would think it is a very lucrative deal and he is going to make lots of money on it.
		According to a Brazilian newspaper article this gentleman by the name of "Roberto" claims to be the tourist guy.
	www.bassjammer.com /bloodclot/touristguy/news.html (2491 words)

	Wired News: He's the Real Tourist Guy
		The Tourist Guy, or "Tourist of Death," is a 25-year-old Hungarian man called Peter.
		Websites dedicated to the meme, like Tourist Guy, Tourist of Death and WTC Tourist, began collecting the pictures and have been adding to their galleries daily.
		Despite a close resemblance to the Tourist Guy, Penteado was always at a loss to explain how his face was put atop the doomed tower.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,48397,00.html (864 words)

	The Tourist Guy Biography (Internet Celebrity/Fraud) — Infoplease.com
		The Tourist Guy appeared in a faked photo spread by e-mail shortly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
		In the photo the unsuspecting tourist, in a stocking cap and backpack, appears to be standing on a World Trade Center observation deck as a jetliner crashes into the building.
		The photo was quickly debunked, but just as quickly became an Internet fad: other doctored photos appeared showing the Tourist Guy at the explosion of the Hindenberg, the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and other famous events.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/touristguy.html (174 words)

	PCReview: The accidental tourist / December 2001
		On the heels of the September 11 attacks comes an urban legend in the form of a photograph purportedly taken as one of the planes was about to plunge into the World Trade Centre.
		he picture shows a man _ later dubbed the "tourist guy" _ dressed in an anorak, woollen hat and carrying a daypack on one shoulder, calmly posing while the plane appears on the brink of impact.
		His photographs appear to be a much more persuasive match and were published on Wired.com in their original format with the date on one of the related pictures reading "11 28 97" [November 28 1997].
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /pc/2001/12/tourist.htm (557 words)

	The Final WTC Tourist Photo? - BreakTheChain.org
		A photo from a camera with pictures that had been taken on the trade building of a tourist and the plane is heading behind him to hit the building.
		There has been some contention as to the identity of the now infamous "Tourist Guy." A Brazilian businessman initially took credit/blame for the creation and quickly got a lot of attention, but it was this attention that prompted the real "tourist guy" to step forward.
		According to Wired.com, the real "guy" is a 25-year old Hungarian who wishes to be known only as "Peter" to avoid the attention his Brazilian counterpart received.
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/wtctourist.html (579 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (The Accidental Tourist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		was warm and sunny, not the type of day on which a tourist would have been decked out in a winter coat and hat.
		José Roberto Penteado from Campinas, Sao Paulo, stepped forward and claimed that his face was used for the "Accidental Tourist" photo, but his claim later proved to be rather dubious.
		Tourist Guy" crown by supplying the original photograph of himself (and other similar snapshots from the same session) and revealing that he himself had created the infamous "Accidental Tourist" image.
	www.snopes.com /rumors/crash.htm (610 words)

	Overheard in New York \| The Trainables Take Manhattan
		Tourist mom: Well, the sticker there next to the door says this is the 2029 train, find that on the map--
		NY guy: This is the R train, and that is a bus map.
		Tourist guy: No, they said to take it two stops, we've only gone one.
	www.overheardinnewyork.com /archives/002138.html (139 words)

	Tourist Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perhaps the source of the fascination with it (besides its sensational subject matter) was that it counterposed a scene of such innocence (a tourist posing for a holiday snapshot) with a scene of such horror (the hijacked plane approaching from behind).
		The picture also spoke to the surprise nature of the attack (the tourist's back is turned, and he seems unaware of the fate that is soon to engulf him).
		Two of them are shown below: Tourist Guy being approached by the StayPuff Marshmallow Man (a reference to the movie Ghostbusters), and Tourist Guy joined by Super Greg (a hoax character created by the Fallon advertising agency as part of a 'viral' marketing campaign for Lee Jeans).
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /photos/wtcphoto.html (494 words)

	antwon.com - "The Tourist Guy Is A Total Sham" by Cats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some may think that I am simply resentful towards the tourist guy because he is the latest new entity to be heralded so highly, making the memories of my own moment in the sun that much more distant; this is not the case.
		Some may think that I am resentful towards the tourist guy because he is "undeserving" of the fame or because is riding the wave of success upon the backs of others; this is also blatantly untrue.
		In closing: the tourist guy has no right to be an Internet celebrity, and I heartily encourage all those who read this to not further senselessly spread images of his likeness.
	www.antwon.com /?d=touristguy (780 words)

	Wired News: 'Tourist Guy': Is He or Isn't He?
		There's the tourist guy with the doomed USS Cole and at the scene of the Zeppelin crash.
		A raccoon mounts the world's dumbest dog, and the tourist guy is there watching.
		Websites dedicated to the meme, like Tourist Guy and Tourist of Death, began collecting the pictures and have been adding to their galleries daily.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,48225,00.html (631 words)

	The Big Story: The accidental tourist guy
		The story that preceded the picture was that the photo had been downloaded from a digital camera found in the WTC rubble.
		The Net, as it often does, picked up the meme and ran with it, inserting the man who came to be known as "Tourist Guy" into other familiar disasters.
		Tourist Guy had been found, very much alive.
	thebigstory.org /off/off-tourist.html (292 words)

	Wired News: The Best Internet Spoofs
		Tourist Guy: Soon after 9/11, a picture circulated through e-mail of a guy on top of the World Trade Center.
		The date stamp was 9/11/01, and in the background a plane was seen hurtling toward him.
		Fark ran a Photoshop contest to place Tourist Guy at the scene of other disasters in history, many of which you can see at the Tourist of Death website.
	wiredblogs.tripod.com /internetspoofs/index.album?i=6 (126 words)

	The 2+2 Forums: 2-4 decision
		After second guy called, and first guy tossed hand in face down, dealer took first guy's cards and put them on top of the muck.
		Second guy has a less than obvious semi-splashed-the-pot $4 call, and judging from what I saw, it was quite likely his card may have been concealed (it's very common for low limit players to conceal their cards, they don't know any better).
		Now typically, if the floor comes over to a table and there's only one guy with a live hand, and the other is properly mucked and gone, the decision will almost always be to push the pot to the guy with the live hand.
	forumserver.twoplustwo.com /showflat.php?Number=3415477 (1097 words)

	Unimaginable terror, unthinkable tackiness Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		But the Tourist Guy (aka the Tourist of Death) became a cult figure, eventually "appearing" in photos of dozens of other historic events: in JFK's limo, in the water near the sinking Titanic, in front of the burning Hindenburg.
		A Brazilian man surfaced and claimed he was the Tourist Guy, and Volkswagen talked to him about doing an advertisement before coming to its senses.
		He was a 25-year-old from Budapest named Peter Guzli, who had taken a photo of himself on the viewing deck in 1997 and had digitally added the plane before sending the pic to a few friends as a joke, never considering that it would become an international phenomenon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20020909/ai_n12476380 (868 words)

	Tourist Guy Identified!!!
		The tourist was found by our news article in Campinas, is the trader Jose Combed Robert, 41 years, a common person who if became celebrity after having its face circulating for the whole world never saw Web.
		The tourist was found by our report in Campinas, and is the trader Jose Roberto Penteado, 41 years old, a common person who became famous after having his face travel through the world via the web.
		On Tourist Guy someone from Brazil commented that Roberto appeared on a very popular TV show and was able to provide proof.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/567123/posts (1940 words)

	Foogle Business - Tourist Guy Picture - Sahara Supposition - Tourist Guy Syndrome - World Trade Center - Spoof WTC ...
		This is the view that the Tourist Guy saw as he looked over the railings of the WTC observations point.
		And José was just some innocuous tourist guy having his picture taken quite innocently, oblivious of what destruction lied ahead of him, and a Nation, and a World.
		He is just another tourist guy, one of the many millions who before him, visited the WTC, and he is probably thinking what a lovely day it is, and how fortunate he is to be a Brazilian, and visiting one of the greatest landmarks in one of the greatest cities on Earth.
	www.thesahara.net /touristguysyndrome.htm (2058 words)

	Atop WTC Seconds Before . . . Tourist Photo 9-11-01
		But, wait till you see the other places this guy has been.
		Photo taken by a tourist atop the World Trade Center seconds before....
		His camera was found in the rubble; he has not yet been found.
	www.greaterthings.com /News/911/Tourist (177 words)

	Tourist of Death
		As time passed, more and more copycats appeared, varying in their content, however always including the tourist's body or face.
		Originally, he was referred to as "The WTC tourist" or "The guy on the roof of WTC", which are not so easily recognizable.
		People began inventing their own names such as "Yuri" (perhaps because he looks Russian), and most recently, "Waldo", from the book series "Where's Waldo?", in which users are presented with a picture of a scenario and have to find where a character named "Waldo" lay hidden.
	www.touristofdeath.com (601 words)

	WTC Tourist AKA Waldo
		It was later proved to be a fake, but some people believed it, thus spreading it around the whole world.
		People now have made there own photos inserting the WTC Tourist Guy, or Waldo named after the American version of the Where's Wally series of books.
		Below is the truth of who this guy really is, and a couple of galleries with pictures of Waldo in other backgrounds.
	www.angelfire.com /scary/wtctourist (99 words)

	CRAZY EDDIE - I AM JUST INSANE
		It was suppose to be a photograph which captured an unlucky tourist posing on the observation deck of a World Trade Center tower seconds before a hijacked airliner smashed into the building.
		The man in the photo became known as the Tourist Guy.
		Web surfers quickly turned the Tourist Guy into the Forrest Gump of the Internet, placing him at the scene of major, minor and just plain inane events in history.
	www.crazyeddie.org /tourist.htm (140 words)

	Wacky Tourist Guy popping up all over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That has been a burning question ever since a doctored photo showing an unsuspecting tourist standing on an observation deck at the World Trade Center, with a plane headed toward his back, started making its way around the Net shortly after Sept. 11.
		Netizens copied the photo and continued doctoring it, placing the mysterious tourist wearing glasses and a fl knit cap on the moon with astronaut Neil Armstrong; at the crash of the Hindenburg; even at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
		Earlier this month, a Brazilian businessman stepped forward to claim he was the Guy and that he had the photos to prove it.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001/11/20/ebrief.htm (424 words)

	Posts tagged with touristguy \| MetaFilter
		The Tourist Guy found (for real this time).
		Two months and 10,000 remixes later, a Hungarian man has stepped forward and this photo leaves little doubt.
		Incidentally, it turns out the Brazilian guy was a fraud after all.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/touristguy (47 words)

	carnatic.com > Karmasaya : Full Text Search Results : Guy
		Don't be "the guy in the room." Don't be the guy coding in the dark office emerging only to buy cola.
		The guy in the room is out of touch, out of sight, and out of control and has no place in an open, collaborative environment.
		It still is. Even if the founder is a dead white guy on the wall of the lobby, the company's going to keep doing whatever that guy was all about.
	www.carnatic.com /karmasaya/index.php?full=Guy (435 words)

	Techdirt: Tourist Guy Unveiled
		Many people seemed to believe that he was a Brazilian guy who had a striking resemblance to the tourist guy.
		The Brazilian guy even started to say it was him, and got quite a bit of hype for himself.
		However, now a Hungarian man is claiming that he is the real tourist guy, but wants to remain anonymous - as he has no desire to become the next Mahir.
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20011120/082247.shtml (290 words)

	Identity of "WTC tourist" revealed - SternFanNetwork
		But now it's clear he is not the guy.
		The tourist guy was a pretty hilarious fad, condsidering the circumstances.
		I thought that guy was Woody Harrelson for the longest time..
	www.sternfannetwork.com /forum/showthread.php?threadid=6677 (786 words)

	Love 'Tron'? Maybe this man is a suitable suitor
		As popular as Tron Guy is, he isn't the first luminary to spring forth in the world of Internet Fads.
		He follows a path blazed by dancing hamsters and dancing babies, countless "blow to the groin" video clips and creepy Peter Pan devotees.
		The Tourist Guy was seen at the crash of Hindenburg, at Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, even at the Lincoln assassination.
	www.austin360.com /movies/content/movies/aasstories/2004_september/tronguy_09-10-04.html (1194 words)

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