The dataloss heavily affected this thread. Any kiwis with backups of the documents that Chris King posted, please post them as soon as you can.
On Thursday evening, Chris King began posting in this thread. He spent a couple of hours dodging questions and engaging in a routine that was clearly designed to make people pity him. He claimed to be posting from a hospital He was verified by a moderator and was soon asked to post proof of his claim. He posted two pieces of evidence. The first was four or five different pictures taken with his iPhone of his computer screen showing the medical history page that has gone around. The second was a video of him logging in to the page on his laptop.
This was considered confirmation that his medical records were legitimate until it was pointed out by a Kiwi (I forgot who, please remind me and I will edit it in) that the GPS information embedeed in the metadata of the photographs showed that they were taken at his home. The pictures all had slightly different GPS coordinates implying that instead of being one set of saved coordinates, that they were being updated live as he was taking them. The video and pictures were absolutely taken from his home.
I'm working on reconstructing it.
Fortunately, someone seems to have
archived some of this thread last night. Thank you to whoever did it. More pages may be retrievable from cached Google results if they got indexed before KF went down.
@JSGOTI, I know you commented on what was going on behind the scenes regarding verification of Chris' claims, so maybe you can chime in too.
As far as the photos from the "hospital" go, I've still got archives of the EXIF data of the
first 5 that Chris posted. Here are the coordinates and timestamps.
IMG_1065.JPG
Latitude 40.780719 North
Longitude 75.513825 West
Altitude 196.3535156 m Above Sea Level
Local time 08:58:26 PM
IMG_1066.JPG
Latitude 40.78095 North
Longitude 75.513594 West
Altitude 189.2784091 m Above Sea Level
Local time 09:00:27 PM
IMG_1067.JPG
Latitude 40.78095 North
Longitude 75.513594 West
Altitude 189.2784091 m Above Sea Level
Local time 09:00:52 PM
IMG_1068.JPG
Latitude 40.780889 North
Longitude 75.51365 West
Altitude 192.4455446 m Above Sea Level
Local time 09:01:11 PM
IMG_1069.JPG
Latitude 40.781036 North
Longitude 75.513703 West
Altitude 187.8388158 m Above Sea Level
Local time 09:02:54 PM
He
claimed to be at the hospital at 9:20 PM local time, even though there aren't any LVHN hospitals close enough to his house to make this plausible. The locations in the metadata of his first batch of images all put him within ~+/- 1 second of longitude/latitude (or approximately 100 feet) from the location of Chris' house. The small variations in location show the sort of GPS drift that naturally occurs when someone uses a cellphone's location services indoors.
Then several minutes later he posted two more images after claiming to be in the hospital. The images were archived, but it looks like the thread page where they were posted was not. They are taken from a similarly darkened room where you can't see the background. Here is their EXIF info:
IMG_1071.JPG
archive of actual image
archive of EXIF data
Latitude 40.78095 North
Longitude 75.513633 West
Altitude 189.7643979 m Above Sea Level
Local Time 09:29:07 PM
IMG_1072.JPG
archive of actual image
archive of EXIF data
Latitude 40.781033 North
Longitude 75.513083 West
Altitude 201.8164557 m Above Sea Level
Local Time 09:29:11 PM
Those two pictures are taken from the same location as the first batch, leading me to believe that there was no way Chris was telling the truth about being at the hospital. There was initially some talk about whether Chris' iPhone may have been using old, cached location data from his house when geotagging the seven pictures, but the fact that the longitude, latitude, and altitude vary slightly between pictures seems to rule that out.
If anyone can fish more of the lost posts from Google's cache, please do.
edit: for clarity