Fifty Interesting and Ridiculous Things about the Christchurch Facebook Video!

Fifty Interesting and Ridiculous Things about the Christchurch Facebook Video! (QRV)

submitted 5.8 years ago by 3103457?

For anyone who isn't sure the video is fake, please download it and watch it along with my notes. Trust me you will be laughing at it.

For reference my copy of the video was 16:55 in length and you can get it from many places.

The first weird thing is that the resolution of this video is really really low. Why will a shooter spend so much money on weapons and an elaborate plan to stream it, and then he finds the worst video camera in the world to stream it? You would have to be a serious tech enthusiast to go out and find an obscure camera that is this bad, or to find a way to modify the settings to make it this shitty.

The second weird thing is that EVERY SINGLE VICTIM is covering his face or turning away from the camera. If they do face the camera then they are at least 10 feet away and this shitty camera can't see anything.

6:26 A man and woman on the sidewalk look directly at the shooter without running or saying anything, despite that he's carrying two long barreled weapons.

6:28 A car in the park has it's rear door open. (Open throughout the video). It's just a little weird.

6:39
First shots of the video. This shotgun creates a lot of smoke and not much noise. A bit weird?

6:45 The first victim dies after pulling his shirt up over his head, without bleeding.

Also, the main doors to the mosque are propped open. I don't know if that's normal but in America people tend to keep doors closed so bugs or rodents don't walk in.

6:46
Man who has been shot moans and crawls away. Probably the only victim who makes noise the whole video. He does not leave a pool of blood behind him despite army-crawling two yards.

(Note -some claim that this man changes his shoes but it appears that he is wearing blue shoes with red soles so they appear different colors from different sides.)

6:49 Shooter comes to a doorway and a person decides to get up and run for the exit. (10 seconds of gunshots and people dying in the doorway and only now the idea comes into his head to get off his ass?? -- no he waits to run so that there is video of a person running.)

6:53 There is a painted ammunition magazine at the midpoint of the hallway on the left side. The shooter points his strobe light directly at it and looks at it. How helpful for the mosque to leave loaded magazines in their hallways! And we will see this magazine again later as the shooter runs out of ammo and decides to use it. I guess the shooter had an inside man who left ammo around for him to pick up, and none of the other worshippers thought it was strange or picked it up? Just see a loaded magazine in your mosque on the ground? -- leave it there since it's obviously supposed to be there and it's not strange at all.

Seriously though, that was probably a "WTF!" moment for him, like oh crap that isn't supposed to be there I'm gonna have to improvise.

6:53-7
Blue shirt person gets shot and goes down. Later in the video, this person's head produces the only realistic splatter effects but for now he is bloodless like everyone else. Notice that the only shots fired to the left of the room were at this person. Then the shooter enters and turns to the right.

I will refer to the sides of this room as left-hand and right-hand sides from the entrance, regardless which direction the shooter turns.

6:58.
a) After 20 seconds of gunfire since 6:38, the group has decided to huddle in the corner like they are calling a play in football. Nobody is screaming, people aren't running. They aren't exiting through the doorway that they are huddled next to. (We will see that doorway later).

b) We have two people, one in each room, just standing looking at the wall like they are reading a bulletin board or looking for a book on a bookshelf.

c) When the shooter opens fire again, the man on the right decides running is a good idea (20 seconds into the fight!).

d) The man on the left just stands there confused so the shooter keeps shooting while craning his neck/camera around behind him, allowing the man to change his position off camera.

6:59 We get the first glimpse of the people on the "left-hand side" of the main room but I'll come back to them later. There is a man lying on his belly with his head under the chairs despite the fact no shots have been fired over here. He is angled toward the entryway so you can't say he was shot and ran away and fell, unless he decided to do a dying 180 degree turn and then crawl his head under the chair.

We also see the people on this side of the room have also decided to do a football huddle, and to quietly crouch without screaming or trying to break the window they are leaning against..

7:00 Shooter turns the camera back and the man standing out of place has managed to get back into the huddle where he is supposed to be (not dead on the ground).

7:04.
A man tries to run past the shooter. Some will say this man was trying to attack the shooter, but if you slow it down you will see that his trajectory was never at him, rather his momentum was always carrying him to the shooter's left. Also the man began a dive down and to the left before he was shot at.

It looks like the shots would have grazed the left side of that man's body but there is not blood splatter, in the air or on the wall right behind him. No visible bullet holes in the wall that is shot pointblank several times.

The shooter keeps firing while falling down. We get a frame of the man on the ground holding his hands over his face to either protect his identity or protect his eyes from the special effects. No screaming, shouting, nothing. I think if you got shot on the left side of your body you might put your hands there instead of on your face.

7:07 The shooter drops a magazine clip during the fall, next to the main room. I'm pointing this out so that we can keep track of the three clips which are on the ground in the hallway at some point. So now we have this one by the main room and the one that was there before the shooting started, which we saw at 6:53.

7:08 As the shooter backs away, the tackling man is lying on his left side with his hands still covering his face. Looks like a soccer player trying to draw a foul. (If you're dead then you will not still be tensing your muscles and holding your hand to your face -- your arm will fall to the ground. If you're alive then you will be moving or screaming or something. No, he's just quietly contemplating life with his hands on his face.)

The shooter walks toward the mosque entrance but turns around away from the original misplaced magazine so we can't see it.

7:11 Better look at the earlier victims by the entrance and still no blood pools formed.

7:14.
Shooter reloads from a magazing on his body. Two objects fall from his to the ground -- one is apparently the empty magazine clip from his rifle. He also throws down something else. So there are now three magazines on the ground in the hallway: an empty one by the entrance/crawling body, a loaded one in the middle which was there before he entered, and a loaded one by the tackler.

As he looks up toward the main room, we again see the original preplaced magazine still lying there by the left wall.

7:16 He walks by the out-of-place clip and we can see it close up again, directly under the bulletin board.

7:19 He re-enters the room and fires his first shots toward the left side of the room. Still we see the man with his head under the chairs, who was dead before ever being shot. 40 seconds into the shooting and the people over there still haven't got it into their brains to run or scream or do anything but a football huddle against a window. I hope they are not so stupid that they forget to breathe!

7:22 He looks away toward the center of the room and you can see those are doors opposite the entryway and that the people in that room could have made a run in that direction also but they didn't.

7:28-32 He drops the expended clip in the center of the room, then walks over to the tackler and picks up the first magazine he dropped and loads it.

7:48 During a break in the shooting we for the first time hear some wailing sounds, or maybe some mosque music? It's been completely silent up until now.

He clears a jam and reloads with the same magazine (they are two which are taped together).

8:10-4 One of the people in the right-hand huddle suddenly remembers he has legs. For some reason this runner left by the main exit despite the fact there is a closer and safer one. (The safe exit which was used by the first runner at 6:49). The shooter fires three rounds toward the main entrance and we will see later that he hit not only the runner, but actually two people went down. (Two kills in three rounds at that distance -- amazing!)

8:17 Shooter walks toward the right side of the room and reveals some people sitting on the chair behind a pillar coming out of the wall. It looks like a lady in a turqoise shirt on her knees facing the wall. She is still upright and he shoots her but she doesn't scream or fall or anything, just a very stoic lady who receives gunshots with determination and grit.

It's a bit odd that she's upright, so the shooter points his head down and removes her from the frame, then puts more bullets into the pile of bodies.

At 8:18 we first see there was an open doorway that the group of people could have run out of this whole time. We'll get a better view of that later.

At the character limit; I will continue in the comments.

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17531205? 5.7 years ago

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17485250? 5.7 years ago

weren't there windows there? I would have taken a chair and thrown it through the glass to jump, crawl and try to survive. Your recap is fantastic !

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17470461? 5.8 years ago

At 8:09 to 8:14 what is the weird light on the carpet? Could it be some sort of video processing error? It looks strange - it can't be the strobe on the gun.

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17470037? 5.8 years ago

Brilliant analysis

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17469628? 5.8 years ago

A for the effort

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17469476? 5.8 years ago

Lol, I made similar notes. Not as detailed as yours but here we go anyway...

The “shooting” was a HOAX. Use critical thinking and watch the video objectively.

1) Why doesn’t he shoot anyone outside the mosque as he enters?

A shill says: “because the mosque was his target!!!”

I say: the strobe gun was loaded with blanks or “simunition” and random passers by didn’t know that. Only those inside the mosque did, and that was the entire purpose of using the strobe on that gun — as a visual confirmation to the actors inside that this gun is the “blanks” gun.

2) Why were there piles of bodies in the corners of the room as soon as he entered? Why did none of those huddled bodies try to escape through the doorways at the same corners of the room?

A shill says: “because they were terrified!!!”

I say: it was a movie set, and this “shooting” was a movie with stage props and lots of fake bodies, or mannequins.

3) Why did he spend so long shooting at nothing outside the mosque? Why did he return to his car to switch weapons?

A shill says: “because he was crazy!!! to reload!!!”

I say: to give the actors a chance to be checked by medical crew, and to allow sufficient time to replace certain actors with mannequins for the “coup de grace” shots for the final scene.

4) Why did he switch weapons?

A shill says: “because he was a crazy white supremacist with too many guns!!!”

I say: the second AR was loaded with actual projectiles to increase “realism” for the final scene. Notice the change in sound, and how much more carefully he aims it.

5) Why did some bodies produce a bloody mist and others did not?

A shill says: “because In real life that’s what happens, I should know, I am an expert!!!”

I say: blood packs were either not installed on every mannequin for budget reasons, or some of them failed to discharge when shot.

6) Why were the lady’s shoes on the sidewalk as he leaves the mosque?

A shill says: “because she was just shot!!!”

I say: this is a CLASSIC hoax marker. Shoes seem to be symbolic to the organisers of these events. Shoes off can be found at almost every “mass shooting” and “terror” event. Look it up!

7) Why did the first couple of shotgun rounds in the car appear to do nothing to the car’s windshield despite shooting straight through it?

A shill says: “because the video is too poor quality to see the damage!!!”

I say: those shotgun shells were also “simunition” or similar stage prop ammunition. Strong enough to sometime damage windows at point blank range (especially weaker side glass), but not all of the time.

8) Why was the video such poor quality?

A shill says: “because he live streamed it!!!!”

I say: to make it harder to analyse after the event.

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17467700? 5.8 years ago

Just a note re shoes - shoes are not worn inside a mosque

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17469854? 5.8 years ago

Multi colored socks got it.

Kinda makes sense with their multi flag flag

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17467451? 5.8 years ago

If I saw a mass shooting like this in a movie, I'd be wanting my ticket money back. Looked pretty fake to me.

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17467139? 5.8 years ago

Had a question in my mind while watching, but have only had a chance to watch it one time and not go back and investigate.

How many bullets does the clip hold? How many shots were fired from each clip? How many empty chamber trigger pulls were there? I kept thinking the guy was acting like he was using a new weapon in a video game. One time looking like he wasn't sure about reloading it. I could see that if he was excited, breathing hard, adrenaline and heart pumping, but he just seamed like it was a training walk through.

When he left, I was waiting for the thump thump of running over a body, or a bump from his camera. I wanted to watch it again because I remember thinking, did he miss it???

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17466808? 5.8 years ago

And this is why they are trying to pull the video off the net.

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17466489? 5.8 years ago

Whether this is real or not, terrorist act or hoax, done by Q or the cabal or just a random organic occurrence, killing people isn't the answer. Unfortunately this is going to spawn a bunch of reactionary attacks from people all over the world. Sad for it to come to this. If Q isn't able to cut down the bad guys it was always going to end badly. White people have a right to exist in their countries but we have to minimize the loss of life. You can't massacre people to get your point across. This is why fascist policy is terrible

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17466486? 5.8 years ago

Be warned do not DL this video in au nz or probably UK or you could go to jail

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17467757? 5.8 years ago

Why? What crime would be bring committed?

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17466157? 5.8 years ago

Another thing I noticed at the beginning as he walks toward the entrance there are 2 people I think talking in the front yard, and someone else walking closer to a house. Why did he not shoot at them? Also they did not run away from the guy with 2 long weapons.

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17466340? 5.8 years ago

LOL that is literally my first note.

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17465391? 5.8 years ago

Did you look into the somgs that were playing?

Serbia Strong by Razni Ivodjaci

1777 The British Grenadiers March

Fire by Arthur Brown. Listen to the lyrics on this one. This somg starts right as he gets to his vehicle to drive away. Very strange timing...

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17464957? 5.8 years ago

Continued.

8:33 He picks up the pre-placed magazine off the ground and loads it! What a coincidence that the mosque not only has ammunition on the floor of their building, and that it's painted with white paint in the same style as the shooter's weapon, but that it is also the same caliber to fit properly into his weapon! Praise be allah.

8:44 We see that when he hit the runner from 8:10, he also managed to hit someone in blue jeans who stumbled to the side of the hallway and collapsed bloodlessly in the corner.

8:45 That runner from 8:10 went down in the open doorways right next to the first victim. However the runner is actually bleeding! After shooting fifty people, we finally have a bleeder!

8:57 Empties a clip down the sidewalk. People have pointed out that the expended cartidges disappear. I will say that it is grainy video and that small moving objects may get lost into artifacts, but seriously some of those rounds are not moving that fast and they actually disappear in thin air inches from the camera. Most obviously when he turns around and fires three rounds in the other direction.

9:30 He goes to his car and takes his strapped rifle off over his head. Even though he is right next to the car's storage and could put the rifle back into his car, he throws it on the ground for no reason.

9:55 Shooter has walked past the main entrance to a second drive entrance. I didn't mention earlier that there is an orange cone on the street at the main entrance to stop cars from pulling in. This second drive also appears to be blocked, by a square-shaped sign. Maybe it says "lot full" on the other side? Just an interesting detail.

10:04 We also see that the carpark is indeed completely full even up to cars parked in the entrance gate that would block other cars from being able to drive through if they wanted to. Street views also show every single parking spot is taken so if someone wanted to stop by they would have a hell of a time finding parking within a half mile. (The shooter parked in the side alley apparently illegally.)

Honestly with this many cars I think there weren't that many people.

10:32 He re-enters the mosque and passes again the one body that actually bleeds. (How convenient that the bleeder went down at a distance and off camera?)

10:35-42 He walks back in the hallway while pointedly aiming the camera at each dead body for maximum cinematographic effect, even turning around and walking backwards to accomplish this.

10:42 We see the tackler has decided to get out of his left-side hands-on-face position, and reorient to a face-up resting pose.

10:54 The shooter walks toward the right-hand body pile firing bullets into the inanimate pile. The man in blue jeans at the front of the pile is lying on his back, hands resting on his belly, and legs outstretched with his left foot resting on top of his right foot.

If you see it you will know that this is a position in which a person will lie down and rest. You would never fall and die with your legs straight and crossed, feet pointing to the ceiling. There is an apparent pool of blood by this mans head and thats it for the whole cadaver pile.

10:56 As he shoots the body pile, there is a man in grey lying on his left side, with his right arm outstretched towards the camera. The noise/air blast from the rifle startles him and he pulls his right arm down closer to his leg, then re-freezes like he's supposed to.

10:59 A shot to the head blows the man's hat off like in an old western. Mythbusters actually did this myth and no, bullets do not make your hat fly off like that. Especially without splattering your brains all over the wall.

11:00-11:02 The camera pans across an open doorway. The entire mass of people could have run out of that door this whole freakin time! They weren't trapped at all! It's just an entryway without even a door on it to close! Maybe instead of banning guns we can teach moslems how to walk through doors?

11:19 Just after reloading, shooter hits the original main-room casualty (blue shirt guy) in the head and we get a fantastic blood-splatter out the other side -- the first decent effect of this whole movie. However the man's head is still perfectly intact on the near side, somehow the bullet just passed through the hat and skull leaving it intact then blowing a huge amount of blood out of the far side.

Of all the bodies in this room, blue shirt guy is probably the most obviously dead one since he shot him about twenty times already. I guess he just was frustrated that the man's body was still intact and was hoping the twenty-first shot would be the lucky one to create some gore?

11:22 As the shooter walks to the left side of the room, we see a man sitting up against the pillar for the first time. Somehow he is dead even though the shooter never saw him before or knew to shoot at him. Maybe shots flew threw the wall but the walls appear to be perfectly clean and undamaged. The man gets shot and slumps forward a bit but doesn't scream.

11:25 We see the window in that corner that the huddle of people could have broken and escaped out of if they weren't so sleepy that they decided to nap instead. No more blood splatters so I guess it was just the one magical bloody bullet at the top of the magazine. We do see movement from the shots like maybe an air blast or a lightweight projectile that doesn't pierce the skin.

11:48 As he exits the mosque a second time, he fires at some people who are exiting a side-gate of the fence enclosing the grounds. They disappear out of view.

11:50 The orange cone, in the entry, which was still standing the second time he entered the mosque, is now lying down in the opposite direction of traffic. If a passing car accidentally hit it, you would expect it to lie the other way. Of course it could have tumbled. Just an interesting continuity issue.

11:53 He walks out and we see that one of those escapers was hit and is on the ground. (She managed to run about four yards with no blood trail and lie down in a very strategic location, as we will see later.) He finishes her off from distance.

12:01-03 He walks by the side gate which this lady and the others ran out of. It is in a closed position. I don't think the escapers shut it behind them, so it probably has a spring on it to keep it shut?

12:05 The lady is hit and lying on the ground but without any blood, still even after stumbling while shot and then being finished off from distance.

12:06 Now he shoots her and the air from his blast moves her hair, but we get a blood effect on the arm instead. He fires a second shot which sways both her hair and sleeve but doesn't make any more blood. These are windy bullets! The color of the blood is a bit off at it seems almost orange.

Now we see that she managed to bloodlessly flee from the gate to this very strategic spot in front of the alley so the shooter gets an opportunity to callously drive over her body. Beautiful!

12:50-52 Shooter fires two shotgun rounds through his own windscreen! However the ammo are duds since they don't break the screen or make any noise, just blow a little smoke. I guess he accidentally had it loaded with his fake movie ammo. So he reloads.

13:12 Again fires through his windscreen and it cracks this time because he's got real or semi-real ammunition this time.

13:21 He decides that cracking his windscreen further isn't such a great idea so he drives beside the target and shoots out his passenger side window instead. The bystander, like us, doesn't hear much noise coming from this shotgun and hasn't realized he is in danger. He is just standing or walking normally despite having been shot at three times already.

Besides having a silencer this shotgun also is very smoky. I am not an expert on shotguns and it is many years since I shot one but this is not how I remember them.

<police response> For those wondering about the lack of police, it is about six minutes from his first shot at 6:38 to driving off at 12:30. Depending on when the emergency calls get made and where the police are, it can take some time for them to arrive. So I personally don't find it suspicious that they are not on the scene. However by the time he leaves I would expect police and other emergency vehicles to be coming from all directions sirens blaring. In the four and a half minutes of driving to to the end of the video we don't hear any sirens.