At birthornot.com, Peter and Alisha Arnold, a Apple Valley, MN couple, asks the public whether they should kill their unborn child.
I think it’s a hoax.
Minneapolis/St. Paul’s Star Tribune reports the baby is at 17 weeks.
Today (Nov. 19) is week 46 of the year 2010. 46 minus 17 means the child was conceived no earlier than week 29 of 2010, which starts with July 18.
Here’s the problem: The birthornot.com domain name was purchased on May 17, 2010. That’s week 20 of 2010. They purchased the domain name more than two months before conception!
That doesn’t make sense. I really hope it’s a hoax; the alternative is sick, that they planned a media circus around conception.
I guess there’s a shot of this being just good timing, or someone else just happened to purchase the domain name and donated it, but either fails Occam’s razor.
What do you think?
Hey, nice catch. I was just about to look up domain name records to see if I could figure out what was behind this site; it hadn’t occurred to me to compare the registration date with a conception date.