Old Video from Texas shared claiming that crows aren’t allowing customers to leave supermarket in Saudi.
Claim: A video showing hundreds of black birds flying and swarming outside a supermarket in a parking lot has been going viral on social media with the claim that it is from Saudi Arabia.
The text attached with the viral video reads as follow:
“Crows not allowing customers to come out of super market in Saudi ..
is it the beginning of the end of the world ??”
The post has been shared by various accounts and the same caption has been attached in different regional languages. The post has received above 4000 views.
சவுதியில் சூப்பர் மார்க்கெட்டிலிருந்து வாடிக்கையாளர்களை வெளியே வர அனுமதிக்காத காகங்கள் .. இது உலகின் முடிவின் தொடக்கமா…
Posted by Imman Mass on Wednesday, May 27, 2020
সৌদিতে…. কাকেরা দলবদ্ধ ভাবে আক্রমণ করছে, গ্রাহকদের সুপার মার্কেট থেকে বেরিয়ে আসতে দিচ্ছে না। এটি কি বিশ্বের শুরু না…
Posted by Mohammed Bin Rasheed on Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Crows not allowing customers to come out of super market in Saudi .. is it the beginning of the end of the world ??🙄
Posted by Kedar Shankaar M on Sunday, May 24, 2020
Many people on Twitter also shared the same claim. Indian film director, Anurag Kashyap also tweeted the viral claim.
Birds … https://t.co/LW5jUwV6UN
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 28, 2020
Crows not allowing customers to come out of super market in Saudi ..
is it the beginning of the end of the world ??🙄 pic.twitter.com/5NKy0bXSqR— Roop Darak HINDU (@iRupND) May 28, 2020
Crows are not allowing customers to come out of the Super market in Saudi. Is it the beginning of the end of world? pic.twitter.com/r3ljOZfctp
— Atanu Adhikari (@AtanuAdhikari15) May 28, 2020
Forget the locust problem . Here’ the crows problem in Saudi Arabia. Crows not allowing customers to come out of super market. The world is facing Nature’s Wrath ! Via WA. pic.twitter.com/W0Geyacv4G
— Dinesh Joshi. (@dineshjoshi70) May 27, 2020
Truth
The video is not from Saudi, the claim is false.
Upon doing a simple key word search of “black birds outside parking lot of supermarket”, the same video was found which was posted by Daily Mail. Daily Mail has credited the video to Viral Hog, while following it, the video uploaded by Viral Hog (verified account) on their You Tube channel was found. In the description of the video it states that it occured on 6th December, 2016 at H Mart, Carrollton, Texas, USA. In order to confirm the location of the video, images from Google Street View was compared with the screenshots from the viral video and they have similarities that match.
This process of huge numbers of birds swarming is know as murmuration. Thus, it is proved that the video is not from Saudi and isn’t recent either.
Attached below is the video and the screenshot of description shared by Viral Hog on YouTube.
Source: Viral Hog
This is the video Daily Mail shared.
Thousands of birds attack a car park
This is like something from a horror movie! 😬😱via ViralHog
Posted by Daily Mail on Saturday, April 18, 2020
Source: Daily Mail
Similarities between the screenshots from the viral video and the Google Street view of the H Mart, Carrollton,Texas.
Source: Google Street View
Screenshots of viral post
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