{"id":1169568,"date":"2021-12-29T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169568"},"modified":"2021-12-29T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:19:23","slug":"fact-check-does-this-picture-show-a-pigeon-sitting-with-a-man-in-a-jerusalem-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-picture-show-a-pigeon-sitting-with-a-man-in-a-jerusalem-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Picture Show A Pigeon Sitting With A Man In A Jerusalem Hospital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-picture-show-a-pigeon-sitting-with-a-man-in-a-jerusalem-hospital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4730191760353300&amp;set=a.857362570969591&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a patient in a Jerusalem hospital with a pigeon he allegedly fed every day perched on top of him.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture shows an unknown patient in the Cardiology Ward of Red Cross Hospital in Athens, Greece, in 2013. There is no evidence the story included in the post is real.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4730191760353300&amp;set=a.857362570969591&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> shows a man lying in a hospital bed with a pigeon perched atop his sleeping body. The post\u2019s caption claims the photo was taken by a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital, who allegedly said, \u201cIt\u2019s been 23 days since this patient came to the hospital and for those 23 days, none of his family came to see him, except a pigeon, everyday. We later discovered, this patient sat on a park bench near the hospital and fed the pigeons everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no evidence that this story is true. Using a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the picture was originally shared by an independent filmmaker named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2134775\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ioannis Protonotarios<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/protonotarios\/10385581784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr<\/a> in 2013. The photo was taken in Athens, Greece, according to the Flickr post, not Jerusalem. The original post gives no indication as to what the image depicts and does not include the story shared on Facebook.<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/02\/07\/fact-check-image-coronavirus-hospital-wuhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Viral Image Claims To Show A Chinese Coronavirus Hospital In Wuhan?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protonotarios told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/webqoof\/years-old-image-of-pigeon-on-hospital-patient-fact-check\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Quint<\/a> in September of 2020 that he had taken the picture in the Cardiology Ward of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emporis.com\/buildings\/168185\/red-cross-hospital-athens-greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Cross Hospital in Athens<\/a> during his father\u2019s stay there. The man pictured had shared the room with his father and, while he had been sleeping, Protonotarios noticed the bird perch on his body and quickly snapped the picture. Once Protonotarios\u2019s father was moved to the hospital\u2019s Intensive Care Unit, he never saw the man again, the filmmaker told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/webqoof\/years-old-image-of-pigeon-on-hospital-patient-fact-check#read-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has reached out to Ioannis Protonotarios for comment and will update this piece if a response is given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a patient in a Jerusalem hospital with a pigeon he allegedly fed every day perched on top of him.Verdict: False The picture shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}