Satirical story of a young man drinking his blood after blood donation is shared as real - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
November 22, 2022
A post is being shared on social media claiming that a young man who went for blood donation drunk his own donated blood out of anger that he was not given a juice packet after the blood donation. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A young man drank his own donated blood out of anger as he was not given a juice packet after the blood donation.
Fact: The story shared in the post was published by the ‘Pehchan Faridabad’ website in July 2020. This story originated from a satirical article published by ‘The Fauxy’ three years ago. It is not a real story. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When we searched for this news story using relevant keywords on the internet, we found that the photo shows a screengrab from an article published by the ‘Pehchan Faridabad’ website on 24 July 2020. ‘Pehchan Faridabad’ in the article reported that a man named Chuttan Pandey drunk his own blood out of anger that he was not given a juice packet after the blood donation. This article reports that Chuttan Pandey had accepted blood donation for Parle G biscuits and juice and that when he felt cheated for not providing juice after blood donation, he drank his own blood.
When searched for further sources using relevant keywords, the same story was found in an article published by ‘The Fauxy’ three years ago. The news story published by the ‘Pehchan Faridabad’ website originated from this article published by ‘The Fauxy’.
A disclaimer provided on ‘The Fauxy’ website states, “Fauxy is a satirical web portal. The material published on this website is based on fiction. Readers are advised not to consider articles in the fauxy to be factual or true” (when translated the text from Hindi to English). Also, the image shared in these articles show a very old picture of medical students donating blood during a blood donation drive organised in Amritsar, in May 2013. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the news story shared in the post is originated from a satirical article published by ‘The Fauxy’.
To sum it up, satirical story of a young man drinking his donated blood for not being provided juice after donation is shared as real.