Note: Bolde previously reported this story as true but it has since been revealed that the Ugandan man who claimed his powerful farts could kill mosquitoes and that he’d been called upon to create a repellent doesn’t exist and the story is a hoax.Â
A Ugandan man who claims that his farts are so powerful that he was recruited to create a mosquito repellent doesn’t actually exist. The Sun originally reported the story which turned out to be a complete and utter hoax.
- It was claimed that his farts could repel insects up to 20-feet away. It sounds ridiculous and in hindsight, it actually is. Whose farts are that powerful and why on earth would stinky wind make mosquitoes avoid you? Somehow, we all fell for it, but it was complete and utter BS.
- The man, named Joe Rwamirama, was said to be part of an intense research report. The original story claimed that so miraculous was Joe’s wind that repellent companies wanted to break down the components of the stench to develop an insect deterrent everyone could use. Clearly, this wasn’t the case.
- The story was fake, start to finish. This always seemed like a hilarious but ridiculous story from the beginning, but then hindsight is always 20/20. Goes to show that if something seems too good (or silly) to be true, it probably is.
