Eh, I thought the song was okay.

The "couldn't afford a camera crew" part is obvious bollocks, however. They can manage to pay for the recording and find the time and money to set up at each location, perform, request all the footage and then have it edited but hiring someone to shoot it would have been prohibitively expensive?

@imamowon - Well, sure they could have tried that... if there wasn't a theater full of other people watching the incident and probably able to distinguish between holding something in front of someone's mouth and shoving it all the way to the back of his throat.

Ugh. I just saw an interview where they're claiming the camera went as far as the uvula, so I guess that's almost "down" the throat.

Doesn't change the fact that the suit is crap, though.

Check the transcript of the suit at TMZ.com - it keeps referring to an "esophagus" camera but claims only that they forced it in his mouth, not his throat. The headline is inaccurate.

If he'd said they bumped his mouth or teeth with the camera, I could buy that, but not that they got it all the way inside his mouth and projected an image of his throat on screen (which, as several people have mentioned, is actually stock footage).

@Thermo: It crossed my mind that certain details might have been redacted in their birth certificates (specifically which hospital and birth parents' name) but it hadn't occurred to me that the date and city might be altered as well. And I'm assuming they both knew they were adopted which may not have been true.

Interestingly, the Snopes message board on this topic doesn't bring up the question of "urban legend" until the second page. There are similar cases on record and this story is certainly possible - but as any fan of urban legends knows, the idea that the story "could have happened" is what keeps it circulating over time rather than being dismissed as a tall tale. So far, the only source for the story is David Alton's speech (and politicians don't always know what they're talking about - c.f. "a series of tubes") which was delivered in support of a particular piece of legislation. Until there's some documentation or a reliable witness, the story should really be counted as rumor.

I saw a documentary where the actress Tricia Fisher (daughter of Eddie, half-sister of Carrie) was describing how her half-brother Todd was flirting with her at a party, not realizing that they were related. So it's not impossible for long-lost siblings to fall for each other.

But going as far as getting married? Being born on the same date in the same city might be written off as an "interesting coincidence" but if they were both adopted and presumably had some physical resemblance, wouldn't the idea that they might be related come up at some point, even as a joke? Even if the two of them were so blinded by attraction as to dismiss it, you'd think one of their friends or family would have said, "You know, you might want to investigate this."