Mexican man captures live fairy

Jose Maldonado, a 22-year-old bricklayer in Guadalajara, found a live fairy.

“I was picking guavas and I saw a twinkling. I thought it was a firefly. I picked it up and felt that it was moving; when I looked at it I knew that it was a fairy godmother,” Maldonado said.

Sadly, it died, but he pickled it in formaldehyde and allows the curious to take a peek for a fee.

Gentleman captures live fairy

UPDATE: Looky here. (Thanks, Thoma!)

• [Rich Keller]

  I do believe that is a pixie-fairy figure from Kenzer and Company’s Hackmaster miniature line. If this were Coolminiornot, I would give it a rating of 2. [/comicshopguyvoice]

• [Graham Martin]

  Tinkerbell jokes may commence in…three…two…one….Initiate!

• [Toxa]

  A true gentleman would never capture a fairy

• [Carlos Watson]

  There’s got to be more of them out there. Hoggle, we need you!

• [groovehouse]

  I bet he’s got a chupacabra as a pet too!

• [Daniel Barreto]

  this is fake. there’s no fairy whatsoever but rather a scam to get money off ignorant people in Guadalajara. Trol’d

  • [irksome]

    “You gotta BELIEVE!”

  • [Lobster]

    Really?  Do you think?  Do you think that maybe he doesn’t have a real fairy, because none of us were sure.

  • [Electro_Jones]

    Gee, thanks for setting us straight.

  • [Ryan O’Keefe]

    shucks really? and i was gonna plan a holiday around this… :(

  • [Shane Ford]

    are you sure?

• [Thoma Daneau]

  http://yfrog.com/h4mx3jjtj lol

• [dross1260]

  What next? A fairy in a maguey?

• [dwdyer]

  Doesn’t look like the fairies I know.  http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy

• [Nawel]

  I guess it’s kinda obvious, but local media has already published it is a hoax. The “fairy” is a Disney toy of some kind. Here’s a link in spanish from last week:
   http://www.cooperativa.cl/el-misterio-de-la-hada-madrina-en-mexico-llego-a-su-fin/prontus_nots/2011-08-12/163841.html

  • [cymk]

    Technically its Disney; it looks like a marvel action figure of Wasp.

    http://www.wondrouswasp.altervista.org/w72-81.htm

• [Boomer]

  Oh, ye of little faith.  Clap your hands together and repeat after me.  I do believe in fairies.

• [nanuq]

  The Avengers are going to be mighty pissed when they find out what happened to the Wasp…

• [abstract_reg]

  Fairies only die if you don’t believe I them. So clearly this man doesn’t believe in fairies. Therefore this must be a scam.

• [KBert]

  Pickled plastic; formaldehyde fairies; curious creeps… Yay!

• [HenryPootel]

  I believe what he captured was a fairly, not a fairy.

• [Kaleberg]

  This reminds me of Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book, sort of a parody of An Edwardian Lady’s Country Book.

  http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Cottingtons-Pressed-Fairy-Book/dp/B000GUJHEO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313695044&sr=8-2
   

• [baronkarza]

  This is an advance pre-teaser for JJ Abrams’ new Micronauts movie..
  They came from Inner Space!

• [Jay]

  Dude’s a genius 

• [Inchoate]

  Wait until they get a load of my Ghost in a Jar.

• [Palomino]

  “You charlatan, that’s not formaldehyde!”

• [Ryan O’Keefe]

  there’s actually people having to post links to show its a hoax….

  and as for the people queuing in the video……… ¡Ay, caramba!

• [J B]

  Don’t drink the water!

• [Gulliver]

  Another tragic victim of LSD.

  See what happens to minorities in drug wars?

  At least this time it wasn’t a shark.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLA0ofsu0Qg&ob=av2e

  The Avengers are going to be mighty pissed when they find out what happened to the Wasp..

  Not to mention Oberon.

• [Ellie Van Woerden Geisenheimer]

  A fairy or not a lot to drink anything could be a fairy as fairies go
  so did we drink or is this a fairy we did not know
  for a man with a fairy could he be the fairy himself
  or did he catch a fairy and we just do not know ????

• [foxX 1337]

  UUUU, reminds me of the Goiania thingy, where for a small fee the curious could take death - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident