real or just brilliant?

[ratliff]

I know there are people capable of doing this for real. I WANT to believe that this is performance art . . . but it's probably not:

http://www.panopticist.com/archives/221.html

[Brian Boyko]

This was real, but the actor did not take it seriously; this became an internet phenomenon and the real actor took credit for it and did his own send-up of it.