by Gabe Zaldivar
Last updated: 5:00 PM ET, Thu September 25, 2014
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Like the day we found out the truth about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and eating carbs, we are thoroughly depressed, because the KLM lost and found dog is a hoax…a big, fat lie.
We previously brought you the wonderful story of a dog named Sherlock that works for KLM, delivering lost items to befuddled patrons. It tugged at the heartstrings in the way Meg Ryan used to when she was an employable actress. Well, like a rom-com, the story was a fictional tale.
Mashable's Neha Prakash explains the video-posted below as a reminder that nothing in this world is actually good or worthwhile-was just a creative marketing push.
Word comes from Reddit user Moracin who spotted a KLM spokesperson Joost Ruempol interview at Dutch website AD.nl.
Moracin writes, "Dutch person here to burst your bubble, sorry guys! This dog is part of a promotion stunt and does not actually work in the newly launched Lost & Found team."
With the powers of Google Translate, we dive into the AD.nl report, which states plainly, "A real sleuth as in the promotional video that KLM this afternoon Twitter put, is not part of the Lost & Found team."
What's more, the spokesperson offers, "The dog is purely to symbolize that the team is actively searching for the owners of the objects found."
Perhaps something was lost in translation, leading to our confusion of the matter. This was a video picked up by sites such CNN after all.
Then again, the video certainly makes it seem that there is a dog doing actual lost-and-found reconnaissance.
As Prakash notes, a Gizmodo report signals Sherlock may actually make a real appearance soon. Not that we care, because we doubt the veracity there is even a dog in the first place. Maybe the puppy we had as kids was a lie too.
With that, we can no longer believe anything off this Internet machine, and we will have issues letting ourselves feel true happiness again. Thanks, KLM.
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