claim: A man killed seven people with a chainsaw at a haunted house in California.
origin: On 5 October 2014, the Daily Buzz Live web site reported that a man had killed seven people with a chainsaw at a haunted house in Los Angeles: < A Los Angeles, California man is in custody, and 7 people are dead after a tragic attack inside an East LA hunted house attraction over the weekend that was caught on surveillance video. A Hispanic male, 26-year-old Luis Ortega, entered the Texas Chainsaw Massacre House of Horrors on Fridayâ€™s opening night wielding a chainsaw. > The article quoted people who had witnessed the attack and included surveillance footage of the incident taken from a security camera: While the video accompanying the article was real, it did not capture a man killing seven people with a chainsaw outside of a haunted house. Instead, the video showed an incident from February 2012 in which a man was kicked out of a pub in England. Dean Dinnen, 24, was booted from the Endyke Pub in Hull after he refused to put out a cigarette; the inebriated man then chased patrons with a gas powered chainsaw and injured one woman before patrons subdued him in the street. Dinnen was sentenced to three years in prison for his assault. The video saw a surge in popularity after it was combined with a backstory about a manâ€™s killing seven people at a haunted house with a chainsaw, but no such incident took place. The story about the haunted house killings is fiction, and the video is an old one repurposed to lend it credence. Moreover, a disclaimer on Daily Buzz Live explains that articles on the web site are for â€œentertainment purposes onlyâ€ and that while some stories may be â€œinspired by real news events,â€ they are â€œcomplete fiction.â€