Lie Witness News regularly hits the streets before an event has happened, to see if people will fib about having seen it. They did not disappoint when asked if they'd seen the asteroid. What remains unknown to me is why they lie. It is not a test, and they would not lose face for having missed the event.
More surprising to me, are the astonishing descriptions these people paint of the event they didn't see…which lends credence to the theory that liars embellish far too much. Lest you lose faith in humanity, at the very end there is one honest man. He most assuredly knows what he saw that night – and I, for one am grateful the he didn't embellish!