Camel treachery

A few weeks ago, CC and me started seeing posters up all over town for an event at the children's library (theme: Aladdin) upcoming, at which, poster promised, the highlight would be (the following is a direct quotation):

"Desert snakes, bugs, falcons, and a REAL LIVE CAMEL! "

As you can imagine, we became very enthused about this event and planned to attend. In the weeks to come, we would talk frequently about the impending visit of A REAL CAMEL! to our town. We wondered, for example, what the camel was doing right then, whether it was anticipating visiting us, whether it wanted to come to our town, whether it was mistreated in its current location, what it ate, the difference between camels and dromedaries, etc. CC even told her family about this.

We had several conversations about this.

Then we forgot to attend (it was this Saturday and my dissertation is due tomorrow.)

(Scratch that, CC points out: in three hours.)

Anyway, we were very disappointed that we forgot to go see the camel. We spoke at length about this. Did the camel enjoy its visit? The children must have been so excited! How could we forget? Etc.

Then, this afternoon, CC saw the photograph below on the front page of the local paper.

(Phone call)

CC: I have information about the camel.
YSA: What? What?
CC: I saw a picture, and, I think it is not a camel. Rather, it is a human in a camel costume!
YSA: How can that be? They said a REAL LIVE CAMEL!

Dear reader, is this not a case of false advertising, and have those dear children not as a consequence lost all hope?