What your favorite urban legend?

[fatal xception]

Knots e-mail (the cookie recipe) got me thinking of urban legends. We've all seen the sites, but what's your favorite, or which one did you think was true. Was it the "pop can tabs for cancer" or the "exploding birds from uncooked rice"?

Funny things is at my last job, they had 4 huge pickle jars just filled with pop can tabs. The recycling centers take the tabs and donate the money, but its only the weight of the tabs. Just think how much money could have been donated with the whole nstead of it being thrown away.

I have to admit, the pic of the guy standing on the WTC just before the plane hit it had me fooled for a while.

So what's your favorite?

[Graham]

This is the one I always remember first...


A report has revealed that two traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident whilst checking for speeding motorists on the A1 road between Oldhamstocks and Grantshouse.

Last May, they were using a hand-held radar device to trap unwary motorists on the Edinburgh to London trunk road. One of the unnamed officers used the device to check the speed of an approaching vehicle, and was surprised to find that his target had registered a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour. The £5000 machine then seized up and could not be reset by the bemused PC's. The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado aircraft in the North Sea, which was taking part in a simulated low- flying exercise over the Borders and Southern Scotland.

Following a complaint by Sir William Sutherland, Chief Constable of the Lothian & Borders Police force to the RAF liaison office, it was revealed that the officers had a lucky escape - the tactical computer on board the aircraft not only detected and jammed the "hostile" radar equipment, but had automatically armed a Sidewinder air-to-ground missile ready to neutralize the perceived threat. Luckily the Dutch pilot was alerted to the missile status and was able to override the automatic protection system before the missile launched.

The Police have so far declined to comment, although it is understood that officers will be advised to point their radar guns inland in future.

G

I like the one where the drunk out of town business man picks up the babe in the bar and wakes in his room in the morning in the tub with ice in it and a note to call the doctor cause one of his kidneys was removed..

[kenyg]

Mikey the kid from the old Life cerial commercials - ate pop-rocks and drank coke - all the pressure from carbonation blew his head clean off.




Ken

[osprey4]

Originally posted by kenyg
Mikey the kid from the old Life cerial commercials - ate pop-rocks and drank coke - all the pressure from carbonation blew his head clean off.

LOL!

My favorite was when the manager of our dept computer support group sent out TWO virus hoax messages to the whole department (about 300 people). I found out they were hoaxes on the semantic web site and replied to him about it. He said, oh well, better safe than sorry. The guy is such a dolt!

John

[Knothead]

"Urban Legends" are the sum of our deepest un-expressed fears made into Folk Tales. That's why we like 'em, they're sort of...healing, in a way...

Remember the one about the babysitter who keeps getting these obscene murderous phone calls? So she calls the police, and they keep monitoring the calls, only to call her back, and they tell her "Get out of the house! The calls are coming from UPSTAIRS!!!

OH! OH! How about the one about the couple on vacation, and their hotel room gets robbed, the thieves take EVERYTHING in the room, except for their camera, and their toothbrushes....so they eventually get the film developed, only to see, in one of the pictures, that the malefactors have used the camera to shoot a picture of the thief, with their toothbrushes...well...inserted in a most heinous place...GAH!

[nunyadam]

There is one about a tombstone in one of our local cemetarys.
this particular monument has an angel statue on top and she supposedly revolves at midnight.


and if you want to read up on some. try here.

http://www.snopes2.com/

[fatal xception]

Originally posted by Knothead
Remember the one about the babysitter who keeps getting these obscene murderous phone calls? So she calls the police, and they keep monitoring the calls, only to call her back, and they tell her "Get out of the house! The calls are coming from UPSTAIRS!!!

LOL...Knot, that was a movie

When a stranger calls

[draboo]

i remember one from when i was in grade school(yes,they had grade school that long ago ) about the `63 corvette for sale for 200 bucks. the reason it was so cheap was because someone died in it and wasnt discovered right away and no one could get the smell out of it. strangely,no one could locate it

[jman01pa]

Originally posted by Knothead
OH! OH! How about the one about the couple on vacation, and their hotel room gets robbed, the thieves take EVERYTHING in the room, except for their camera, and their toothbrushes....so they eventually get the film developed, only to see, in one of the pictures, that the malefactors have used the camera to shoot a picture of the thief, with their toothbrushes...well...inserted in a most heinous place...GAH!

I have heard this and I actually remember reading it in the paper one time.

So, what is the moral to this story?

Dont leave your camera in your hotel room!

or

Dont leave your toothbrush!

And is it better to have known and be grossed out so you can throw the toothbrush away or not to know and go on using the toothbrush...


J