Urban legends that people swear are true because it happened to their 'friend'

Buzz Killington the third

I've heard loads over the years. I always call people on it and say it's bullshít but they insist the scenario's actually happened to someone they know.

Best ones I've heard:

A friend's son stole a penguin from the zoo and they found him giving it a bath.
- Heard that one multiple times.

A friend of a friend got stoned and captured a leprechaun, which turned out to be a kid with downs syndrome.
- Heard it a few times too and always say "That's kidnapping, why was it not on the news then?"

A friend of mine had a pet snake that used to lie beside him at night... turned out it was measuring him up for dinner.
- No, this never happened. Just google that story and you'll find hundreds the same!

So, got any good ones?

solomafioso

The fella on a green motorbike that was a kidnapper. That was one that went around when I was a childer.

syklops

The friend, the traveler girl, "Lob it up there sham".

I have two friends who swear blind this happened to "their friend", both different people, in different parts of the country.

RoboRat

The friend, the traveler girl, "Lob it up there sham".

I have two friends who swear blind this happened to "their friend", both different people, in different parts of the country.

Yup, heard that too

curlzy

syklops wrote: »

The friend, the traveler girl, "Lob it up there sham".

I have two friends who swear blind this happened to "their friend", both different people, in different parts of the country.

If most traveller girls have sex before marraige they have an awful time of it within traveller society. This one definately isn't true.

Big Nasty

The one about the girl getting licked out by her dog (puts dog food on her box) only to get caught by the whole family as they busrt in to give her a surprise party.

Total BS - who ever had a surprise party that had no inkling that it was being put on? :pac:

iMac_Hunt

Only recently overheard a woman while in Spain on holidays telling another woman that her friend was getting a bus in Limerick when a black woman arrived with a buggy. The bus driver told the woman there wasn't room for the buggy on the bus so the black woman left the buggy at the side of the road and said the Social Welfare will get me a new one.

Duff

The '...Genuinely Creepy Or Unnerving...' thread is full of them.

curlzy

Yeah heard the free buggies from SW LOADS of times!

eviltwin

iMac_Hunt wrote: »

Only recently overheard a woman while in Spain on holidays telling another woman that her friend was getting a bus in Limerick when a black woman arrived with a buggy. The bus driver told the woman there wasn't room for the buggy on the bus so the black woman left the buggy at the side of the road and said the Social Welfare will get me a new one.

I've heard so many people tell this story and the other one about the allowance of x amount a week for African women to have their hair done.

Rasheed

syklops wrote: »

The friend, the traveler girl, "Lob it up there sham".

I have two friends who swear blind this happened to "their friend", both different people, in different parts of the country.

What's that about? That some lad got off with a traveller? I don't think I know that one

iMac_Hunt

curlzy wrote: »

Yeah heard the free buggies from SW LOADS of times!

The amount of times I have heard is crazy and I have found the majority of people telling it have never nor never will, work a day in their life

Mr. CooL ICE

Drunk girl passes out at party. Male population of said party proceed to "have turns" with her. One realises the next day the girl was his sister.

Custardpi

Big Nasty wrote: »

The one about the girl getting licked out by her dog (puts dog food on her box) only to get caught by the whole family as they busrt in to give her a surprise party.

Total BS - who ever had a surprise party that had no inkling that it was being put on? :pac:

I've heard a variation of that where it was broadcast on a Spanish TV show. The singer Ricky Martin was apparently hiding in the closet & there were hidden cameras in the room to record her surprise upon meeting her idol. For some reason instead of immediately cutting to ads when she stripped off the tv executives just went with it but did cut just before the canine action began. I wonder how many people have actually tried to find that footage online...:D

mark13

The foreign friend who says "thanks, pennys" because she thinks its an expression here.

The girl/guy who after a one night stand or something is alone in a strangers flat, realises the toilet is out of order or some such nonsense, ends up relieving himself/herself into a plastic bag..he/she leaves the flat, but forgets to bring the bag with him/her.

The Bono/Springsteen in a restaurant story.

Buzz Killington the third

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Best ones I've heard:

A friend's son stole a penguin from the zoo and they found him giving it a bath.
- Heard that one multiple times.

That one has some basis of truth to it!

http://m.rte.ie/news/touch//2010/0708/133130-penguin/

Gandhi

Custardpi wrote: »

The singer Ricky Martin was apparently hiding in the closet

This part turned out to be true, no?

syklops

Rasheed wrote: »

What's that about? That some lad got off with a traveller? I don't think I know that one

Guy pulls girl in niteclub, between the dark and disorientating lights its not until they are outside that he realizes she is a traveller(not that there is anything wrong with that of course). Guy panics thinking she is going to take him back to the caravan and that her father will murder him til he is dead. Instead girl brings him behind the niteclub and uses the "lob it up there". The "sham" is sometimes added for extra comedic effect.

syklops

iMac_Hunt wrote: »

Only recently overheard a woman while in Spain on holidays telling another woman that her friend was getting a bus in Limerick when a black woman arrived with a buggy. The bus driver told the woman there wasn't room for the buggy on the bus so the black woman left the buggy at the side of the road and said the Social Welfare will get me a new one.

Don't forget the one about the fella selling his car and an African arrives and asks will he take a cheque and the fella says why and the African says he got a cheque from the SW to buy a car because he was being racially abused on the bus.

Gandhi

syklops wrote: »

The friend, the traveler girl, "Lob it up there sham".

I have two friends who swear blind this happened to "their friend", both different people, in different parts of the country.

I'd always hear about the Cork girl who said "Hurrrrl it into me, bhoy". Probably because I was the only Cork guy in the group of lads, and they were taking the mick.

Custardpi

Yeah that's an old one alright. The slight variation on it I heard was that the lad, as a kind of foreplay started by engaging in some digital exploration at which the girl exclaimed "Ah will ye stop with the fancy stuff & just horse it into me!".

blackwhite

Custardpi wrote: »

Yeah that's an old one alright. The slight variation on it I heard was that the lad, as a kind of foreplay started by engaging in some digital exploration at which the girl exclaimed "Ah will ye stop with the fancy stuff & just horse it into me!".

That's the version I heard a fair few times as well

Gandhi

Deleted User wrote: »

That one has some basis of truth to it!

http://m.rte.ie/news/touch//2010/0708/133130-penguin/

I used to hear this story in UCC in the early '90s. It was a guy stole a penguin from Fota, and was keeping it in his bath. Usually told by a guy who lived near Fota for added credibility.

Awkward Badger

I heard the penguin one and the leprechaun under the stairs one a good few times.

And I recall one about a girl in Amsterdam who was dancing with this fella and was set to go back to his place. But got separated after going to the loo or something. Then seen on the news a few weeks later he was arrested for a string of murders of women he'd picked up at the bar.

There was also the one about a girl getting some sort of infection down below and the doctors being confused as it was usually related to corpses. Turns out the girls boyfriend who worked in a hospital was riding the stiffs.

Both of those were accompanied by "This actually happened to my friends sister who lives in Amsterdam".

Buzz Killington the third

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That one has some basis of truth to it!

http://m.rte.ie/news/touch//2010/0708/133130-penguin/

That's from 2010. The story I've heard over and over is about a kid stealing it on a school trip and it's well over 15 years since I first heard it yet every time I've heard it, it only happened recently.

Heard the traveler story too many times to count. "Lob it into me, boss"

Mr. CooL ICE

Friend's aunt's cousin's friend worked in a mental hospital for criminally insane. Goes out for the evening and hires a babysitter. Rings in the middle of the evening to check up on babysitter. Babysitter says the child is scared by the life size clown doll in the corner of the room. Gets told to leave the house because they don't have any life-size clown doll

Custardpi

Most of these have some credibility in the sense that they're not describing scientifically impossible phenomena, they could potentially happen to somebody. It's more the fact that they seem to have happened to a large percentage of the population that casts the most doubt on them. Apparently millions of people claim to have attended Woodstock, while at one time just about any monastry in Europe claimed to possess a piece of the True Cross.

Dolbert

The one where a beloved family dog dies, and the owner lives in an apartment so has nowhere to bury him. She rings the vet who tells her to bring Rover down so they can cremate him. She decides to bring him in a large suitcase down the road to the vets. A young lad offers to help with the suitcase, and asks what's in it as it's so heavy. She panics and says it's her boyfriend's decks, he's a DJ. Young fella then runs off with the suitcase.

syklops

There was one going around my RDF unit that had been witnessed by one of the lads. Large billet(like a dormitory), 200 beds in rows. One of the lads meets a girl and brings her back to the billet(unlikely). 10 minutes of rhythm creaking ensues, with herself whispering "harder" at intervals. After about 10 minutes one of the supposed 200 listening in, shouts out "Would you just c*m FFS?!?"

Any time I heard that story the location of the camp/barracks changed.

Big Nasty

Girl on holidays in wherever, holiday romance with gringo, gringo gives her a present when she's leaving and tells her not to open it until she's on the plane. It's a miniature coffin with a message inside saying she now has AIDS (too).

Roquentin

Duff wrote: »

The '...Genuinely Creepy Or Unnerving...' thread is full of them.

the first one about gacy is not believable

Senna

A friend of mine always told the story about his mate from college who was at an "open day" at DIT (or some college in Dublin), went to the toilet and came back into a large auditorium full of people.
People started staring at him, then pointing and laughing, he just started going red and didn't know what to do. He looked down and his Mickey was hanging out of his trouser zip.
I called bull**** on it for years, how the hell could that actually happen, then I met the guy and it did happen.

gerard_65

The friend of a friend is on holidays/working in Holland (or some other European country). Meets a girl in a nightclub. Back to her place, getting frisky between the sheets. Puts his hand down and realises 'shes' a shemale. Runs out without his clothes and wallet.

Cantremember

Duff wrote: »

The '...Genuinely Creepy Or Unnerving...' thread is full of them.

+100

Stereomaniac

The one where the guy goes back with the girl in Ibiza to an apartment and she ties him up.

thelad95

My uncle was a carpenter working in New York during 9/11. His wife (living in Ireland) told a local rag that he was working in New York which they spun into a bullsh*t story about how he was meant to be in one of the Twin Towers to measure out a floor for a new carpet but missed the appointment due to his car having broken down.

Shane-KornSpace

Was told the snake story by a work colleague. Called BS on it straight away.

The one about to the friend who was watching porn loudly and when he woke up, there was 2 cups of tea left by the bed because his mother thought he had a woman over. Was told this one, can't remember by whom.

The one about the lad riding his sister.

The one about the down syndrome kid being kidnapped.

And the classic one about the woman who contracted a disease which can only be gotten from necrophilia.

gerard_65 wrote: »

The friend of a friend is on holidays/working in Holland (or some other European country). Meets a girl in a nightclub. Back to her place, getting frisky between the sheets. Puts his hand down and realises 'shes' a shemale. Runs out without his clothes and wallet.

This apparently happened to an acquaintance of mine.

Mariasofia

Stereomaniac wrote: »

The one where the guy goes back with the girl in Ibiza to an apartment and she ties him up.

And!? ...... :-D

Custardpi

Some of them would scare you even if you know they're probably BS. I've always been extra careful with my drinks when I meet medical students on a night out, don't want to end up in a bath with a telephone beside it the next morning.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I've heard two urban legends several times.

1. The one about the two lads going shooting and one going asking a farmer can they shoot on his land and he says ok but will you shoot that old lame cow in the far field while your at it so the lad goes back to the car and tell his friend that the farmer refused and drives off and then stops along the side of the road and says 'I'll show that aul bastard and gets out if the car and shoots the lame cow. His friend gets all fired up and grabs his shotgun and shoots 3 more.

The other one is about the 'loose' girl at the party that is leaning out the window and let's several of the party goers have a go (from behind) so one lad goes up and does the job and then when he finishes he goes back downstairs and outside for a smoke and he looks up at the bedroom window and see's his sister hanging out the window while being banged from behind.

Arthur Beesley

That lad that died from dehydration after he shat himself. That was my mate Sid.

rawn

Dunno if it has been said, too tired to read words.

My ex swore his friend was masturbating in his room in bed with earphones on and when he opened his eyes his mam had put his dinner down beside him. I heard it a few times after that from different, unconnected friends.

Ditch

Awkward Badger wrote: »

There was also the one about a girl getting some sort of infection down below and the doctors being confused as it was usually related to corpses. Turns out the girls boyfriend who worked in a hospital was riding the stiffs.

That's the one! " Vaginal Worms ". We were told that one by an absolutely mortified girl, whose friends friend had been the victim. She was a nice, quiet girl ~ the teller. Always kept herself to herself, in the corner of the bar with another girl.

She was so stressed out by it, she Had To come over and ask us what we thought. Bit like making a first post on AH. Social f**king suicide :rolleyes:

Next night, on relaying this gruesome story to that nights intake, one lad piped up and just said;

" Bollox! That's a crock! It happened in This city? Well, I was up in (300+ miles north) last week. And I was hearing the same tale there! "

Damn! And it had been so deliciously credible!

Custardpi

Ricky Gervais talks about the headphones one having happened to a mate of his in one of his routines, not sure if that's the original version though.

Ankhyu

Used to work in a pet shop, and different customers would tell me the snake story EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. I knew it was BS first time I heard it, and every time they started telling it, I had to cut them short cause I was sh*t sick of hearing the ****ing thing :mad:

AlexisM

Have three times heard variations of: "friend 1 works in the airport - friend 2 (female) passing through airport - friend 1 plants vibrator in friend 2's hand luggage and sets up security to stop her and embarrass her - but wouldn't you know - security found two vibrators!' (facepalm)

milltown

The barman bringing an extra cash register in on busy nights.

The prime minister of the "best country in the world" getting involved in a row over a concert.

The guy who decided to give his car a haircut before he sold it (clock it), but when he took the speedo out there was a sticker on it saying "Oh no! Not again."

thelad95

milltown wrote: »

The barman bringing an extra cash register in on busy nights.

The prime minister of the "best country in the world" getting involved in a row over a concert.

The guy who decided to give is car a haircut before he sold it (clock it), but when he took the speedo out there was a sticker on it saying "Oh no! Not again."

That happens.

milltown

thelad95 wrote: »

That happens.

That's the spirit!

ofcork

Mariasofia wrote: »

And!? ...... :-D

Version I heard supposedly happened in London,after tying your man up leaves the room and a big guy comes in and rides your man!

mlumley

I heard one about a couple got wed in Cork. Groom was saying his thanks to all who came, then thanked his Best man for all he done for him, including shagging the Bride the night before the wedding. Told him to keep her, as she was a slag, and went off on the honeymoon by himself. Also alternative ending was he went off with a bridesmaid he was humping.