Urban legends

Yester · 22-06-2018 01:48PM

corner of hells wrote: »

Erm , I worked on a building site years ago where an apprentice was caught boiling eggs in the Burco , he was only caught because of the taste of the water.

I caught a fellow at work shaving out of the kettle.

Joe prim · 22-06-2018 01:54PM

Omackeral wrote: »

I don’t know about any of these stories but as I was coming to work on the bus some black one tried to get on with her buggy. The driver said “sorry love, I’ve two buggies on here already, you’ll have to wait for the next bus”. The lady just took the kid out and left it at the bus stop and said “it is fine, the social welfare will give me another”.

The same thing happened to my cousin by marriage's next door neighbour, except that the black woman then paid everybody's fare and it turned that she was Beyoncé on her way to a gig in Croker.

angryIreGamer · 22-06-2018 01:57PM

Yester wrote: »

I caught a fellow at work shaving out of the kettle.

how the **** did he fit in a kettle?

NickNickleby · 22-06-2018 02:04PM

angryIreGamer wrote: »

how the **** did he fit in a kettle?

for crying out loud, angry, he only had to fit his face in.
and his hand
and the razor.

edit: it was his face he was shaving wasn't it??

Your Face · 22-06-2018 02:07PM

This one has happened everywhere to everyone ever:

A family moved into one house of a row of attached houses.
Every morning they wake up and the place looks a little bit different. Sometimes food is missing.

Then one night, one of the children says they saw a man in the kitchen but the parents don't believe him.
Weeks pass when the father needs to put stuff up in the attic.
He gets up there and first thing he notices is there is no wall between the attics in the houses.
He then sees that the place is kitted out to be a home. Someone is living up there and sneaking into the house at night to steal food.

DaeryssaOne · 22-06-2018 02:07PM

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Will Smith. The hit the floor one.

What is that one? I've heard most others on here and am now intrigued?

Are Am Eye wrote: »

The babysitter and the clown statue....

Jesus that properly freaked me out for weeks after I heard it as a young teenager! I got the heebie jeebies even now thinking about it, daft and all as it is!

NickNickleby · 22-06-2018 02:20PM

Your Face wrote: »

This one has happened everywhere to everyone ever:

A family moved into one house of a row of attached houses.
Every morning they wake up and the place looks a little bit different. Sometimes food is missing.

Then one night, one of the children says they saw a man in the kitchen but the parents don't believe him.
Weeks pass when the father needs to put stuff up in the attic.
He gets up there and first thing he notices is there is no wall between the attics in the houses.
He then sees that the place is kitted out to be a home. Someone is living up there and sneaking into the house at night to steal food.

better one:
(told to me as absolute indisputable fact even down to identifying the specific house.....I suggested that with such detailed knowledge, he must be the perp.)
Three young teenage girls share a bedroom. One night after lights out they hear something in the attic, and there seems to be a crack of light coming in beside the ceiling light fitting. Dad investigates and finds hole knocked out of attic wall to next door and a mattress, lamp and porn mags stored over the girls' bedroom.

My granny's house was like that, actually, no dividing wall in the attics. Never heard any stories of shenanigans though.

Stigura · 22-06-2018 02:38PM

realdanbreen wrote: »

I think you might be mixing your Urban Legends up with your Urban Myths ?

Allinall wrote: »

How come you never hear about rural legends, apart from Marty Morrissey of course?

Leitrim is a Rural Myth

Theboinkmaster · 22-06-2018 02:42PM

DaeryssaOne wrote: »

What is that one? I've heard most others on here and am now intrigued?

just google it - not true and joke has been around since 70s, was eddie murphy, then will smith etc.

_Dara_ · 22-06-2018 02:50PM

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Will Smith. The hit the floor one.

Someone related the ‘hit the floor’ one to huge applause on Graham Norton once!

_Dara_ · 22-06-2018 02:54PM

It’s always funny when someone gets indignant when you tell them they’ve just told you an urban myth.

Huffing and puffing and insisting that they know the person it happened to. But they never can give a name...

Iseedeadpixels · 22-06-2018 03:03PM

The removed rib to suck his own dick myth, in my day it was Prince but I've heard Marilyn Manson too.

youtheman · 22-06-2018 03:06PM

Fellow goes into a milking parlour only to find his friend with one hand on the machine and one foot off the ground, shaking violently. Reckons he is getting electrocuted, so being smart he decides to free yer man without touching him. So he gets a large plank and hits him on the arm, thus releasing him from the machine. Broke his arm though, but what the heck, he saved his life!. Turns out yer man had a stone in his wellington and was too lazy to take it off, so he just grabbed the machine for balance and shook his foot to drive the stone to the toe of the boot.

iamwhoiam · 22-06-2018 03:08PM

A neighbour of my friends sister in law was driving down a country road in Waterford one dark November night . She pulled into a garage to get a drink . As she pulled out a car followed her flashing lights and blinding her in the mirror . The car followed her far too close for comfort so as she got to the main road she pulled into a garage . The car followed her and the driver jumped out and pulled her out of the car .
He was an off duty Garda and had seen a man get into her back seat and lie low . When he was pulled out he had a knife and a rope in his rucksak

Same thing happened in Galway , Cork , Longford and Mayo

harry Bailey esq · 22-06-2018 03:11PM

Stigura wrote: »

Leitrim is a Rural Myth

It actually does exist. But Paul Williams mentions Leitrim at least seven times every morning on newstalk, hence a lot of people make the easy mistake of assuming it's existence is bull****.

realdanbreen · 22-06-2018 03:17PM

Yester wrote: »

I caught a fellow at work shaving out of the kettle.

What! Was he standing in the kettle?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 22-06-2018 03:23PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

A neighbour of my friends sister in law was driving down a country road in Waterford one dark November night . She pulled into a garage to get a drink . As she pulled out a car followed her flashing lights and blinding her in the mirror . The car followed her far too close for comfort so as she got to the main road she pulled into a garage . The car followed her and the driver jumped out and pulled her out of the car .
He was an off duty Garda and had seen a man get into her back seat and lie low . When he was pulled out he had a knife and a rope in his rucksak

Same thing happened in Galway , Cork , Longford and Mayo

I heard that one in Mayo but people actually named the person who was apparently arrested. They probably just attached an existing myth to a local person who was known as being unstable or dangerous.

_Dara_ · 22-06-2018 03:24PM

A popular late 90s-early 00s one was the person pulling in to the petrol station and the worker waving frantically at them. The driver goes to the worker who tells them there’s a man hiding in the back behind the driver seat.

EDIT: Oops, sorry, iamwhoiam!

I heard this one SO many times with people swearing that it was true.

The snake one was also one I got sick of hearing about.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 22-06-2018 03:27PM

The lad drinking liquid LSD from a naggin bottle at Oxegen and going mad.

ArnoldJRimmer · 22-06-2018 03:30PM

This one was very common during the Celtic Tiger. A couple are getting married and get a call from Ashford Castle/ Castle Leslie where they have booked their reception. They are asked if they can move their wedding date as David & Victoria Beckham/ Paul & Heather McCartney are renewing their vows/ getting married, and want the hotel for that exact date. But they are willing to pay for the couple's wedding in full, including honeymoon. Happened to many friends of friends, so a lot of free weddings round that time

williestroker1 · 22-06-2018 03:30PM

Girl I know went to a chippendales gig years ago. At some stage a posing pouch was thrown into the audience missing her by inches but she felt something go into her eye. Days later her eye became sorer and sorer. She goes to the doctor and after examining her eye he uses a tweezers to get a pubic lice from her eye.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 22-06-2018 03:36PM

Somebody was high on shrooms and kidnapped a Down syndrome child thinking that it was a goblin or something.

greenspurs · 22-06-2018 03:38PM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

This one was very common during the Celtic Tiger. A couple are getting married and get a call from Ashford Castle/ Castle Leslie where they have booked their reception. They are asked if they can move their wedding date as David & Victoria Beckham/ Paul & Heather McCartney are renewing their vows/ getting married, and want the hotel for that exact date. But they are willing to pay for the couple's wedding in full, including honeymoon. Happened to many friends of friends, so a lot of free weddings round that time

Yep, heard that , A co worker said it was her sons friend was asked to move their wedding , but it was for Frank Lampard and Whatever her name is ??

Yester · 22-06-2018 03:42PM

NickNickleby wrote: »

for crying out loud, angry, he only had to fit his face in.
and his hand
and the razor.

edit: it was his face he was shaving wasn't it??

Yeah just his face. He was always first into work and he used shaving foam. He would dunk his razor into the kettle to rinse it as he shaved. He couldn't understand my over reaction when I caught him. " I wash it out when I'm done"
I had so many cups of tea out of that kettle before I knew what was going on.

Paddy Cow · 22-06-2018 03:46PM

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

The removed rib to suck his own dick myth, in my day it was Prince but I've heard Marilyn Manson too.

The human Ken Doll actually did have his lower ribs removed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5482519/Human-Ken-Doll-Rodrigo-Alves-28-000-surgery-remove-FOUR-ribs.html

Yester · 22-06-2018 03:47PM

Can you actually get crabs from using public toilets?

Your Face · 22-06-2018 03:47PM

Yester wrote: »

Can you actually get crabs from using public toilets?

Only the ones at the beach.

fxotoole · 22-06-2018 03:50PM

Joe prim wrote: »

The same thing happened to my cousin by marriage's next door neighbour

Seems legit :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:

Yester · 22-06-2018 04:02PM

Can a rat actually find it's way up through the pipes and it's only way out is through your toilet while you are defecating?

Ragnar Lothbrok · 22-06-2018 04:05PM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

This one was very common during the Celtic Tiger. A couple are getting married and get a call from Ashford Castle/ Castle Leslie where they have booked their reception. They are asked if they can move their wedding date as David & Victoria Beckham/ Paul & Heather McCartney are renewing their vows/ getting married, and want the hotel for that exact date. But they are willing to pay for the couple's wedding in full, including honeymoon. Happened to many friends of friends, so a lot of free weddings round that time

Oh Jesus............I actually fell for that one. Believed it until right now

Urban legends

Comments