Urban legends

Chris P. Bacon · 16-04-2011 10:07PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Only New Ross people say Summerdrink. In fact they reckon only people from one side of the town say it.

Im actually Polish i just live in New Ross,but we call them summerdrinks in Poland too.

mikemac · 16-04-2011 10:11PM

Went home with a traveller girl one night
"none of your fancy stuff, horse it in boss"

There was some student who cracked under pressure in an exam. Put a pencil up each nostril and slammed his head forward off the desk, caused massive injuries to the brain and he died

Some other smart ass Trinity student demanded cake and wine in an exam hall from some obscure law. He got this cake and wine but later got fined for not having a sword. One poster on boards claimed this happened to them :rolleyes:

Every summer there are white vans touring Ireland snatching children. I heard it was I was 5, 6, 7 and most every summer, even read the stories on boards over in North Dublin forum
The van is usually white.

Larianne · 16-04-2011 10:15PM

There's the one going around now that if you're a girl you should never sit in the front seat of a taxi as there maybe another man hiding in the back and you might end up getting abducted/raped etc.

My Dad told me that one.

mikemac · 16-04-2011 10:15PM

I was getting the number 9 from Eyre Sq in Galway
There was a black women at a stop and she left a pram there as she boarded the bus.
One old women asked was she not going to bring her pram

"No, sure the social will just give me another"

Heard that one in Galway, Dublin and Cork, just switch the bus number.
Even heard it in Belfast under a different welfare system

People telling the story swear they saw it themselves or from a reliable source

I also heard the Africans get 2k to buy cars as they get abuse on public transport
All I can say for this one is Irish people take abuse on public transport also. Dublin Bus 78A, worst bus I've ever commuted on

Larianne · 16-04-2011 10:19PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

I was getting the number 9 from Eyre Sq in Galway
There was a black women at a stop and she left a pram there as she boarded the bus.
One old women asked was she not going to bring her pram

"No, sure the social will just give me another"

Heard that one in Galway, Dublin and Cork, just switch the bus number.
Even heard it in Belfast under a different welfare system

I don't believe the above but I have seen a fair few abandoned buggies near bus stops. WTF is all that about?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 16-04-2011 10:19PM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Im actually Polish i just live in New Ross,but we call them summerdrinks in Poland too.

Interesting. I wonder how calling them that caught on in the South-East? I've never heard it anywhere else.

Chris P. Bacon · 16-04-2011 10:30PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Interesting. I wonder how calling them that caught on in the South-East? I've never heard it anywhere else.

Ah im only joking im born and bred in Waterford boy!!

As Seany said we have been calling them that here for donkey years

hdowney · 17-04-2011 11:06AM

so what are they actually called then?

TPD · 17-04-2011 01:05PM

The one about someone's pet snake refusing food for a week or so, and sleeping stretched out on the bed with the owner. Take it to a vet to see what's up with it, turns out it was sizing up the owner for its next meal, and fasting to get good and hungry.

Wolflikeme · 17-04-2011 01:10PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

A classic from twenty or so years ago.

This family went on hols and someone broke into their gaff but nothing was taken.

A few weeks after they got home from their hols, they had their photos developed and there were pics of their tooth brushes up someone's arse.

Why wouldn't they bring their toothbrushes on holidays!?

Father Damo · 17-04-2011 01:14PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Pighead

Most overrated poster ever.

Probably the worst is the "girl kissed a man in Amsterdam, caught a rash and it turned out to ne a rash you can only catch off dead bodies and tyhe guy who kissed her was a serial killer".

Ive heard that one of several people. One of them my mam, who swore blind it happened to her workmates daughter.

My mam is beyond retarded, in general. If you are such a spa to believe a story that had zero media coverage Im surprised you can read or write FFS,.

ArmaniJeanss · 17-04-2011 01:21PM

Potential one-night-stand girl brings you back to hotel room, drugs you, robs your kidneys and leaves you in the bath with post-it-note on your mobile telling you to ring the medics.

mikemac · 17-04-2011 01:26PM

Girls night out
One girl drinks too much, might collapse or have issues standing, probably does some ridicoulous behaviour and may end up going home with some random guy

Wakes up next day.
Not my fault, my drink was spiked :eek:

Heads home and housemate or parents asks what happened

She can say:
"I drank way too much and made a fool of myself" or
"My drink was spiked, I'm a victim"

Date rape was all over the news years ago, don't hear about it so much anymore. I believe drugs have a dye so not colourless anymore

But there was a lot of hype over this, you'd swear there were predators in every town in Ireland with supplies of drugs. Very few if any convictions though over this and I've been searching for court cases and court reports

amdublin · 17-04-2011 01:28PM

The one about the couple who have their wedding reception booked and the hotel rings them up saying they need the date.

Turns out the Beckhams want that date for a christening/anniversary/party (originally it was their wedding) and pays the couples mortgage off in order to get that date in that hotel.

Doing the rounds for years, still hear it and people still believe it.

Stupid people.

amdublin · 17-04-2011 01:29PM

Www.snoops.com ftw

Waste0fSpace · 17-04-2011 01:34PM

amdublin wrote: »

Www.snoops.com ftw

http://www.snopes.com

ftw

Chris P. Bacon · 17-04-2011 02:08PM

One that was doing the rounds in Waterford a few years ago,supposedly someone got a big mac in McDonalds and they caught herpes off it because some fella put his sperm in it!!

And another i heard in a few different counties,about someone getting a meal in a Chinese and they chipped there teeth but didnt think anything of it,so the next day they went to the dentist and he pulled out some sort of chip device,turns out it was a tracking chip from a greyhound or maybe not.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 17-04-2011 02:11PM

There seems to be a Chinese takeaway in every county where health inspectors found a badger in the freezer.

Frogeye · 17-04-2011 02:11PM

I heard a few stories about the Dell Factory in limerick.

Apparently there was a person referred to as "the phantom ****ter" a few years back. He'd sneak around when on the night shift leaving random deposit of internal goodness in the offices and various places.

There is also the one about the time a turd came down one assembly lines in one of the kits.......

Chris P. Bacon · 17-04-2011 02:14PM

hdowney wrote: »

so what are they actually called then?

Summerdrinks

Savage Tyrant · 17-04-2011 02:17PM

The obligatory Chinese horror story in my home town was one of the local Chinese Restaurant owners being caught up the old quarry with a shotgun and a coal sack full of crows and pigeons.

theblueirish · 17-04-2011 02:22PM

what about the guy who eats a Chinese meal and gets food posioning. He takes it to get tested at the local hospital and discovers it has 7 different perm samples in it.

I have heard that from 5 different Chinese resturants, another resturant that had five different samples of sperm so obviously thats the one I use now.

Gummy Panda · 17-04-2011 02:29PM

Dudess wrote: »

- The case of someone walking in on a girl having her flange licked by the cat (to be fair, a cat would probably like the taste... but would probably also take a chomp :eek:)

That's partially true. It was a bear, not a cat

GrahamThomas · 17-04-2011 04:53PM

I grew up in Celbridge, whenever a new Chinese takeaway opened you'd hear stories about swans going missing from the Liffey, and apparently ending up in their Sweet & Sour "Chicken". As if sneaking down to the river in the dead of night, killing a few swans then processing them for their meat on the sly would ever be the basis for a viable business plan.

I've also heard the urban legend about the babysitter putting a child to bed and being creeped out by the life-size statue of a clown in the kids room.
So she calls the kid's father to let him know that everything's grand, and asks if she can cover the clown statue with a blanket or something because she doesn't like the look of it. Father freaks out and tells her to get out of the house A.S.A.P. So the babysitter grabs the kid and pegs it to the next door neighbours, cops arrive and arrest the "clown statue", who turns out to be a Polish serial killer that had broken into the house.

My mate told me this, and swore it happened in a town a few miles up the road. He genuinely believed it, wouldn't accept that it was a well known urban legend.

Chris P. Bacon · 17-04-2011 05:00PM

GrahamThomas wrote: »

I grew up in Celbridge, whenever a new Chinese takeaway opened you'd hear stories about swans going missing from the Liffey, and apparently ending up in their Sweet & Sour "Chicken". As if sneaking down to the river in the dead of night, killing a few swans then processing them for their meat on the sly would ever be the basis for a viable business plan.

I've also heard the urban legend about the babysitter putting a child to bed and being creeped out by the life-size statue of a clown in the kids room.
So she calls the kid's father to let him know that everything's grand, and asks if she can cover the clown statue with a blanket or something because she doesn't like the look of it. Father freaks out and tells her to get out of the house A.S.A.P. So the babysitter grabs the kid and pegs it to the next door neighbours, cops arrive and arrest the "clown statue", who turns out to be a Polish serial killer that had broken into the house.

My mate told me this, and swore it happened in a town a few miles up the road. He genuinely believed it, wouldn't accept that it was a well known urban legend.

I think you got your stories mixed up,it was the Polish serial killer who killed the swans,and the Chinese clown who opened up the restaurant and called it McWanolds.

kwestfan08 · 17-04-2011 05:16PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

There seems to be a Chinese takeaway in every county where health inspectors found a badger in the freezer.

I always heard it was a cat.

GrahamThomas · 17-04-2011 05:33PM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

I think you got your stories mixed up,it was the Polish serial killer who killed the swans,and the Chinese clown who opened up the restaurant and called it McWanolds.

Genuinely LOL'ed! :pac:

Nolanger · 17-04-2011 06:37PM

The child going missing in a Midland's shopping centre so they close all the exit doors. Then they search the centre and eventually find the kid in a changing room wearing new clothes with two Eastern Europeans cutting the child's hair!

raveni · 17-04-2011 06:48PM

Woman goes on holiday, falls in love with a fella and they're together for a while, they plan a future together etc, but she has to go back home first. Before she gets on the plane to go back, he gives her a present but says not to open it til she gets on the plane. So she's on the plane and it's taken off and she opens the present to find a minature coffin in it, opening that there's a note saying something like "enjoy AIDS."

RDM_83 again · 17-04-2011 07:07PM

That Pete Doherty died from an overdose.................................... of salt!

Some times the truth is weird though like if somebody told you that a chipper in Galway that had a dead body in its freezer for years it would be pure urban legend*

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http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/11809

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