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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?

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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.

Gandhi

Custardpi wrote: »

The singer Ricky Martin was apparently hiding in the closet

This part turned out to be true, no?

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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/

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

curlzy

Yeah heard the free buggies from SW LOADS of times!

Duff

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

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

solomafioso

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