Real life groom's revenge.

[Tewligan]

Blast you, Hypersmurf! That particular urban legend sounded familiar, and I was just about to zip over to Snopes when I saw you beat me to the punch. You win this one...

 

[Angcuru]

An interesting little anecdote, as annoying as it may be. An even worse reaction to an already bad situation.

In Texas (and Early Colonial America) it used to be legal to kill your wife if you caught her sleeping around. <--- not an urban myth.

 

[Ashwyn]

Blast you, Hypersmurf! That particular urban legend sounded familiar, and I was just about to zip over to Snopes when I saw you beat me to the punch. You win this one...

And since you posted before I did, you would have beaten me had Hypersmurf not posted it first, so blast you too!

 

[Dirigible]

Why do you have to go around debunking myths like this? *sniff* They're so fun to hear. And fun to tell your friends.

Gotta agree. There's no reason it couldn't be true.

 

[Pielorinho]

Heh. Urban legend, but I had a run-in with something not too far removed from it. Or at least, I think I did.

Once, long ago, in my misspent youth, I tried the online dating thing. One woman who I exchanged a few emails with turned out to be, as a friendly ex-girlfriend called her, "The Swirling Vortex of Doom."

After we'd exchanged a few emails, I called her up. That's when I found out that:
1) She was living with her parents,
2) After having recently tried to commit suicide again,
3) Because two months ago, her fiance had left her stranded at the altar,
4) Because he'd been oversleeping,
5) In bed with the best man.

Perhaps I'm a bad person, but I ran away really fast.

I hope that after all these years, she can laugh about it.

Perhaps I'm a rotten person, but I can.

Daniel

 

[Piratecat]

Well, it's not like he cheated on her with another woman.

 

[Zimri]

Gotta agree. There's no reason it couldn't be true.

Who said urban legends have to be false

Q: Why do you have some true stories listed as "urban legends"?

A: An "urban legend" is not the same thing as a "fictional tale" or an "apocryphal anecdote," although many people mistakenly use the term in that sense (e.g., "That's not true; it's just an urban legend!"). A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and re-told with differing details (or exists in multiple versions), and is said to be true. Whether or not the events described in the tale ever actually occurred is completely irrelevant to its classification as an urban legend.

For example, the tale about a student who mistakes a math problem thought to be unsolvable for a homework assignment and solves it is an urban legend, even though something very similar did once happen in real life. The tale is still an urban legend, however, because over the years many of its details (i.e., when it happened, where it happened, the identity of the student, the reaction of the student's instructor) have changed as it has spread.

Q: I know an urban legend that really happened, but your site doesn't list it as true (or vice-versa). Why not?

There are several reasons why this might be so:


We rate an urban legend as "true" when there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the legend began with a real-life event. If the actions described in an urban legend play out in real life after the legend has begun circulating, that is not an example of what we consider a "true" urban legend -- it is a phenomenon known as "ostension" (and when someone deliberately enacts the events described by an urban legend, that is known as "pseudo-ostension").
Many urban legends describe events so general and plausible that they might very well have happened to somebody, somewhere, sometime. But since seldom can a legend's origins be traced to a specific, identifiable occurrence, we rarely categorize them as "true."


Many of the texts we discuss contain a mixture of truth, falsity, and exaggeration which cannot be accurately described by a single "True" or "False" rating. Therefore, our rating may be based upon what we have chosen as the single most important aspect of the text under discussion, which is summarized in the statement made after the "Claim:" heading at the top of the page. It is important to make note of the wording of that claim, since that is the statement to which our truth rating applies.

Many legends present events that may have taken place in real life only a few times (or once, or even never) as if they were frequent, everyday occurrences, and we make a distinction between "This once happened" and "This is a common, on-going occurrence." For example, many people have read warnings about the dangers posed by kidnappers who allegedly abduct children at malls or amusement parks by taking their victims into bathrooms, drugging them, cutting and dyeing their hair, changing their clothing, and smuggling them out exits disguised as the opposite sex. This legend is classified as false because we have found no credible evidence that a kidnapping has ever been pulled off using this scheme. Even if we did uncover evidence that such a kidnapping once took place, however, we would still classify the legend as false, because an essential feature of the legend is a warning that this type of kidnapping is a regular occurrence, and one real-life instance does not constitute a regular occurrence.

From the snopes.com faq

 

[Pielorinho]

Well, it's not like he cheated on her with another woman.

See, that's why I was single in the first place: it never occurred to me to offer her that comfort.

Daniel

 

[sellars]

bur it DOES make a nice story, doesn't it

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Maybe I'm weird, but I think if stuff like this actually DOES happen, it's really childish and just makes the groom look no better than the cheating bride.

And she can probably find some sort of privacy law , sue him for doing something like this, call it emotional distress and get the $32,000 back and then some.