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<blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1940324" data-attributes="member: 9646">All urban legends have this in common (to be told by someone who swears he was a witness of what he reports). Two examples:1) Almost 20 or 25 years ago, I was with my parents and my brother and we were invited to dinner by an old (around 70 I think) and very respectable (at least rich) lady. During the dinner she came to tell us of an anecdote. It was about her husband (when he was alive) who was a doctor. The respectable lady told us an urban legend that I had already heard of twice, in very different circumstances, and of course from people she couldn't know of. (The story was a very stupid and improbable one about sexual idiocies.) Of course as I was young and my brother moreso, we weren't polite enough to let the old lady go on with her idiotic tale, of something she pretended to have witnessed. We did scream it was a lie.2) A few days ago a friend of mine tells me another urban legend (this one I remember much better: a teenager kidnapped at the Disneyland in France, who is found one week later in Arabian Emirate without some of his internal organs -liver or what not). I says to my friend this must be an urban legend, and finally he agrees this must be the case (he had heard it form someone who swore to have been witness of it...). Anyway, we come to speak about urban legends, and at the end of the discussion he pretends to know something true: of a peasant masturbating himself with a vaccum cleaner, and who got horribly wounded in the process. A story that I had heard already 15 years ago (on the radio)... This time I didn't scream that it was but a stupid lie. After all it's a friend, and don't need to waste my time arguing over that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Turanil, post: 1940324, member: 9646"] All urban legends have this in common (to be told by someone who swears he was a witness of what he reports). Two examples: 1) Almost 20 or 25 years ago, I was with my parents and my brother and we were invited to dinner by an old (around 70 I think) and very respectable (at least rich) lady. During the dinner she came to tell us of an anecdote. It was about her husband (when he was alive) who was a doctor. The respectable lady told us an urban legend that I had already heard of twice, in very different circumstances, and of course from people she couldn't know of. (The story was a very stupid and improbable one about sexual idiocies.) Of course as I was young and my brother moreso, we weren't polite enough to let the old lady go on with her idiotic tale, of something she pretended to have witnessed. We did scream it was a lie. 2) A few days ago a friend of mine tells me another urban legend (this one I remember much better: a teenager kidnapped at the Disneyland in France, who is found one week later in Arabian Emirate without some of his internal organs -liver or what not). I says to my friend this must be an urban legend, and finally he agrees this must be the case (he had heard it form someone who swore to have been witness of it...). Anyway, we come to speak about urban legends, and at the end of the discussion he pretends to know something true: of a peasant masturbating himself with a vaccum cleaner, and who got horribly wounded in the process. A story that I had heard already 15 years ago (on the radio)... This time I didn't scream that it was but a stupid lie. After all it's a friend, and don't need to waste my time arguing over that. [/QUOTE]

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