Urban myths

[Dusty Dan]

What are some urban myths you heard growing up?

My friend just reminded me of two that went around school when I was a teenager.

The first one is a woman who has a lobster lay eggs in her fanny. I can't remember if she was just swimming or if she was abusing the lobster.

The other one is the woman who gets a new boyfriend, goes to the doctor with an STI and the doctor says "you can only get this disease from dead people" implying her new boyfriend's a necrophile.

 

[Patrick O'Neal]

That Obama would bring change!

 

[TorpidSloth]

Nerds candy occasionally contained pieces of glass.

 

[Queefer Sutherland]

Women are funny.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

My parents used to get mad at me for watching this shitty Zenith TV in my bedroom late at night and would always tell me that watching the tv would give me serious headaches if I did it after bedtime.

 

[Guest]

Predates my era but the one that "if you jerk off, you'll grow hair on your palms" cracks me up.

There was a book called "The Big Book of Urban Legends" that they had in the Young Adult (weird pedo-y term now that I think about it) section at the library that had some crazy stories kids shouldn't be reading about illustrated in an R. Crumb style. Stuff like:

A couple goes to a motel for their anniversary and returns the following year to find the X-rated movie channel was showing footage of them having sex in that room the previous year.

A guy gets seduced by a woman and wakes up with "Welcome to the AIDS Club" written on the mirror.

Another guy gets seduced and drugged only to wake up in a bathtub filled with ice with some of his organs missing.

Pretty wild they had that in a section for middle schoolers.

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

Sugar makes you hyper, eating fat makes you fat

 

[Not bad]

I heard the Tucker Max shit story about my friend's big brother and some girl. There were some variations, but it was pretty much the same.

 

[Easily_Remembered]

The gang member initiation one, where gang members would drive around with their headlights off, and whoever flashed their headlights at them to warn them would be killed as a part of gang initiation.

 

[captain_kamala]

The gang member initiation one, where gang members would drive around with their headlights off, and whoever flashed their headlights at them to warn them would be killed as a part of gang initiation.

Ugh I worked with a chick whose husband was in the nypd and she'd always warn us that they had to go around killing random people on Halloween and shit. They sincerely believe that

Also any my mom's friend is a teacher and she had kids with dumb names in her class. So racist

 

[Dusty Dan]

The gang member initiation one, where gang members would drive around with their headlights off, and whoever flashed their headlights at them to warn them would be killed as a part of gang initiation.

I heard that too, but we were rural enough for it to just be a generic crazy person rather than a gang member.

 

[captain_kamala]

I heard that too, but we were rural enough for it to just be a generic crazy person rather than a gang member.

I lived in northern Colorado and the police would have events educating parents about the non existent gang threat. My mom went to one and learned that the 3d S thing kids drew in the 90s was a gang sign. She was all concerned about me.

 

[RealTonySchiavone]

Also any my mom's friend is a teacher and she had kids with dumb names in her class. So racist

I remember this one, I heard about Chando Lear, Lemonjelo, Orangjelo and Air Wrecka.

 

[DanFielding]

That some senior at my high school went to a hooker. She tied him to a chair then some guy in a Batman costume fucked him in the ass.

 

[The Sue Deal]

2012 was the big one. I remember looking out the window all day waiting for the world to end. Pretty disappointing when it didnt to be honest witcha

 

[StlakerFatti]

in my youth i remember urban myths that jews were NOT poisoning the water supply and NOT crucifying children on Passover to bake their blood into Matzo balls.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

My buddy would let this like grade 8 kid hang out at his place when we were in highschool. It was a weird situation. His mom was like "hanging out with you guys will toughen him up" but we were like getting the kid high and drunk and playing pranks on him that could have/did seriously hurt him.

Anyways, we convinced him that there was like a Jeepers Creepers monster called The Roofer that we'd all seen and you had to run away from him backwards and face him or he'd swoop down and attack you with a hammer. He actually bought it because he was dumb as shit and he'd always make someone walk him home if it was dark because he was like piss-his-pants afraid that The Roofer was going to get him. My one psychotic buddy who is dead now started climbing up on people's roofs with a trench coat and a hammer on the way back to the kid's house every time and whoever was walking him home would point him out and flip out and the kid would run backwards as fast as he could and eat shit every time, screaming at the top of his lungs. It actually became a problem and neighbours were calling the cops. This kid would always tell everyone "The Roofer is real! We've all seen him! He's not human!" And the cops/neighbours would be like "THOSE GODDAMN HILLBILLY SHIT KIDS ARE FUCKING WITH YOU, IDIOT!!"

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

Anyways, we convinced him that there was like a Jeepers Creepers monster called

Victor Salva

 

[fusciasomething]

I lived in northern Colorado and the police would have events educating parents about the non existent gang threat. My mom went to one and learned that the 3d S thing kids drew in the 90s was a gang sign. She was all concerned about me.

I forget, were you in Greeley?

 

[JamesJCrowe]

We were told that if you ran into the chinese food place & yelled "Dragon noodle", the chinaman chef would chase you with a meat cleaver. we did it once & ran, but there was no chinaman. probably all mexicans working there anyway.