Mexican Urban Legend:
The Stuffed Girl
A couple of Colombians arrive at the airport of Mexico City carrying a sleeping 5 year old girl. They are taking a flight to Miami. Mexican authorities get suspicious that the sleeping girl seems too quiet. They arrest the Colombians and find out they had kidnapped the girl, took away her organs and filled the entrails with cocaine.
The legeend says the news never got to the public due to pressure from Colombian authorities and fear of an Anti-Colombian popular backlash.
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's
(sent to me because I forwarded an e-mail to five other people,
celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when
I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering
from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken
(which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual
chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them
change their name to KFC).
Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his
bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got
out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a
note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his
phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on
his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail
entitled "Join
the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer
programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in
which all of the computers get together and distribute the $250.00
Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's
true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF,
who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I
would forward the e-mail
to everyone I know.)
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his
missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press
#90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at
the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got
jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that
said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few
blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of
cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send
him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a
nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of
them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it
and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for
10 people only you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer
than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on
the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be
helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a
gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will
receive 4 green M&Ms - if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble
will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck:
you will get sick from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your
spouse/mate will develop a skin rash from using the antiperspirant which
clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax
on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
I always liked the one about the alligators in the New York Sewer system!
Geez! Well, life's like that, isn't it?
It used to be legend that Kentucky Fried changed to KFC to avoid the unhealthy connotation of the word fried. Thank god for snopes!
LarryBS, FINALLY, something I'm going to actually forward to the zillion people who send me crap...
It's great!
Phoenix are you sure about the alligators not being in the NYC sewers?
Sorry it ended up so spaced apart, looked fine before I submitted it.
AND YOU THINK You're HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK !!
Shark Attack
That is what you get for trying to rescue whales which are really sharks..... and just HOW did he think he was gonna get that thing in the helicopter, even if it WAS a whale?
I heard that the reason Kentucky Fried Chicken changed names to KFC was become some smart arse realised that "kentucky fried chicken" was not copyrighted.He quickly did so and demanded a fortune because they were using HIS copyrighted name.They figured that changing to KFC would be cheaper!!
This MUST be another urban legend.
And KFC is probably copyrighted folks so don´t get any smart ideas.
Most recent one. Person X finds wallet returns it to owner who is either Jewish or Muslim. In conversation it comes up that Person X works at the World Trade Centre. 'My friend, don't go to work tomorrow!!'. Of course 'today' is Sept 10.
We have even had this one turning up with the same scenario for malls in the Western Suburbs of Sydney (where there are the biggest clusters of ME migrants).
A friend of mine showed me this web page the other day and I spent about 4 hours reading these. Not sure I have a favorite, though a few are better than others. "Tales from Staten Island's abandoned monastery" is a pretty good one, pretty creepy. Anyway the link..
http://www.urbanlegends.com/legends/
The PA Governor's Office has been besieged by callers insisting that Democrat, Ed Rendell has decreed that no absentee ballots will be counted.
They were informed of this outrage by Conservative Talk Show Hosts.
The reality is that PA will not mail out new absentee ballots with Nader's name removed. Across the state, county courthouses are working overtime to process new voter registrations.
The PA courts agreed that under the circumstances there was no time to print and mail new ballots.
Urban Legends are born every minute.
about 1979 OMNI magazine (a science fiction/fact magazine), ran a contest to create an urban legend, the winner was a submission stating that video games in arcades, specially ones involving flying and shooting, had cameras in them that recorded the faces of kids with the highest scores, this info was then passed on to the military so that they would be drafted or actively rectuited in future wars
