Entries Tagged as 'Urban Legends'

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

And For God’s Sake, Don’t Flash Your Lights At A Car Driving Around With Its Headlights Off!

“gang initiation day bump car” (3/26/08)
“gang initiation bumping car and shooting” (3/26/08)
“gang initiation in nyc of bumping the car in the rear?” (3/26/08)
“bronx gang initiation car bumping” (3/26/08)
“nj gang initiation rear end” (3/26/08)
“gang initiation bump car shoot driver” (3/26/08)
“gang initiation bumps car and then kills victim” (3/26/08)
Gawd, you people are freaking out over really nothing:
Warnings [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Buried . . . Alive!

“verrazano bridge construction buried alive deaths bodies cement accident” (1/19/08)
It’s one of New York’s great urban legends:
“There is absolutely no way that someone could fall into cement and not be fished out,” proclaims Christian Meyer, a professor of civil engineering at Columbia University. First off, cement is only poured in shallow layers. Second, it has [...]