What is your favorite urban legend. I like the one where a scuba diver

in a lake gets scouped up in a lake by a firefighting plane... and then ends up dumped on top of a moutain. LOL!Went aroud North America in the early 1990s. Mordecai Richler immortalized it in a novel.

Turned out it was staged... the already-dead victim was stuffed into a wetsuit and scuba gear and placed out in the desert where wildfires were being fought. The tank was faulty, with an inoperative pressure-relief valve.

The body was caught up in a wildfire, the tank built up pressure, and when the valve burst, launched the victim up into a tree, wetsuit and all.

oh wait, that was real.

I liked it even better after that discovery!

We were doing some work at my grandma's house and we looked up and couldn't figure out what we were seeing.

I thought maybe it was some kind of advertising stunt.

Not soon after we heard the news on the radio.

Alice Cooper was Mr. Greenjeans' son.

That sounds like one that Alice himself would start. :rofl:

Lady gets home to find her dog choking. Rushes him to vet.
Vet digs a human finger out of dog's throat.
Cops find burglar bleeding in closet.
barumph-bump

Since I worked at a garden center for about 20 years from the mid/late 80s to the mid/late 00's, I actually got to hear this one from a couple of customers -- it was always someone they knew or knew of, who had bought a large cactus somewhere (usually when traveling to the SW), brought it home, and one day, it began to pulsate or "breath" -- next thing they knew, it ruptured and all kinds of giant, deadly spiders ran out.

Biologically impossible, as Snopes points out. What amazed me was that people believed this -- I had one pretty regular customer that wanted no part of cactus or anything else with a large, fleshy stem or trunk that could "hide spiders".

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cactus.asp

As a corollary to this one, I was always amused at the number of people who would buy a plant, or be given a plant, and then call us all freaked out because there were "bug eggs" or "snail eggs" in the soil -- they were fine after I told them (which got old after a couple of hundred times) that it was just Osmocote time-release fertilizer pellets.

This actually happened to me: we sold a customer a bale of pine straw. (Southern yellow pine trees shed a LOT of their needles in the fall; people gather them up, bale them, advertise them as "pine straw" and sell them as landscaping mulch.) About an hour later he came back with the pine straw. "I don't want this bale. It has a rattlesnake in it." He killed the snake with a shovel before he returned it, but we got that part back too.

Snakes often get picked up with the hay and chopped up in the baler. With the horse hay it can be a serious problem since the blood and meat can cause botulism poisoning if the horses are desperate enough to eat the contaminated parts.

I dumpster-dived a large (8') palm tree and immediately repotted it, making sure I washed all the "bug eggs" out of the roots.
Somebody over-fertilized the plant, there were HANDFULS of the little pellets in there.

First time I had ever seen Osmocote.

Dancing cacti that explode with deadly spiders?

That one always astonishes me.