The thing about snopes is that you get emails from people claiming "I checked snopes...and it's 100% true!!!!!!" (Always with the many exclaimation points). Gah.
I will tell you this, if someone emails me something that's an urban legend, crap about any politician, actor, random celebrities, supposed sick or missing children, free anything from Bill Gates OR AOL...and it's just carbon copied, I only give them a private "this isn't true, snopes.com is a very helpful website..." once. After that, I reply to all... I figure, they've polluted dozens of in boxes with their crap, I might as well set the record straight. Or attempt to.
I get annoyed when people reply to the stuff with "omg, I don't care if snopes says it isn't true...it's good information to have". When it's not! Gah. I'
Like,
coke desolves all kinds of things.
Men abducting random women with perfume samples.
That Walt Disney's
head was frozen...
Anything about
George W. Bush or
either Clinton.
Almost everything attributed to Andy Rooney, George Carlin, Dennis Miller and Steven Wright are not in fact by any of them.
A friend forwarded
me this one in an email...and I didn't even need to send her the snopes page...lol (cause, the M&M is near here...but really, bridge tunnels are not unusual..so, I dunno why it was even interesting. lol)
Or What about the ones with the syringe in the coin returns..or the ball pit...
Genereally, if you have been forwarded it, it's probably been either verified or debunked there. Most likely debunked. Because most of the crap people foward is just that..crap.
Locally, there was someone we called "the purple lady". She was supposedly responsible for all of the telephone poles that were painted purple (partially). People claimed she wore all purple and lived in a purple house. I recall seeing the purple telephone poles when taking school field trips to Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, but I can't remember anything specific. Googling it comes up with random recollections like mine. lol
If you forward this post to twenty five people, Martha Stewert will give me a cookie.