2006-07-19 04:12:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
David s.......... I find your answer appauling in the extreme!!!!!
2006-07-19 04:16:03 · update #1
This is really embarassing but in the book 101 dalmations the dogs have the messaging system called the "twighlight barking" and for years and I mean years I thought this was how dogs communicated!
Dont even get me started on Father Christmas!
2006-07-19 05:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by Monkeyphil 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Is this a myth?
A Charlotte, NC, lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire among other things. Within a month of having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued ...and won!
In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The Judge stated, nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire, and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."
NOW THE BEST PART:
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON! With his insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
2006-07-19 11:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David S, not funny. Anyway, the one that is still going around about using a cell phone while filling your gas tank. Not possible ignite the gas vapors with a cell phone. Yet many gas pumps still have the 'no cell phone' sticker on them. This myth was exploded, pardon the pun, on Mythbusters a while back.
2006-07-19 11:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good friend at work had us all listening to the urban legend of the yucca plant.
Her friend bought a yukka plant from M&S but it shortly died so she returned it .A few days later men in protective suits called and told her to get out of the house straight away .
They found a tarantula and its eggs in her bed.
We all listened and infact I never really mentioned to anyone i'd heard it but belived it as my mate was a beliveable source. One christmas my brother got a book on Urban Legends and lo and behold there is the story .
But of course when I said to my friend all she said was she couldn't remember telling the story !!!
2006-07-19 11:18:21 · answer #4 · answered by Nutty Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend moved from England to Australia into a place where all the houses were on stilts because of spiders. After they moved in, their childrens wee sitting oncushions in the garden and they got a call from a neighbor to get into their house as fast as they could and that it was urgent. She also said to brind their bedding. She sounded reallyt panicked, so they took their bedding and moved into the neighbors house. as they looked out the window, they saw thousands of tarantula eggs all around their house. They called an exterminator. Then they saw a trail of eggs leading la he way to the nighbors house following them. It eventually led up to one of their beanbags, which had split, leaving a trail of hite "eggs" behind them...
2006-07-19 14:24:23 · answer #5 · answered by Pixy Fish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always check at snopes.com to be sure about anything that sounds fishy anymore. Mine was probably the star on the tootsie pop wrappers though.
2006-07-19 12:14:28 · answer #6 · answered by miss_bea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah, the one about the SCUBA diver found after a forest fire. Somehow the water scooper on a helicopter picked him up and dropped him on a fire.
2006-07-19 13:56:46 · answer #7 · answered by Raymond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cleaner in a hospital who kept unplugging people on life support to plug in her vacuum cleaner. its so good almost every hospital tells people it happened there(origianal story is from australia but the faqcts should'nt get in the way of a good legend
2006-07-19 11:21:45 · answer #8 · answered by onapizzadiet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one about the plane scooping up the scuba diver and dropping him into a burning forest, but he lands on the top of the tree, i really thought that was real and then mythbusters totally busted it...oh yeah and God!
2006-07-19 11:16:21 · answer #9 · answered by Alie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That Yahoo!Answers is a good place for research! Ha!
Entertainment maybe but never research!
2006-07-19 11:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by carl l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋