Urban myths that somehow, people still believe
Discussion
nonsequitur said:
When you hear the ice cream van's jingle they have RUN OUT OF ICE CREAM.
I've just started using that with my two boys (4+5)
I had started using the old "when you hear that siren it means the child snatcher is looking for children"
Thought that might scar them for life!
It is illegal to get drunk in a pub.
One cannot import Polish potatoes and say they are English.
Firing a cannon within 300 yds of a dwelling
Riding the bus while suffering from the Plague
Dying in the Houses of Parliament.
Causing a nuclear explosion
Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances. I like this one.
Being intoxicated in charge of a cow.
All are current law, but I would repeal the fifth personally.
One cannot import Polish potatoes and say they are English.
Firing a cannon within 300 yds of a dwelling
Riding the bus while suffering from the Plague
Dying in the Houses of Parliament.
Causing a nuclear explosion
Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances. I like this one.
Being intoxicated in charge of a cow.
All are current law, but I would repeal the fifth personally.
Some silly bint on Facebook tonight is busy 'protecting her friends' by sharing the nonsense about fake perfume sellers in supermarket car parks secretly having ether which knocks out the victim who they then rob.
Honestly, 5 seconds and three words into Google throws up this
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp
And that's even if you do buy the logic that you can knock someone out with a single sniff, and that no one would be suspicious of women suddenly falling unconscious and men rifling through their pockets.
Still, can't be too careful, share it just in case, eh girls?
Honestly, 5 seconds and three words into Google throws up this
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp
And that's even if you do buy the logic that you can knock someone out with a single sniff, and that no one would be suspicious of women suddenly falling unconscious and men rifling through their pockets.
Still, can't be too careful, share it just in case, eh girls?
More Facebook f
kwittery:
"So HIV infected needles in petrol pumps is now a thing... Wtf. Be careful... Please look before pumping up they are putting infected HIV needles In the petrol stations. Please warn every friend of yours and family members. Please share share"
Also the "Don't flash people without their lights on as they will shoot you as a gang initiation"
FB really is a great tool for fking morons to spread their idiocy far and wide..
kwittery:"So HIV infected needles in petrol pumps is now a thing... Wtf. Be careful... Please look before pumping up they are putting infected HIV needles In the petrol stations. Please warn every friend of yours and family members. Please share share"
Also the "Don't flash people without their lights on as they will shoot you as a gang initiation"
FB really is a great tool for f
king morons to spread their idiocy far and wide..silentbrown said:
Always switch off your mobile phone before refuelling.
In the whole history of mobiles, has there ever been a fire in a petrol station actually caused by someone being on their mobile; that rule about not being on your mobile on a petrol station forecourt, due to a fire risk, has always perplexed me.HTP99 said:
In the whole history of mobiles, has there ever been a fire in a petrol station actually caused by someone being on their mobile; that rule about not being on your mobile on a petrol station forecourt, due to a fire risk, has always perplexed me.
Err, no. That's why it's a myth...http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
All the petrol pumps here still have warning stickers on them, though.
silentbrown said:
HTP99 said:
In the whole history of mobiles, has there ever been a fire in a petrol station actually caused by someone being on their mobile; that rule about not being on your mobile on a petrol station forecourt, due to a fire risk, has always perplexed me.
Err, no. That's why it's a myth...http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
All the petrol pumps here still have warning stickers on them, though.
Makes me laugh, my local Shell garage has those "don't use your mobile" stickers plastered everywhere and yet you can now pay at the pump by scanning a QR code into a specific app, using your mobile!
I have seen a clip of someone opening the cover on a petrol delivery tanker while talking on the phone and there was a flash over from the fuel vapour.
So it must have been the phone that ignited the vapour right?
It couldn't possible have been static, or friction, or a spark from two metal surfaces being in contact?
No, it had to be the phone. Even though it is at ambient temperature, causes no sparks and emits nothing but radio waves.
It can give you can you cancer though. The phone that is. Not the petrol.
So it must have been the phone that ignited the vapour right?
It couldn't possible have been static, or friction, or a spark from two metal surfaces being in contact?
No, it had to be the phone. Even though it is at ambient temperature, causes no sparks and emits nothing but radio waves.
It can give you can you cancer though. The phone that is. Not the petrol.
Ki3r said:
If you are being asked to stop by a unmarked police vehicle you should get your phone out and dial 112. This was put you through to the Police as 999 does, but at the same time pinpoint your position to the phone op. Katie phoned 112 when a unmarked vehicle wanted her to stop. Because she phoned 112 they were able to pinpoint her location and stop her being attacked. Or something along those lines.
I was recently told 112 allows them to find your location by a serving Police officer. 4x4Tyke said:
The secret mobile phone game that 'trains' teenagers to undertake increasingly dangerous activities until they are instructed to do something that leads to their death in what appears to be suicide.
Oh FFS, there have been internal bulletins about this, and the head of a new cyber depart,ent was talking about it too. Edited by 4x4Tyke on Thursday 22 June 20:33
Internally screaming 'it's a hoaaaaaaax!'
Actually I've got a FB friend. Colleague in fact. Sensible guy you'd think, and he is constantly sharing utter tripe, when challenged 'better be safe than sorry'. No
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