To not point out story is an urban legend?

What happened at Edinburgh zoo ??
I used to know the Penguin Keeper .😃

Guinea pig I read.
I got flung out of, well asked to leave, the Library as I laughed so much reading this story.

Also, how may times have I heard about the young lad enjoying a distraction free wank with his headphones/airpods in and when he finishes he sees a fresh brew next to his bed that his mum must've left for him!

Wasn't there a TV advert based around that exact deeply embarrassing scenario? I'm thinking Irn Bru, possibly?

THANK YOU!!!! That's bringing the memories back, now - off to re-read it!

I remember a penguin being stolen from it's enclosure in Belfast zoo and thrown to the lions. Several others were assaulted.

I think in some places it was red too!

It must have started as one of those "ice cream van has run out of ice cream" stories perpetrated by parents who were trying to get their kids to behave! 😆

It was purple in the water when you peed where I was!

I realised it couldn’t be true when I had babies in swim nappies and discovered they only contain the poo, anything liquid runs right out. Pools would be full of babies surrounded by clouds of purple (blue)!

Thank you!

I don't know why she singled me out

I mean, literally everything. The entire thread is about stories like this example.

Oh my goodness - that's where I first read it too - probably in the 1970s!

Everyone was discussing different urban legends they'd heard?
Like, the whole thread?
I thought it was quite a fun thread actually and we were swapping stories.
Sorry you felt the need to be aggressive.

What does that have to do with with post????

This actually happened at a zoo near me now closed down. A staff member stole two penguins and sold them for £10k.

FOUND IT @AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf!! From 2011 🙀

Was sat on the train and a woman got on with a penguin

Sat on the train and a woman comes racing up with a bundle under her arm. Sits down with this thing wrapped in a jumper which is sort of growling and hissing. The guard comes over for her money and she tells him she's got a penguin and she's taking it to the zoo which is at the next stop.
Guard looks a bit closer at the bird and points out that its a guillimot not a penguin. I'm now wetting myself with laughter. The woman asks the guard if the guillimot would have escaped from the zoo. The guard tells her its a wild bird and to go and put it back on the beach. She'd tied it's beak up and everything with a shoelace!!!!
I hope the poor bird is OK after been scooped up by a barmy OAP but it was so funny.

The family who are on a day out at the beach, find a dog swimming and take him in their to the vets. .. it's a giant rat.

almost happened, was a wolf. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924

@AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf i think you’re thinking of the classic where a poster thought she’d found a penguin on the beach in the UK, then took it on the bus to the zoo. Something like that anyway. It wasn’t a penguin but a very puzzled sea bird!!

I’ll see if I can find it.

Schools v schools (secondary) inviting people to fight pupils from other schools (so some schools were red and some blue and they were told to pit against each other) apparently scoring points depending on what damage they did. My dc school notified parents about it and there were some arsehole kids who tried to go through with it from various schools but they didn’t get very far and it has kind of died a death - so not really an urban myth

I've also just remembered "humans on average eat about five spiders after they crawl into their mouths when they're asleep"
Believed that one as a kid, especially since a friend in year 7 told me her mum had seen it happen to her.

But on reflection, no species is going to have survived that long if it's stupid enough to get itself eaten by something that's not even awake 🤣

hahahah Im in my 40's and remember that one. I still thought it was true.lol

Ooh and the one with Neil Armstrong and the blow job

I am a similar age and remember this so clearly. It is the sole reason I have never eaten a KFC in my entire life.

Have just RTFT. Great thread, bringing up some old memories and some stories I've never heard before.

A couple I'm surprised haven't been mentioned:

• The police raiding Mick Jagger's house to find him eating a mars bar out of Marianne Faithful's vajayjay

• Swimming pool water having a chemical in it that makes it turn blue if you wee in the water. 100% believed this until Stephen Fry told everyone QI that it's an Urban Myth

I know two people, who are neither prone to lying nor to flights of fancy, who both insist that they were on a school trip to Edinburgh Zoo where this happened. These people do not know each other. One was a teacher who said it happened in the 1980s, and the other a youth worker who said it happened in the 1990s. Trips would have come from different towns. Also both these people told me about this in the early 2000s, so before anything went 'viral' (and the teacher still isn't online much anyway). My gut tells me that they must be mistaken, but they both insist it happened. It's very odd.

God the semen ones are far reaching. I first heard it in my early teens and it was food poisoning after an indian lead to 7 different types of semen found in stomach. Around a decade later someone else started telling me the same story, this time the woman had died and they found 27 different types of jizzz during the post-mortem 🤨😅

Also, how may times have I heard about the young lad enjoying a distraction free wank with his headphones/airpods in and when he finishes he sees a fresh brew next to his bed that his mum must've left for him!

What is red vs blue schools?