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Razorblades/stickers- what other urban myths do you remember?

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HamsterToast · 20/09/2018 14:29

Little bit OT but the whole stickers/razorblades thing made me think of other scares:

Anyone old enough to remember glass in nerds?

Eating more than 5 Pushpops would give you cancer?

Eating peanuts and drinking lemonade while hanging upside down results in instant death?

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gilchrist168 · 20/09/2018 21:24

Purple Aki
He's no urban myth.
One cunning sexual predator, and still about. Angry
He scared one young man so much that he ran under a train and was killed.
Fucking hell, I thought better of the people posting that upthread.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinwale_Arobieke

HaroldsSocalledBluetits · 20/09/2018 21:11

Dingdong I remember the aids needles one. In our version the needle was accompanied by a note saying "welcome to AIDS".

CigarsofthePharoahs · 20/09/2018 21:00

There was a silly FB one recently, warning people that during the spate of very hot weather, not to fill your petrol tank all the way up as the heat would cause the tank to explode.
Er no. Not true.

AspieAndProud · 20/09/2018 19:14

But before my time but the Leprechaun scare in Liverpool:

www.liverpoolpicturebook.com/2015/10/LiverpoolLeprechauns.html?m=1

JustfiedandAncient · 20/09/2018 19:01

Eating blue ice pops will make you sterile 😂

CrackpotsArePots · 20/09/2018 18:48

Green Shield stamps ending up in wageena during smear after quick trip to the toilet and only grotty tissue from bottom of handbag to be found for wipage.... Except this definitely happened to my friend's mums

numberseven · 20/09/2018 18:31

The vanishing hitchhiker.

HotRocker · 20/09/2018 18:16

McDonalds gave money to the IRA.

placemats · 20/09/2018 17:51

Moving statues in Ireland. A prime example of social contagion. Some experts people put it down to eating too much cheese!

I remember the furore over fake transfers. My mother banned them from the house.

Lazypoolday · 20/09/2018 17:31

Those fake tattoo/transfer things for kids being soaked in drugs and put back on the shelves

nauticant · 20/09/2018 17:29

eating then swimming = death

silentcrow · 20/09/2018 17:25

Purple Aki!

Good god, there's a name I haven't heard in a long while. Shock

BettyDuMonde · 20/09/2018 17:14

(Also turned out to be real )

BettyDuMonde · 20/09/2018 17:13

Purple Aki!

PurpleAndTurquoise · 20/09/2018 17:06

Needles in strawberries. Not a myth. Happening now in Oz

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-45584140

exLtEveDallas · 20/09/2018 17:05

Glittery fanjo for a smear test.
Putting PINs in backwards to summon the police.
Razorblades in apples.
KFC growing genetically modified featherless chickens

Rebecca36 · 20/09/2018 17:04

Never heard of glass in nerds nor pushpops but I imagine if you ate peanuts, drank lemonade and stood on your head you might have some digestive problems.

Mobile phones give you brain tumours.
Living near an electricity pylon causes depression.

VickyEadie · 20/09/2018 17:02

There's a woman I know on Facebook (via a shared interest group we both belong to) who is forever posting memes and I spend half my time on there telling her they're urban myths.

One that affected me personally, however came up on an episode of 'House', in which it was realised that a young man could not be his parents' son because he had a cleft chin dimple and neither of them did.

My partner said I went absolutely ghostly white on hearing this - I have one of these dimples but neither of my parents did - and hurtled to the laptop to look it up. Turned out to be bollocks.

The hilarious postscript is that I look half like my mother and half like my father - there is no doubting that both were my biological parents.

mikapatika · 20/09/2018 17:01

Cysts in McDonald’s burgers

dingdongdigeridoo · 20/09/2018 17:00

People putting AIDS infected needles in cinema/bus seats so they poke you when you sit down, giving you the disease.

Rubyslippers7780 · 20/09/2018 16:57

Woman driving home at night and there is a fallen tree over the road. She gets out car to move the branch meanwhile an escaped loonie gets in the back seat of her car....

CecilyNeville · 20/09/2018 16:54

Razorblades in flumes

Oh, I've just realised that the razor blades in the waterslides at Richmond that DEFINITELY HAPPENED when I was a child, may not have actually happened...

WhatTheWatersShowedMe · 20/09/2018 16:52

If you say “Women don’t have penises” three times in the mirror Dr Hardplop manifests and doxxes you.

LurkingWaspi · 20/09/2018 16:48

If you don't eat your vegetables, Owen Jones will block you on Twitter when you grow up.

LangCleg · 20/09/2018 15:20

They flush your head in the toilet on your birthday at "big school".