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

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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?

There's a documentary on Netflix about urban myths that inspired horror films that includes the poison sweets supposedly handed out to kids on Halloween. It was a huge scare in the US. The only actual case was a father who poisoned his own kids and then faked the Stranger Danger story.

Think I said this before on here, but wasn't there a razorblade myth epidemic in the late 80s

Razorblades in apples
Razorblades in flumes (aka big slides at the waterpark)

"Touching a dandelion will make you piss yourself"

That was a classic.

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

Cysts in McDonald’s burgers

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.

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.

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

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

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

Purple Aki!

(Also turned out to be real )

Purple Aki!

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

eating then swimming = death

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

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.

McDonalds gave money to the IRA.

The vanishing hitchhiker.

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

Eating blue ice pops will make you sterile 😂

But before my time but the Leprechaun scare in Liverpool:

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