MODERN URBAN MYTHS

Wilfredo Fernandes

Though the vast majority of urban tales are pure invention,

a handful does turn out to be based on real incidents.

Spiders in your Yucca plant

A woman buys a Yucca plant for her apartment and gives it pride of place next to
her bed. When she wakes the next morning hundreds of baby
tarantula spiders have emerged from the plant and covered her bed.

Nasty Burglars
A family find their home burgled one day. They are so upset that they decide to
take a holiday. They return from their holiday, and send the film from their camera to
be developed. When the pictures are returned, they find that the first few were
taken by the burglars.

Lethal Payphones
There are payphones in your neighbourhood that either have poisons or drugs on
the keys that will kill you when you make a call; or have HIV infected needles in the
coin return slot that will scratch you when you take your change.

The Car With Its Lights Out

A man is driving along late at night. He sees a car coming in the other
directionwithout its lights on. He flashes his own lights at the car to remind the
other driverto put their lights on. The other car is being driven by a gang. The gang
are waiting to shoot the first person who flashes their lights at them.

Death From Above

There was a person who was mysteriously killed while walking along a street.
Theautopsy revealed that he had been killed by a solid object falling from above –
a piece of frozen human waste ejected from an aeroplane flying at 10,000 metres.