SNOPES.COM An urban legend research source
Did that couple on the back country road really find a bloody hook on the car door handle? http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/hook.asp
Can pop rocks and Coke make your stomach blow up?http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.asp
Did a big alligator eat people stranded in New Orleans after Katrina?http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/crocodile.asp
Is it true that 70% of the women giving birth at Parkland Hospital are illegal immigrants?http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
Did Starbucks refuse coffee to U.S. soldiers?
Did a woman die of an unknown nest of spiders in her beehive?
Can the copper in a penny ease a bee sting?
Did a guy in Florida really kill a 1,100 lb. hog?
Chances are if you have received it in an email, it is on Snopes.com.
Happy Fact Finding!
~Christy
1 comment:
When I get *those* emails, I sometimes just reply with a link to the approprite snopes.com page.
If I'm feeling particularly ornery, I say something to the effect of, "never forward any email without checking it out on snopes.com", or "you are now on my 'blocked email' list"
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