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From:  Anne Murphy (anya715@att.net)
 
Sent:  2002-04-08
 
 
Subject:  Re: Hoaxes and Urban Legends
 
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Message:  >Has anyone else found some hoaxes or legends on the Internet?

Have a question? I heard on the news and I cannot find anything about it on the Internet.
We have all heard the legend about the man who hits someone with his car kills them and wakes up the next morning in a drunken stupor and realises what has happened. I never believed it...possible yes...likely no.
However, this one story was about a girl who on a high of Extascy hit a man and he became attached to her fender. She was oblivious and he was still alive. He stayed there for 2 days trapped with broken bones...and she was afraid and did not know what to do. She left him there and he died.
Is this a twist on an urban legend or is it legit?
I have heard most legends but not that one before.
 
 
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From:  Anne Murphy (anya715@att.net)
 
Sent:  2002-04-09
 
 
Subject:  Re: Hoaxes and Urban Legends
 
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Message:  Do we allow ourselves to believe these internet myths? I mean as a college senior, who was writing her thesis, part of me wanted to believe that Bill Gates would pay for me to take a vacation or give me $10,000. I have also been guilty of forwarding chains with a disclaimer that reads: SORRY! DELETE! because an iota of me feared that bad luck would find me.
What amazes me are all the stories about innocent childhood images, primarily Disney. There are some sick individuals in this world who take advantage of or manipulate wholesome images. Is it because they can't allow themselves to believe that there can be something good? Or are they just bored and have to share a story that they heard about something that happened to a friend of a friend of theirs? Remember most of these Legends & Myths we are finding didn't start on the Internet but are now finding there way thereand spreading themselves to a new group of people. Unfortunately, I was the superstitutious and gullable person who doesn't want to risk a lifetime of bad luck or be the reason that little Ben doesn't get his death bed wish of a never-ending email chain...just in case. Now if it's blocking my account it's deleted.