Urban Legend - True or False???

[Micah]

I just read about the 2 elders kicking a dog in the face to shut it up, and someone mentioned that it was an urban legend.

I for one, whether it's true or not, LOVE URBAN LEGENDS!!!! Does anyone know more???

The biggest one I know, and my mom said we were in the meeting when it happened, yet I was 5 and don't remember it. The smurf who got up and ran out of the hall, the boy followed, mom followed, then elders. Smurf stopped in middle of parking lot, threw the soccer ball it held and broke mom's leg. Smurf ran off and never heard from again.

These stories are always entertaining and intriguing. Anyone know any others???

[leannsmarie]

Oh wow. I never heard the one about kicking a dog but I did hear about the smurf doll legend. That one I heard about in 1987 when I attended a KH in Alamogordo, NM. I guess that story made the rounds.

I wish I could recall if I had heard any others.

[leannsmarie]

I take that back. I've heard the one below but I found a version of it online for you.

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A sister (working by herself for some reason), knocks on the door of a killer or rapist to offer the good news. She makes her presentation and talks for some time with the man, gives him some literature and leaves. As she is leaving, a patrol car passes by the house and recognizes the man as a suspect they have been looking for. The officers jump out and arrest the man on the spot. As they are on their way to the precinct, one officer asks the man why he didn't attack the woman who was talking to him.

The man's reply........?

"How could I when she had those two large men standing there with here!"

[Micah]

I take that back. I've heard the one below but I found a version of it online for you.

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A sister (working by herself for some reason), knocks on the door of a killer or rapist to offer the good news. She makes her presentation and talks for some time with the man, gives him some literature and leaves. As she is leaving, a patrol car passes by the house and recognizes the man as a suspect they have been looking for. The officers jump out and arrest the man on the spot. As they are on their way to the precinct, one officer asks the man why he didn't attack the woman who was talking to him.

The man's reply........?

"How could I when she had those two large men standing there with here!"

Now that I know the sister it happened to. The guy was raping Avon ladies going door to door.

[Shawnster]

Here's another.

A young man was getting ready to graduate from school. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.

Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold. Angry, he rose his voice to his father and said "with all your money, you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realised his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day.

Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Matt. 7:11, "And if ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask Him?"

As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because we can't see past our own desires?

I heard a variation of this legend AT THE CONVENTION!!!

http://www.snopes.com/religion/gradgift.asp

[campanula]

I take that back. I've heard the one below but I found a version of it online for you.

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A sister (working by herself for some reason), knocks on the door of a killer or rapist to offer the good news. She makes her presentation and talks for some time with the man, gives him some literature and leaves. As she is leaving, a patrol car passes by the house and recognizes the man as a suspect they have been looking for. The officers jump out and arrest the man on the spot. As they are on their way to the precinct, one officer asks the man why he didn't attack the woman who was talking to him.

The man's reply........?

"How could I when she had those two large men standing there with here!"

Exactly the same legend I've heard here in Ukraine ... Small world...

[surfergirl]

I just read about the 2 elders kicking a dog in the face to shut it up, and someone mentioned that it was an urban legend.

I for one, whether it's true or not, LOVE URBAN LEGENDS!!!! Does anyone know more???

The biggest one I know, and my mom said we were in the meeting when it happened, yet I was 5 and don't remember it. The smurf who got up and ran out of the hall, the boy followed, mom followed, then elders. Smurf stopped in middle of parking lot, threw the soccer ball it held and broke mom's leg. Smurf ran off and never heard from again.

These stories are always entertaining and intriguing. Anyone know any others???

well mine is not preaching experiences

but of the local beaches at Cronulla, there is a Shark Island a few good metres from the shore and well some friends decided to as a bet to swim to the Island and back to the shore they did. Next day I heard as is a legend around Cronulla that there was a sighting of a white pointer, this Island is notorious for white pointers, bronzey's and other breeds. it is a breeding ground. but this white point comes around when the surfers go out early in the am, and has scared quite a few. but he is blind so apparently he is ok.

another time I was camping place called Huskinson. my Dad and my uncle both have boats and my uncle had made a board for towing

so my Bro and I were taking it in turns having lots of fun. very deep waters and near by is a penguin Island. we got home turned on the news

and some Tigers and bronze whalers had been circling near by that same day:omg:

[surfergirl]

I remembered another kinda legendary myth type story.

Out the back of the Blue Mountains there is suppose to be maybe a black panther he is said to have escaped a zoo back in the early 60's.

There was a Zoo or a circus once held out near the Mountains and there have been sightings of him between The Blue Mountains and farther into the valleys

of Blackheath and other surrounding areas through the Southern Dividing Ranges of a big black cat. one time we went bush walking through Perry's a beautiful 5 and a half total, very energetic walk. and my Dad reckon he saw this cats foot prints, bigger than a wombat or a goanna, other people we have spoken

to have heard of the same panther. Sometimes there is a mention in the News of his sighting..

[purplefan]

One that floats around at the district conventions is About a woman who is about to be baptised,and as she stands up to answer the Questions by the public

speaker, she notices her Long lost Brother stand up also to get baptised.

This one floats around in various forms but it is always the same.

I wonder how these stories get started and by whom?

[Hallett 82]

In the 1980's there was a newspaper article about a JW family from Queensland who had a child go missing at Disneyland and never found.

Nobody ever found out who or what that was about and 2 COs from Qld looked into it and found it was a false story. Nobody was sure why or how such rubbish starts.

[campanula]

Here is another one I've heard.

Two brothers went to the door to door ministry.

They both were some kind of big men and one of them was a boxer in the past and just became an unbaptized publisher.

Well, it was evening time - the best time for door to door witnessing, but it was a little too dark already and there was no electricity at the doors.

Anyway, the new brother started his first presentation and said: "You do not want to die, do you?"

The terrified householder replied: "No, I don't... " Then brother said :"Read these magazines and you will survive".

The magazines were rapidly taken and the brother considered this as his first success.

After that his partner gave him a very polite advise to change his presentation a little bit to not scare householders and so he did.

At the next door he said: "Do you want to live, don't you?"....

Did I say they were Russians?

[purplefan]

Brother i heard this story hear in Belfast! it certainly gets around.

what worries me is the Brother who told it, said He know the sister personally.

It funny how these stories take off and do the rounds. They become more believable

everytime you hear it.

I take that back. I've heard the one below but I found a version of it online for you.

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A sister (working by herself for some reason), knocks on the door of a killer or rapist to offer the good news. She makes her presentation and talks for some time with the man, gives him some literature and leaves. As she is leaving, a patrol car passes by the house and recognizes the man as a suspect they have been looking for. The officers jump out and arrest the man on the spot. As they are on their way to the precinct, one officer asks the man why he didn't attack the woman who was talking to him.

The man's reply........?

"How could I when she had those two large men standing there with here!"

Now that I know the sister it happened to. The guy was raping Avon ladies going door to door.

[purplefan]

i love these stories. Who starts them i wonder?

Here is another one I've heard.

Two brothers went to the door to door ministry.

They both were some kind of big men and one of them was a boxer in the past and just became an unbaptized publisher.

Well, it was evening time - the best time for door to door witnessing, but it was a little too dark already and there was no electricity at the doors.

Anyway, the new brother started his first presentation and said: "You do not want to die, do you?"

The terrified householder replied: "No, I don't... " Then brother said :"Read these magazines and you will survive".

The magazines were rapidly taken and the brother considered this as his first success.

After that his partner gave him a very polite advise to change his presentation a little bit to not scare householders and so he did.

At the next door he said: "Do you want to live, don't you?"....

Did I say they were Russians?

[campanula]

One more...

One married brother went to another country for a business trip, one evening he was beaten and robbed on the street and completely lost his memory. While he was in a hospital witnesses came and soon he was baptized again and became a brother, As he didn't remember anything he took another name and in a few years got married again. Then another brother from his old congregation came to that country and saw him witnessing at the street. The end of this sob story some how is not happy. He didn't recognized his former wife, also she got married to someone after that brother was disappeared.