Urban Legends

Haha... a .22 against a Desert Eagle.

Mythbusters is a great show if you want to see every urban legend known to man disproved.



Once there was a young woman taking a ride up the elevator in the Empire State Building. There was a power outage, the counterweight somehow didn't work, and the elevator started falling. Miraculously, she survived the fall by jumping at the last second to minimize the impact.

This story too is based on actual events.

Ok I just thought of another one. I don't post whore often, so please forgive me.

A man is 9 stories up working as a carpenter (they are constructing this building). It is a very windy day, and of course it's even worse up as high as they are. He picks up a piece of plywood to bring over to the other side of the roof, when all of a sudden a wind gust blows on his piece of plywood, and acting like a parachute pushes him into the air. He survives by twisting the piece of plywood in the wind to control his decent, eventually landing on the 4th floor of the building (windows hadn't been installed yet).

True or False? I'll leave this up to you guys...

ugh, those past too were proven wrong on mythbusters...i think last season

lol

One night I was driving and I saw a car with no lights. So I decided to flash my high beams at him to try to make him aware that his lights where out. It ended up being a gang and they chased me down an alley and shot at me.

Well man I've been in that same situation before and that's one of the times I got shot... gangs here in CO are serious shit maybe not as bad as Cali but some of this fuckers here are crazy ass mofoz man I dk I don't ride on Federal Blvd (Mexican/Chicano area of Denver) here anymore... I try to avoid that area as much as I can, u can't even stare at someone in their car or on the street cause they'll start shit with u and prolly even kill u.

The idea that you can jump has been disproved. The story is true though. What happened was the elevator shaft was such a tight fit with the elevator and it was sealed so well that the air underneath the falling elevator had nowhere to go and cushioned the fall (wasn't really a fall actually, just a quick drop).

hmmm I feel another long thread coming up lol

How would the elevator go up and down if the air acted as a cushion and kept it from going all the way down?

Here's a local NH urban legand/haunted tale...

up by the airport there's a dirt road behind some apartments. If you go down this road, you come upon the "devil's church". It an old chapel that has been known to host satanic events. In this church there is nothing but evil. Camera's are ineffective on photographing the church (my friends and I actually TRIED to take a picture. The camera worked fine in the car, but when you left the car to capture the church, the camera stopped working). If you go after dark, there are faces that can be seen in the woods, and it's probably the scariest place you'll evere go to on this planet.
Down the road from the church, there used to be a little old albino lady in a big house. She had 2 albino german shepards, and if you went into her yard, she'd let the dogs out after you. One day we went up there, the same day as the camera incident, and the house was gone. No cellar hole, no foundation, just a field of grass and a clothesline.

Very weird.

The space between the elevator and the shaft is very narrow, and the shaft was pretty well sealed.

The elevator didn't stop in midair, it fell but not too fast because the air underneath had only one place to go: up between the elevator and the walls of the shaft. That space is very small, only so much air can go through at a time, hence the fall of the elevator was slowed.

I don't see the holes in my story...though it wasn't explained too well.

Imagine a very large syringe, except the needle is completely closed off and the part you push isn't perfectly sealed with the walls of the syringe (the black rubber thingy). When you push it, it'll go, but not too fast because the air has a very small opening to get out. (Sorry this is the best example I can come up with right now).

Understand now? It's entirely plausible and physically sound...

I suppose maybe if it were like one freak time, MAYBE it's possible, but I really don't think that OSHA is gonna start building tighter elevator shafts so that people are safe if the cable snaps.

Point the syringe down. Your finger acts like gravity.

Ok that was a horrible analogy.

Ever put a large ball inside a bucket or tube and there's just barely enough space? Then when the ball goes down you feel some air being pushed up from the bottom of the container. That's what we're talking about, just a little bigger scale (and a little faster).

Ok and after this I give up...I'm only repeating what I've heard, and I've heard it was true and the explanation seemed plausible enough...