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Urban Legends

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    1337Rolla oh my

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    Urban Legends

    If you have some post them up: :D


    This story is not far from the truth:
    I dunno why this is soo funny to me.. it's late, :rolleyes:
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    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.
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    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...
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    ugh, those past too were proven wrong on mythbusters...i think last season
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    Physics wouldnt allow that anyways. That story has been debunked.
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    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. ;)
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    One time I was screwing my girlfriend in the back seat of my corolla, and I kept hearing these scraping sounds on my roof. I just thought it was a tree branch, so we kept screwing.
    Afterwards, I drove away, and saw my best friend hanging from a tree in my rearview mirror.
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    Cuztomrollaz98 MAD VLAD!

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    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.
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    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).
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    Sorry, but physics wouldnt allow that either
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    Cuztomrollaz98 MAD VLAD!

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    hmmm I feel another long thread coming up lol
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    e_andree E

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    Nah, because he wont be able to prove what he said above.
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    How would the elevator go up and down if the air acted as a cushion and kept it from going all the way down? :confused:
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    Hehe..there are way too many holes in that story.

    The elevator is falling, and all of a sudden it stops 10, 15, 20 whatever feet from the bottom, because of an air cushion? So it was suspended in mid air?? Hehe!
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    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.
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    Yeah, every town has a legend like that.

    In college we went to this shrine place, where the villagers were killed by native americans, and if ya waited long enough, the dead would fall out of the trees.
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    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...
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    Syringe analogy wont work, since there is a upwards force other than gravity within the syringe.
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    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.
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    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...

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