urban legends

Have you ever received or sent out an email warning people of some sort of danger? Well you have just been involved in an Urban Legends. Urban Legends are started by word or mouth or in this case via email, an urban legend usually starts off with this happened to me or this happened to F.O.M(friend of mines).While there are many that are circling the net, the stories of Tommy Hilfiger, a cuckolded husband, and Mentos vs. Coca Cola will be addressed.

Oprah Winfrey threw Tommy Hilfiger off her show because he made a comment saying “that if he knew black people or Asians was going to wear his clothes, then he would have never designed them”. This story originated back to the year of 1996 where as a tabloid in the Philippines took something that was supposedly said to a CNN stylist making several remarks against Asians saying he prefer that “these people” don’t where his clothes. But in 1999 an article was released from the producers at the Oprah Winfrey show saying that Tommy Hilfiger has never been a guest on the show so how could Oprah throw him if he was never a guest. So if you have ever received this email then I’m here to put your mind at ease and tell you that according to snopes.com this story is false.

A cuckolded husband presented his wife the head of her lover Stephen Schap. This story originated in December 8, 1993 in Germany. Gregory Glover decapitated one of his army buddies after finding out through not only his wife’s diary but through her mouth when she announced that she wanted a divorce and that the baby she was about to give birth to wasn’t his. As if finding out that his wife was cheating wasn’t bad enough but rather to find out that it was someone who he trusted. So at hearing this Glover became enrage and decided that schap had to pay once and for all, so he went over to schap with ever intention on killing him. Glover and schap got into it, next thing you know glover took schaps head completely off and brought it to the hospital and placed it next to his wife bedside just before she went into labor. Later on down the line Glover was caught and received the life sentence with no parole. According to snopes.com this story is true because of not only the evidence but rather the police reports as well.

According to snopes.com this urban legend about Mentos vs. Coca Cola is completely false. This story started back in the 90’s, which stated” that if you drink a whole bunch of Coca Cola and mix it with Mentos at the same time, your stomach would explode. After serious of testes that story proved that your stomach would not explode but rather you would have an extreme stomach ache, and it also warned not to try and push the limits of consistently doing this experiment at home because of what some of the consequences might be. So if you have received this email there are two things not to do: 1). NOT BELIEVE IT. 2). DON’T TRY THIS EXPERIMENT AT HOME!

To restate in the conclusion of this paper not everything you hear is completely true but rather they are what people call “Urban Legends”. So if you have received an email warning you about something or it starts out by saying this either happened to me or f.o.m (friend of mine) then know you have fell victim of an urban legend. You should not panic but rather should just take the topic of suppose it email and go to snopes.com whereas it will clarify it for you as to whether it is true or not.