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Re: Some true stories....

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Originally Posted by Adam Y.

I did something really stupid on easter. I asked a mechanical engineer,"Do they really fire chickens out of a giant air cannon to test airplanes?" Aparently, they do fire them to test the windsheilds and engines.
Odd things do happen like the cockroaches. I was watching my local news station and they had a man that had a sealed bottle of Tropicanna juice. A dead snake was floating within it. An odd site indeed.

I bet if he went to tropicana with it, they would give him alot of something (juice or money). My 5th grade teacher told us once that he found a piece of hay in a sealed bottle of coke when he was a kid, in the 60s, and they sent him three cases of free coke.

Re: NEVER Goto taco bell again!!

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In all honesty I would prefer he send it to the FDA like he said it would.:)

Re: NEVER Goto taco bell again!!

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Originally Posted by Hailfire

Even though that may seem like a false story, there is something similar to it but actually happened. My dad was telling me that there was this one woman who was sealing envelopes with her tounge as usual, but something you don't know is that since the envelopes are stored in warehouses, you're bound to find insects. It just so happens that there are eggs on the sticky part of the envelope that you lick. So apparently she cut her tongue and in a few days it became swollen. When the hospital opperated on her, one live roach came out of her tounge. So after hearing that, all I do now is run water from the tap to a sponge and seal it that way instead.

Wow! Your dad actually knows this woman? ;)

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Actually, the average Taco Bell is cleaner than most other restaurants, according to Dateline...

I don't worry too much about it - I haven't gotten sick yet, and I'll only need to worry once I do.

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My friend works at Taco Bell!

Wait...she was telling me about the restaurant's pet rat, Nibbles... /me shivers

Good thing I don't like much Mexican, eh?

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Wow, why don't we just avoid all fast food joints? Like there's something wrong with every single one of them.

Re: Some true stories....

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Originally Posted by Adam Y.

I was watching my local news station and they had a man that had a sealed bottle of Tropicanna juice. A dead snake was floating within it. An odd site indeed.

Anyone remember a few years back when people were mysteriously "discovering" syringes and needles in coke cans???

Yeah, sounds like people are just more than happy to do whatever it takes to:
A: Become known somehow
B: Get free products - like the hay in the coke cans
C: Sue a large company on an potentially unprovable issue

The stupidity of the human race as a whole never ceases to amaze me!

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Yeah, sounds like people are just more than happy to do whatever it takes to:
A: Become known somehow
B: Get free products - like the hay in the coke cans
C: Sue a large company on an potentially unprovable issue

Do you really think the news company would be stupid enough to report it if it was not true. I mean come on its almost impossible to get anything into a container without unsealing it. Also, I forgot to add this but it was not a regular orange juice container. It was plastic juice container that you could see the snake from without opening anything up. Sorry I have a tendancy to confuse people. I would understand why someone would not understand the story now and I wouldnt even believe it except for the fact that I saw it.:)

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Originally Posted by Ogre

How does Zzyzx know that cockraoches are crunchy? ;)

Trust me, I know.

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Originally Posted by Hailfire

Taken From: here.

"Unfortunately, not enough people paid heed, as evidenced by the following incident reported to me by a reader in January:

I have a coworker who states that his wife (who is a nurse) witnessed a situation involving someone who licked an envelope and then "hatched" a cockroach from her tongue. Supposedly while licking an egg-infested glue strip on an envelope, she got a paper cut. This then got "infected" but when she went to the hospital to have it examined, the doctor made an incision to release the pus and a roach crawled out.

"True story? Don't bet on it. The two accounts you've just read, the first set in Virginia and the second in California, arrived in my inbox five days apart. They are variants of the same urban legend.

"There are plenty of reasons to disbelieve. For one, cockroaches don't lay eggs in the manner implied by the story. A pregnant roach carries her eggs in a hard capsule called an ootheca, in which they incubate intact until they're ready to hatch. Outside the ootheca the eggs can't survive at all, let alone flourish within a human body. You wouldn't find cockroach eggs strewn about or deposited on envelopes."

;)

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Urban Legands are ment to scare people (usually uninformed people) into beliving an event occured that made a certain product or action unsafe. They are written in such a way that they make people want to belive them, not nessisarily in a logistical, and unbiased manner. These stories are false, now go back to Toco Bell and think about next year's competition.