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That if a car was crushed between two big trucks head on the impact would be so great and the car would be so obliterated that it could be "lost" ie not noticed in the wreckage of the trucks.

 

Ah, that well known myth. I think they just make up things they want to do, and refer to it as a myth post hoc.

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Don't you you snopes me, young man!

 

Mythbusters have done it twice now, with no "fusing" of the two trucks at all. Urban myths are a bit of a hobby for me, particularly the socialogical aspect, if that's the right word, how they reflect our desires and sense of justice.

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Urban myths are a bit of a hobby for me,

 

Hey, me too. I never get bored of them.

 

particularly the socialogical aspect, if that's the right word, how they reflect our desires and sense of justice.

 

It's the right word, just the wrong spelling ;). But yes, that's why I find Snopes so good, because it often unpicks the cultural significance behind the story.

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My local Shell garage pinned up a laminate photo of a burnt out Shell station with the claim that the fire was caused by a mobile phone. The manager said it was a station nearby in Yorkshire....cue me phoning around every fire brigade in Yorkshire, none of whom had attended a fire at a petrol station. I even called in a station being rebuilt in Otley, but it was not because of any fires. After speaking to Shell HO (uk) they confirmed to me that Shell worldwide had never had a fire at any station caused by mobile phones.

 

When I asked for a copy of the laminated photo at my local garage, the attendent told me they had all got a bollocking, out of the blue, from Shell UK and had been told to destroy all the laminates as they were falsely claiming a mobile phone fire.

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My local Shell garage pinned up a laminate photo of a burnt out Shell station with the claim that the fire was caused by a mobile phone. The manager said it was a station nearby in Yorkshire....cue me phoning around every fire brigade in Yorkshire, none of whom had attended a fire at a petrol station. I even called in a station being rebuilt in Otley, but it was not because of any fires. After speaking to Shell HO (uk) they confirmed to me that Shell worldwide had never had a fire at any station caused by mobile phones.

 

When I asked for a copy of the laminated photo at my local garage, the attendent told me they had all got a bollocking, out of the blue, from Shell UK and had been told to destroy all the laminates as they were falsely claiming a mobile phone fire.

 

 

That's excellent.The only fire was the one in your investigative belly.

 

It strikes me that the more you start looking into urban myths, the more you realise just how much bullshit there is flying around. I'm very suspicious of any extraordinary sounding claim these days.

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