Friday, November 7, 2008

Urban Legends

The most interesting Urban Legend I found was one about a guy in New York who died at work. He had a heart attack and died one Monday morning, and nobody noticed that he died because he was the first guy into work every morning and the last guy to leave at night, and he was always so absorbed into his work that he barely moved. He sat in the office dead for 5 days before the cleaning crew noticed him on a Saturday Morning.
The story started in a British Newspaper even though it is about New York. They said they heard it on a NY Radio station. It was also in the Weekly World News. There were no U.S. articles about the event and no obituaries for the man so it is believed false. Also a dead body would smell pretty bad after a few days so it's hard to believe nobody would have said anything.

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