We've all heard modern urban legends. Take, for example, the oft-repeated story of knowing a friend whose cousin's mother-in-law ordered Kentucky Fried Chicken and found a deep fried rat in her bucket of chicken. It didn't happen but the story spreads anyway. The Exploding Toilet is a collection of similar urban legends: "Two animal rights protesters were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to the slaughterhouse in Bonn {Germany}. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two protestors to death." As for the exploding toilet? You'll have to read that for yourself!
Urban legends circulate even faster these days because of the Internet. A wonderful website debunks or verifies all the stories circulating through e-mail and Internet postings. So the next time you hear a story too good or weird to be true, check out http://www.snopes.com
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