An urban legend is a story that people say is true but often it is untrue. They usually say it happened to a friend or a friend of a friend. It is often a funny or scary story.
Task
Find a good urban legend on the Internet and summarise it in your own words. Make it sound like in happened to a friend of yours.
A good place to find urban legends is Snopes or urbanlegends.about.com.
For Example: The Hare Dryer
Have I told you about the Angora rabbit in Adelaide? No? Well, it's an amazing story! A friend of mine told it to me. He said it was true!
Anyway this couple in Adelaide didn't have any children so they bought an Angora rabbit with fluffy white fur. They loved this rabbit. They kissed it and cuddled it and called it "sweetheart" and all that sort of thing. Anyway the couple next door had a small dog - you know, the sort that bites postmen on the ankle. And they said, "If our dog ever gets hold of that rabbit it's going to be a very dead rabbit!"
One day they came downstairs and saw their dog in the garden going, "Grrrr! Grrrr!" So they went into the garden and found it had got a very dead rabbit in its mouth. The neighbours weren't at home and the car wasn't in the driveway so the couple with the dog took the rabbit inside the house and put it on the kitchen table. "They are going to be so upset if they know our dog killed their rabbit! What are we going to do?"
They looked at the rabbit and saw that it was very dirty but otherwise looked fine. That's when they had a clever idea: "Why don't we clean it and put it back in the cage? Then maybe they'll think the rabbit died of a heart attack or something. They won't know it was our dog that killed it."
So they took the dirty rabbit to the bathroom and they washed its fur with shampoo and warm water. Then they dried its wet fur carefully with a hair dryer so the fur became nice and white and fluffy again. Finally, they raced outside and put the sweet smelling, dead rabbit back into its hutch and then went back home.
A little while later the couple came home. They drove their car up the driveway, then stopped, got out and walked across the garden crying. Suddenly they stopped and began to scream and hold each other! The couple with the dog ran out and said over the garden fence, "Is everything all right?"
"No!" they replied, "It's the rabbit!"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's back in its cage!"
"What's wrong with that?"
"Well, it died yesterday and we buried it!"
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