Here's a topic to out those prolific lies you see in your cyber travels; e-mails, etc. So since I started this topic, I'll be first to out one:
(NOTE: This is NOT the place for lies posted here in the forum. Please continue to use the Unknown Zone OUtright Lies tracker topic for those).
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/994835_630367383661396_396995650_n_zpse8bd75e7.jpg) (http://s475.photobucket.com/user/hlovett_2008/media/994835_630367383661396_396995650_n_zpse8bd75e7.jpg.html)
LIE!
While this bike is indeed in a tree at the place claimed, the lie surrounds just how it got there.
. . .In actuality there is a bicycle that a tree grew around on Vashon Island. But the true story of how it got there is quite different.
In 1954 Helen Puz (who is now 99 years old) moved to Center with her five children. At that time she had been recently widowed.
"People were very sympathetic and generous," writes Puz in a document on display at the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum. "We were given a girl's bike and my 8-year-old son, Don, seemed the natural one to ride it."
Don was none too happy having a girls bike, said Puz, but it was better than none.
The neighborhood boys, including Don, liked to play behind a local restaurant called, "The Den." (This restaurant is now called Sound Food.)
One day Don told his mother that he had lost his bike and he wasn't sure where he'd left it. They both let it go because Don was a little embarrassed to be riding a girl's bike anyway.
Forty years later Puz read in the Beachcomber, Vashon's newspaper, that someone had discovered a bike up in a tree near Sound Food. The bike was five feet off the ground and the tree had grown around it. News of the tree bike even carried to Japan where they made a film about it.
The mystery of where Don Puz left his bike had finally been solved. . .
http://www.discoverwashingtonstate.com/the-tree-bike-fact-or-fiction/ (http://www.discoverwashingtonstate.com/the-tree-bike-fact-or-fiction/)
Snopes.com is your friend and a lot of the people I'm friends with on Facebook need to use it almost daily. You wouldn't believe the shit I see on my news feed containing lies just like the one you posted above.
Quote from: Locutus on September 23, 2013, 08:00:44 PM
Snopes.com is your friend and a lot of the people I'm friends with on Facebook need to use it almost daily. You wouldn't believe the shit I see on my news feed containing lies just like the one you posted above.
Yup, which is what inspired this topic in the first place! :yes:
Facebook flotsam. Gotta' love it.
Quote from: Locutus on September 23, 2013, 08:17:51 PM
Facebook flotsam. Gotta' love it.
Not even as useful as asswipe! :mad:
Maybe that's what we can use this thread to do. Post those stupid Facebook memes that aren't even remotely true.
Exactly! :yes:
Here's one. (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200885809759952&set=a.2223148690662.2112892.1006055669&type=1&theater)
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