| URBAN MYTHS Please ADD to this list | |
| Golfer dies after chewing on golf tees. | Apparently true. Tee sprayed with poisonous insecticide. |
| Poisoned glue | Glue on bank auto deposit slips laced with cynanide |
| One last kiss. | Common story where man is mangled by a machine and wants to give his wife one last kiss. Been around for 50 years or more. |
| Mobile phone murder. | Little girl 3 year old is in hospital with a minor surgery and while she is on the life supporting machine it stops and she dies (she was also an only child) – apparently some fool was using his mobile phone outside of the operating theatre and interfered with the machine. |
| Man goes blind | Man goes blind after his contact lens fused to his eyes after a faulty switch sent a current through his body. |
| Pointsettia | Pointsettia trees are poisonous. No they are not! |
| Giant Black Panther | Urban myths, you say? Probably the best one that I can think of is the "giant black panther" that supposedly roams outer western Sydney. There have many "alleged sightings", but like all good urban myths, no firm evidence. |
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