I do remember the newspaper article about the man bringing home his dead relative from the states, but for lack of a citation I didn't want to mention it lest I be accused of perpetrating another urban myth.:) But since two of us did indeed read it, it must be true.

I have difficulty believing that the outlandish accidents referred to at the Darwin Awards web page happened, but the one about the show-off lawyer falling through the window at a party is indeed true if you can believe the Toronto Star and the Lawyer's Weekly.

I thought Coke and Aspirin were supposed to make you high. By the time that myth came my way I had better things at hand.

Has anyone at any time actually captured a crocodile or alligator in the sewers of any city in North America? Or anywhere? (Sounds like something that could happen in Oz) I have read accounts of people finding snakes in their toilet bowls, escaped from the apartments of lunatic neighbours, and even know a man who says his brother in law killed a rat that came up the toilet -- but crocs and alligators? Are they still protected species when they are in your sewer pipe?

My dad says that when he was a kid it was asserted that eating lobsters and ice cream together would kill you. That I do believe . . .