Urban Legends (paradise, blood, America, advent, muslim)

[Djamila]

Every culture has it's own urban legends and, a lot of the time, they're universally the same.

One of the most famous urban legends in Sarajevo is the story of a young Muslim couple who discover their car has been stolen. The rest of the story, you'll have to see for yourself...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guFyiehATgY

Have you this story among your people? Is it identical, or different in some way?

(And no laughing at the Bosnian Muslim woman! NONE! I forbid it!)

[kiwimac]

Great way to get people out of their home in order to steal the furnishings!

LOL

[Tigress]

I didn't have to watch the video--I actually watched a television show called 'Mostly True Stories' where this particular urban legend was featured. It's ingenious, really.

America has a slew of urban legends. One of the most notorious of which is 'The Hook.'

Edit: There's also 'Bloody Mary,' if you consider that an urban legend.

[FatMan]

There is also an urban legend about vacationing in the Caribbean and stories of people returning from their idyllic paradise and having their photographs developed to find the hotel/resort staff putting their toothbrush in unseemly orifices.

I think the advent of digital cameras has probably lessened the liklihood that this one will survive.