ripping your arm off during an old school tug of war

One day during a festival, a tug-of-war contest was held. There were thousands of contestants and the stakes were high. As the day wore on, the final tug-of-war contest took place, and included all 1,600 contestants from all teams, half on each side of the rope. The largest man in each group stood at the very front of each team, facing each other. The contest began, and both teams of about 800 people started pulling as hard as they could. Unfortunately, what those present didn't realize was that the large nylon rope was rated for less than half of the total force they were exerting on it. Suddenly, the center of the nylon rope snapped, and the thousands of kilos of force caused the rope to rebound and tear off the left arm of each of the two men at the front of each group. The men were raced to the hospital where their arms were carefully reattached.

http://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Scary_but_True_Urban_Legends

at first i was skeptical about this urban legend but,then i realised if there is equal force at both sides the pressure would be great now if one force let go all at once exept for one person no only will he go flying but the pressure will rip him appart.

The Legend:
What was thought to be your typically charming Halloween decoration depicting a lynched woman hanging from a tree, turns out to be a genuine suicide.

In the town of Frederica, Delaware, a 42-year-old woman, perhaps distraught by the fact that she lived in Delaware, hung herself from a tree near a busy road on a Tuesday night. The body managed to hang there until the next day and was viewed by many unwitting (or perhaps retarded) spectators before somebody realized it wasn't a decoration and finally called the police.
Once again it's the lack of complaints from passers-by that amaze us. Even if the hanging thing wasn't a body, it was something that looked exactly like one and would be considered an extremely distasteful Halloween decoration (unless she put on a wacky witch's costume before doing the deed).
With the political correctness these days, you'd have expected two special city council meetings and 30 letters to the editor within the first ten minutes of someone seeing it.

A Halloween Stunt Goes Wrong in the Least Surprising Way Possible

The Legend:
A teenager manages to provide the Halloween show he’s in with the ultimate finale when, while pretending to hang himself in front of the audience, he actually hangs himself.

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While the fine citizens of Frederica we discussed were perhaps a bit slow on the uptake, the people involved in this hanging-related legend are on the dipshit honor roll. Mainly because it's happened more than once.
Yes, people have repeatedly tried to pull off an imitation hanging for a Halloween show, forgot to include the "imitation" part and went ahead and accidentally killed themselves. Yes, they were pretty much all teenage males.
In one instance, an entire working gallows was built for a show, with the "victim" secured by a harness so that he’d stop just short of actually being hung (take a wild guess how that turned out). Now we’re just thinking aloud here, but if we were standing on a gallows, fake or not, with a rope around our necks, we’d want to take a few precautions. For example, and again just blue-skying, maybe don’t use a real rope that is tied into a real noose that is wrapped around your real neck in a way that could really kill you.
Perhaps the saddest thing about the story was how completely unnecessary the whole thing was. Here’s a tip for anyone trying to thrill kids on Halloween in the future: You don’t need to hang yourself. Just give out full-sized chocolate bars instead of those not-so-fun "fun-sized" ones. We can guarantee the tykes will be talking about the house that gave out full-sized Snickers bars long after some life-risking stunt was forgotten.
many people kill themselvs axidentally almost every day, seeing how it was halloween i honestly would not think that a dead body hanging would be real i woul honestly appreciate the determity the person who hung it had over halloween.its true many people pull out these bizzar stunts that go wrong and they eventualy end up paying with their lifes

A couple checks into a hotel and have to put up with a foul odor in their room all night. They call the staff to complain and somebody figures out the stench is coming from the bed.
Now, there's no way that scenario is going to have a good ending. You're almost hoping at that point that it'll turn out the last guest just got drunk and pooped behind the headboard. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15628_5-creepiest-urban-legends-that-happen-be-true.html

i can realy relate to this urban legend because the same thing happend to me but instead of a human body we found a dead racoon under the mattres of a motel in texas.so "dont let the bed bugs bite"

can entering your pin number backward really save your life

this urban legend gives comfort those who often use their ATM machines in dark alleys late at night with suspicious characters roaming nearby. According to the legend,

you can enter your pin number backwards and the police will be notified and come to your rescue should you be threatened to withdraw all your money at weapon-point. While the technology does exist for this kind of "panic" response, it has not been put into use because of problems with ATM numbers that are the same forwards as they are backwards. These palindrome PIN numbers, like 3443 would be impossible to enter backwards.

i honestly donot know if this urban legend s actualy real or not.ut next time your at a atm put your pin backwards and see what happens.if this could really happen y is there still alot of terror of going to a atm at night this legend was probably made to give people comfort.

never trust the guy next to you while you are at the atm

In the Lebanese Loop scheme, the

unsuspecting victim puts their card into the ATM machine. Once the card is in the machine, a message comes up- unable to read the card. The reason the card is unreadable is because someone has inserted a plastic sleeve into the machine "capturing" the card. A person then walks up and tells you the same thing happened to them the other day. They tell you to put in your PIN and hit the cancel twice and the card should come back out. Of course, it does not. You leave thinking the card is stuck in the machine. The "helpful person" now has your PIN and proceeds to hook the plastic sleeve containing your card out of the machine. They are now free to to spend or withdraw your money. By the time you go to the bank to report your captured card, it is too late.

this has actualy happened to many people,i have posted a letter to those who are in terested and to see what you can do if this ever happened to you and i have alsoo put in some safety precautions.