And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
Fortunately, Baby Shark wasn’t a thing when my children were young. But, I had to deal with Barney!

I love you
You love me
We’re a happy family ...
'The most "overused" torture song in the CIA's arsenal' but not the most effective as the pain diminishes quickly in most subjects because the nerves for Barney pain have already been damaged by prior exposure.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,768
A prank gone serious:


But that's not where it ends: In an update shared shortly after the original post, the employee claims a “conspiracy theory” emerged later that day, with several employees convinced that it wasn’t a prank at all, despite the maintenance workers finding the speaker. Instead, the co-workers believed there really was a live cat still stuck in the ceiling but “management” only claimed it was a prank in order to get people back to work.
 

Tonyr1084

Joined Sep 24, 2015
9,744
Pranks! Love em.

One Saturday morning, while my parents were in Las Vegas my best friend and I put a loud speaker up on the roof behind the Mulberry tree. In the pre-dawn light we played a sound effects record of a plane crash. Made the papers. "Mysterious plane crash heard by many. No wreckage found."

Never got caught for that one.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,307
...I put a loud speaker up on the roof behind the Mulberry tree. In the pre-dawn light we played a sound effects record of a plane crash. Made the papers. "Mysterious plane crash heard by many. No wreckage found."
This is rather difficult to believe. I suspect your young mind embellished the story just a little bit.

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Tonyr1084

Joined Sep 24, 2015
9,744
Nope! Local paper. Wish I still had a copy. Back in 69.

Whenever anything went wrong in the neighborhood my friend and I always got the blame. Probably because mostly we were responsible. Only once did someone do something we got the blame for.

Home made skyrockets, minibikes with superchargers, hooking all the neighborhood garden hoses together around the block starting at the side outlet of one house and back to the lawn of the same house. Turned the water on all night. Watched the home owner follow the hose all the way around the block while we were sitting on the roof behind the tree. We still laugh about that one.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,768
The Curse of PomPeii:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/pompeii-artifacts-returned-scli-intl/index.html

A Canadian woman has returned five artifacts she took from Pompeii in 2005, saying they have plagued her with bad luck.
The woman, identified only as Nicole, sent two white mosaic tiles, two pieces of amphora vase and a piece of ceramic wall to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, along with a letter explaining her decision.
"I wanted to have a piece of history that couldn't be bought," wrote the woman, who said she was "young and dumb" at the time.

Since returning to Canada, she said, she has suffered two bouts of breast cancer, resulting in a double mastectomy, and her family has also been in financial trouble.
 
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