Urban legend?

baron said:
Talking of animal ULs, I was told this story about 15 years ago, by a guy I worked with. He said it had happened to his immediate neighbour and swore blind it was true. It seems too "good" to be true but I admit I've never heard a variation on it before or since.

It goes like this. My workmate's neighbour is driving home. It's a hot summer's day and he's travelling pretty fast when he hits a cat. He slams on the brakes but it's too late. Feeling shaken, he gets out. He looks around and sees the cat stretched out unmoving on the pavement (that's the bit you walk on in the UK ;) )

He's about to drive off - after all, what can he do? - when he sees the cat move a little. Knowing that he hit it hard he knows it must be smashed up inside and decides to put it out of his misery. He takes a spade from his car boot and hits the cat once over the head, killing it instantly.

That evening, he gets a visit from the police. The officers tell him they have a report from a woman that he killed her cat. Apparently the woman saw the whole incident. She saw him drive down the street, stop for no reason, go to the boot of his car, remove a spade and smash her cat over the head with it. Then, she said, he gets in his car and drives off. Luckily she managed to record his number plate from where she was standing at her window.

When the guy hears this he laughs because it's obvious how this poor woman's misinterpreted what happened. He tells the officers the full story and they find it pretty funny too.

However, before they go, just for completeness, they want to check out his car. The guy says sure, why not? They do, and that's when they find the dead cat wedged in the wheel arch of the car.
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I found your urban legend. Here's the Snopes article about it and a related legend:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bargrill.asp
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
I'm American and I've been using the word pavement since I was about 6 years old. I know we usually say "sidewalk" because pavement refers more to the cement but both words are interchangeably used and well-known. At least here.
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American here as well and I always use pavement.....you could have deciphered the "boot" of the car...I call that the trunk. Which when you think of it is really odd because an elephants truck in in the front and most of our cars have the trunk in the back:confused:
 
Madalch said:
You've missed the entire point of the story.

The man ran over a cat (which got caught in the wheel well of his car). He gets out of the car, sees a cat sleeping by the side of the road, thinks it's the one he ran over, and puts it out of its supposed misery.
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:blush: Oh...I didn't get it either
 
Dogdoctor said:
That is interesting since friends of mine went on a trip with granny to Mexico. They did this frequently then one time Grandma died and they knew Mexico customs would take several months and a big headache to get the body through so they stuffed her in the tent on the top of the car and headed for the border. They stopped for a bite to eat and she was stolen along with the car and they ended up with a bigger headache trying to prove that Grandma was dead without a body. They had to wait 7 years or something like that.
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My friend knew these guys who were on their way to Disney Land in California when their aunt (who they were transporting from another relative intermetiate along the way to yet another further relative) croaked. They realized she had died and crashed the car, but not too bad. They actually tied her up on the roof! Then when they got to the other relative's house, they weren't even home, being gone for the whole weekend. Rather than wait, they left her in a lawn chair, still wrapped in garbage bags, on the rear porch.
 
juniper_ann said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke
"Pig-in-a-poke is an idiom that refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce, but apparently rats and cats were not.

The scheme entailed the sale of a "suckling pig", in a "poke" (bag). The wriggling bag actually contained a cat, not particularly prized as a source of meat, which was then sold unopened to the victim."
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That's really freaky. My friend told me this other group of friends, the same ones, later won a trip to Europe on a game show called "Pig in a Poke".

:eye-poppi: :boggled: :eye-poppi:
 
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