I don't care what Snopes says, this is a much better story if it was caused by some redneck with a backhoe. Corroded gas lines are bad, mmkay?
Jesus. SIX popups.
Snopes: We've got an extreme liberal bias(*), and we're a bunch of fucking assholes on staff, but we make up for it by annoying you with intrusive advertising! Come back soon and also can I interest you in a Netflix subscription?
(*) fake turkey? rape kit? "I can see Russia from my house"? Why is there nothing about those stories when there's a page about Clinton staffers vandalising the White House?
Plus they've got it wrong on at least one occasion, when they insisted that the "dish of water with soap in it" trick wouldn't kill mosquitoes, because although any mosquito landing on it would be "done like dinner" due to the lack of surface tension, the bugs would have no reason to land on the water in the first place. I sent them an e-mail explaining that most mosquito varieties must land on the surface of the water to lay eggs, due to their larvae being aquatic and their ovipositors being set up to require it.
Their response? Send me a nasty message that they were blocking my e-mail account, and threatening legal action if I continued harassing them. Over ONE FREAKING E-MAIL pointing out they were wrong about something.
Yeah, I don't trust much of what I see on Snopes any more. They live for their advertisers, and present the narrative their paychecks tell them to.
Posted by: Tatterdmalian on August 29, 2009 12:25 PM