sandbox urban legend/bogus news circulation thread

I used to work in an office of intelligent but introverted people and would occasionally get fwded these emails of blatant nonsense, like the one about a guy approaching you in a car park to test a perfume but when he sprays it it's acid or rohypnol or something. My mum sent me that one regularly for about 2 years. Anyway I got on my high horse and took the three seconds it takes to google/Snopes it and sent that around. The colleague who'd sent it was absolutely flabbergasted that someone would send round something like that that wasn't real... and WHY??

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp

the person I succeeded at work emailed around something similar about criminals who would stick a piece of paper in your trunk so that it wouldn't close all the way and the light would illuminate, so you would get out to close it, and they'd be lurking nearby and jump in the car, with the keys in it,and steal it, and now have your address and purse!

Like...doesn't that operate on way too many assumptions? The average person would just drive home without noticing.

i have been telling people that the only animals that get sunburnt are humans and pigs. no idea where i picked this up.

i checked this "fact" recently and it turns out to be untrue, whoops