# Help me out with this urban legend **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 12, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-this-urban-legend/10212 "2000-04-12T21:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joe\_x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Joe\_x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_x)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-this-urban-legend/10212/1 "2000-04-12T21:19:00Z")
I’ve been thinking, tell me if I’m insane or a genius or just an insane genius. I recently saw some e-mail that stated cute little Timmy was dying of Cancer and that if people would collect tabs from cans the soda companies would donate money to help him out. Anyways this lady at work put up a collection can at the secretary’s desk asking for soda tabs. I was thinking of taking this urban legend one step further. I want to send out a mass e-mail along the same lines except I want to tell people to send all their soda tabs to say a former boss/teacher/girlfriend’s father… wouldn’t this be funny? I mean tons of stupid worthless soda tabs flooding the mailboxes of people. (I think this is brilliant its better than when I was in a Fraternity at college and would try to get gay video catalogues mailed to the president’s of rival houses). ---
**Author:** ![SingleDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SingleDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleDad)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-this-urban-legend/10212/2 "2000-04-12T21:25:00Z")
You can find the answer somewhere on [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com) * * * Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-this-urban-legend/10212/3 "2000-04-12T22:12:00Z")
[The pull tab hoax](http://www.snopes.com/spoons/legends/pulltab.htm). [What are YOU doing to squash ULs?](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/006925.html) ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-this-urban-legend/10212/4 "2000-04-13T00:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Joe\_x: > > **I was thinking of taking this urban legend one step further. I want to send out a mass e-mail along the same lines except I want to tell people to send all their soda tabs to say a former boss/teacher/girlfriend’s father… wouldn’t this be funny? I mean tons of stupid worthless soda tabs flooding the mailboxes of people.** Funny, I’ll give you. I also believe this would be illegal. I would consider that possibility befoore you decided to extract revenge in this manner… * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING: Three days, 22 hours, 1 minute and 56 seconds. 156 cigarettes not smoked, saving $19.59. Life saved: 13 hours, 0 minutes._