I see the moon, the moon sees me, and it's telling me to KILL YOU!

Factual Questions
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I was watching Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed on TLC just now, and something struck me as not quite right. As a bumper in and out of commercials, they give little trivia questions about urban legends. The last one on the show tonight was “The murder rate goes up when there is a full moon”? The answer was “false”, which we all know is correct. However, they added a coda which seemed way off base. They said that (paraphrasing to the best of my memory)“Other crimes skyrocket during a full moon, but not murder”

Huh?

Acording to the master, this is not the case. He atributes it to what I call “The van is always on the corner” syndrome. People will claim something is “always” so, even when it isn’t, because they don’t notice when it’s not. MTS:ULR, however, is a show (suposedly)dedicated to debunking these types of myths, much akin to our stated mission of fighting ignorance. Didn’t they get it completely wrong? Don’t they do any reaserch, or has new reaserch indicated that indeed, all crime except murder jumps when there is a full moon, a finding that defys all logic and common sense?

2

Here is an article from National Geographic.

This may be what they were referring to, but I feel that the show is a little sloppy- especially compared to Snopes.

3

I suspect the whole crime-wave myth about full Moons date back to when the Moon would be the only source of lighting at night. Thus a night with a full Moon was the best night to be out and about, whether committing crimes or not.

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Here is a poorly punctuated but rather comprehensive set of links disproving the theory.

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The first link on Google when searching on “full moon crime rate” is a page on the NASA site called “Ask the High Energy Astronomer”, which uses Cecil to answer the question. Even NASA knows whose the boss.