Originally Posted by
PearlieMae
It sounds like the viral video of the little girl in the pool has extrapolated into the worst horror story ever, and your cousin's husband is passing on the most current version of the story. Like a game of Telephone.
For instance...One day, at a stop light, a lady in the next car said I "shouldn't hang my arm out the window, people lose their arms like that all the time." Sounds plausible, my mom said that to me all the time when I was a kid.
But when I thought about it, in my entire life, I think I've seen maybe five people missing an arm. And of the ones I've spoken with, none lost it from hanging their arm out the car window.
No one I know knows anyone whose arm was ripped off from having it out the window of the car.
Same goes for people drowning in a mermaid tail/monofin.