Originally posted by Butcher Bird:
The story about the "little boy" or "old man who no one would listen to" and letting the airs out of the semi-trailer tires (which was stuck under a bridge!) has been kicking around since the 1950s and if I hear it one more time from another "eye witness" I think that I will scream.
Scream on
I didn't even know this was an urban legend, but it did happen to me. We were on a school outing in a bus. Late at night the drive decided to take a different route back, and had to pass a railroad under crossing. Needless to say, the bus got stuck and he tried every piece of metal bar he had to pry it loose. The class clown quietly said from the middle of the bus: "Why not let a little air out of the front tires and back away?" The driver did, and we got out of that bind a couple of hours late.
Scream as much as you want, but this on IS true.
/Pete