Fanged frogs?

[Cyrano]

I may have experienced how urban legends get started.

A year or two ago, I was having a conversation with an acquaintance who's a real estate agent in South Florida. She was relating a story about a couple to which she'd just sold a house.

The point of her story was that they had indicated that they wanted to live in the western part of the county near the Everglades and she was trying to sell them something in the central part of town. She told them that living near the glades might mean alligators in the backyard and super-sized mosquitoes.

They still looked doubtful, but she's great at pulling crap out of mid-air. "I've heard they've discovered a new species of frogs with fangs that live out there," she told them. The next day, they bought a house she had shown them.

Yesterday, I was visiting a neighbor in the hospital and I overheard a couple of staff members talking about how it's not a good idea to live near the glades because they've found frogs that have grown fangs.

I have no idea whether or not this conversation had anything to do with the story my unethical acquaintance had invented back when. After all, how many people have you heard talking about fanged frogs?

But then maybe some pigs really do have wings and there actually are alligators in the New York sewers. Who knows?

[msongs]

1. definition of real estate agent = "pulling crap our of mid-air"? nt

[Cyrano]

3. Same as the definition for politcians.

[davidinalameda]

2. if you live anywhere in Florida

you're going to have gators

when I was living in Jacksonville, I was dating this guy in Gainesville and I kept seeing stories about people who found the damn things in their swimming pools

[Cyrano]

5. She wasn't making up the part about the alligators. When you live

near the Everglades, they're your next-door neighbors.

[eleny]

4. If you Google "fanged frog" you'll find one

They're in Asia.

[Cyrano]

7. Oh, crap. I looked it up and you're right. It may be a commie invasion

of some kind.

Then again, it may be useful in slowing down the urban sprawl we have here. Perhaps it's time to start putting up "Beware Fanged Frogs" signs near the Everglades. It would do more to help save the Everglades than did Jeb Bush who (like brother George) promised everything and delivered nothing.

[jeff30997]

6. Fanged frogs really do exist !

I'm French-Canadian and my neighbor is a vampire!I swear !

[Cyrano]

8. Surround your house with garlic. I don't know if it would work on

fanged frogs. But I have it on the best authority that it will repel vampires.

[emilyg]

9. Fanged frogs?

They will be hard to kiss.