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Just like many other people, I am the recipient of many, many forwarded emails with stories that are deemed to be so important that they “must” be passed on to everyone else I know. Typically, stories include the phrases “not a joke” and/or “this is true” are a tipoff that they are just another viral myth.

After receiving one this morning (from a well-meaning friend), I thought I would start a new ongoing “mythbuster” feature on this blog in which I check out suspect stories and share the results here. The first story to kick this inaugural edition is…

The Budweiser Story
(not a joke)

This is TRUE!

How Budweiser handled those who laughed at those who died on the 11th of September, 2001…

Thought you might like to know what happened in a little town north of Bakersfield , California . After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and people around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York , Pennsylvania , and the Pentagon.

Continued

One neighborhood’s disgust with a discourteous resident who refused to pick up after her four-legged pooping machines was creative and noteworthy enough to make the local news (not here, but wherever she leaves) and is worthy of consideration for “Innovative Passive-Aggressive Vigilante(s) of the Year.” While I generally don’t encourage such passive aggressiveness, this case is simply brilliant. As someone whose blood boils when other dog owners are similarly thoughtless and willfully negligent in cleaning up after their own (dogs’) sh*t, this story brings a warm feeling of poetic justice to my heart.

(The following clip of passive aggressive “vigilante” goodness is brought to you courtesy of passiveaggressivenotes.com.)

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