Topic: Fact or Crap - It's your Call

[762]

As do I, he's Evel freakin' Knievel.

[Kishmond]

I vote crap aswell

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Evel Retired after his failed (due to technical difficulties) jump over Snake River. However, he did do one more jump after that, got injured, and REALLY quit. I can't quite remember the name of the town, but I think it was in America, not England.

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[LadyM]

Poll: Fact 1 votes, Crap 4 votes
Correct Answer: CRAP

On May 31, 1975, at Wembley Stadium, Evel Knievel successfully jumped over 13 double tier buses but crashed his motorcycle upon landing, breaking his pelvis. Assisted by handlers, he staggered to the microphone and announced that he would never jump again. Yet, less than 5 months later, Knievel successully jumped 14 Greyhound buses at King's Island, Ohio. His last big stunt came a year later when he jumped a shark tank at the Chicago Amphitheater. Knievel crashed, broke both arms and suffered a concussion. 

#7
Inmates in Iowa jails can sue fellow cell mates for domestic abuse.

[Vivec]

I'm gonna vote fact

[Kishmond]

For some reason my subconscious scrabbled together 'fact' when I read that. So that's what I'll vote...

[762]

I don't know why, but when I read "Iowa," I thought it was a Japanese island.

[LadyM]

Poll: Fact 6 votes, Crap 0 votes
Correct Answer: CRAP

The Iowa Supreme Court in 1996 turned down inmate Kirk Livingood's attempt to sue Philip Negrete based on the state's domestic abuse law. Nedgrete, Livingwood's cell mate, allegedly beat and tormented him.

#8
The movie that bank robber John Dillinger had just seen before he was gunned down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, was Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.

[762]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I never heard of him. That seems to suggest that it's true to me. Stranger coincidences have happened.

[Vivec]

I vote crap, who would even bother to check it out?

[LadyM]

Poll: Fact 3 votes, Crap 1 votes
Correct Answer: CRAP

It was a Clark Gable movie, but it was a gangster film called Manhattan Melodrama. He was set up by Anna Sage, the madam of a brothel who was facing deportation and thought the tip would get her off. Dillinger was shot three times and Anna ended up being sent back to Romania.

#9
Officials in Frankfurt, Germany considered fitting dogs with identification plates so passersby could notify police of the identity of pets that fouled the pavement.

[762]

It'd be absolutely hilarious if it were true. I'm gonna vote true just because I'm hopeful.

[Vivec]

I say true, and Ive been rite every time! (i think)

[LadyM]

Poll: Fact 4 votes, Crap 1 votes, I don't know 1 vote
Correct Answer: FACT

The idea was proposed by Peter Postleb, head of the Clean Frankfurt campaign in Feb. 2003. The suggested fine was 150 euros. His reasoning: If the owners know their dog can get them rumbled, they might think twice about it.

#10
The Tower of Pisa is the largest masonry structure in the world.

[Leng]

crap.  what do you define as masonry?

is it clay?  then the original great wall of china is larger.

is it stone?  great pyramids.

[LadyM]

I think the masonry in the question refers to cement or brick. It's not specific really.