All this week at blogging.la, we're doing a series called The Top Los Angeles Urban Legends, counting down the top 25, as voted on by a top secret cabal of blogging.la-affiliated people, who live in a shadowy cave up in Beachwood Canyon and gather each full moon to -- wait. I've said too much.
I'm doing two in the series, and my first one just went up:
Top L.A. Legends # 12: Gang members drive with their headlights off, then target drivers who flash their high beamsRead much, much more at blogging.la, where there are a bunch of really great ones up already, including:
Long before the city made the incredibly idiotic decision to give them a ton of free publicity, we've had a pretty complex gang situation here in Los Angeles, and though gang violence is generally on the decline recently, there are still an awful lot of Angelenos who have to deal with it daily, one way or another. Depending on where you live, it's something you either safely see on the news, or rather unsafely see in your neighborhood; either way, gangs are as much a part of our city as traffic and earthquakes, so it sure was scary back in the mid-90s to get a warning by fax or hear from a co-worker that there was a deadly new gang initiation in town, claiming all sorts of innocent lives. It's so scary, in fact, that the same warning surfaced in 2002, 2004, and again in 2005.Holy shit! Is anyone safe?
- Disney's Frozen Head is at Disneyland
- Turnbull Canyon is used for Satanic rituals, including human sacrifices
- Birds are taking over Los Angeles
- Tornadoes are common in LA, but are referred to as wind anomalies
So I wonder something . . . those of you who aren't from Los Angeles: have you heard any of these being Los Angeles-based legends, or have you ever heard one of them as originating in your community? (Like the "Eating well at school, send more money" one that changes from college to college, I mean.)
