Stuff of Legends

“True Lies” was a section in the U.S. edition of Stuff magazine. Many of the items sent in by readers were contemporary legends.

“True Lies,” Stuff #7, April 2000, p. 22. A dog retrieves dynamite and blows up a car.

“True Lies,” Stuff #7, April 2000, p. 22. A “decoy driver” pretending to be drunk foils a cop.

“True Lies,” Stuff #8, June/July 2000, p. 24. Tourists in a foreign country rescue a cat found trapped under their car’s hood. It ends up being served to them in their hotel meal.

“True Lies,” Stuff #9, August 2000, p. 26. A letter from an elderly and vindictive radio owner.

“True Lies,” Stuff #12, Nov. 2000, p. 22. A woman sucks the chocolate off her peanuts, which are then eaten by someone else.

“True Lies,” Stuff #16, March 2001, p. 26. Sewage instead of gas is siphoned from a motor home.

“True Lies,” Stuff #16, March 2001, p. 26. A prisoner stores cigarettes under his foreskin, supplies them to others.

“True Lies,” Stuff #16, March 2001, p. 26. A stolen rolled-up carpet contains a corpse.

“True Lies,” Stuff #17, April 2001, p. 26. A man takes a wallet from an innocent person who he believes stole his.

“True Lies,” Stuff #18, May 2001, p. 18. A man hastily throws his wife’s shoe out their car window, thinking it belongs to another woman he’s had sex with.

“True Lies,” Stuff #21, August 2001, p. 26. A pair of con artists ask diners to wave to them. The diners are left with the bill.

“True Lies,” Stuff #21, August 2001, p. 26. A chili seed is painfully stuck in a man’s penis after anal sex.

“True Lies,” Stuff #23, Oct. 2001, p. 22. Emergency flares sent up from a sinking boat are mistaken for fireworks.

“True Lies,” Stuff #24, Nov. 2001, p. 16. A girl’s footprints, left on the inside of a car windshield after sex, become visible when the glass fogs up.

“True Lies,” Stuff #29, April 2002, p. 32. Superglued to a restaurant toilet seat.

“True Lies,” Stuff #30, May 2002, p. 20. A TV remote control is found in an obese woman’s folds of fat.

“True Lies,” Stuff #31, June 2002, p. 18. A horse’s legs are ground down when they fall through the floorboards of its trailer.

“True Lies,” Stuff #32, July 2002, p. 20. Girls keep leaving kiss marks on a school’s bathroom mirror. A janitor removes the lipstick with a dirty mop.

“True Lies,” Stuff #32, July 2002, p. 20. An unconscious heroin user is revived by inserting a frozen fish up his ass.

“True Lies,” Stuff #34, Sep. 2002, p. 28. An airplane passenger’s breast implant explodes.

“True Lies,” Stuff #34, Sep. 2002, p. 28. A thief caught stealing a bush convinces a cop that he is actually leaving it. He is ordered to take it away.

“True Lies,” Stuff #34, Sep. 2002, p. 28. A man in a toilet stall thinks a cellphone conversation from an adjoining stall is directed at him.