The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Urban tales for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
Read this article about a similar story. Find out.
Answer
- The story was that an organised gang was planning to drug visitors to the New Orleans Mardi Gras and take their kidneys out, to sell them on the black market. It sparked panic – lots of people called the police.
- It’s an old story, and dates back over 30 years. In the 1980s Guatemala was gripped by stories of Americans kidnapping local children and harvesting their organs; by the early 1990s, there were stories in the States about Latino women tempting American men to a similar fate and before long the idea appeared in TV dramas and movies – variations started to appear all over the world.
- They’re all examples of urban myths – stories that just emerge from the popular subconscious and take on lives of their own!