Try Snopes First

Just a reminder to those who forward email stories to me - try Snopes.com before you hit the forward button on the latest "unbelievable" story that you've received. I got two of them on Monday and both were rated "False" by Snopes. It only took me about 30 seconds to verify that each of them were bogus. It's not that tough, and it keeps a lot of junk from circulating on the internet.