Urban legend?
Can anyone verify this story? I was recently told this by a group of fourth-
grade children. It seems a performer who occupied the "Barney" costume was
accused of concealing illicit drugs in the tail of his dinosaur costume!
I told them the story was just a silly piece of gossip; everything about it
sounds like nothing more than an urban legend, yet they insisted that it was
true. I looked for this tale on urban legend sites but I haven't been able to
find anything. Anyone know where this story came from, and if there is any
truth to it? I'm not trying to start any nasty rumors, I just want to know
how such a tale got started. For some reason, kids' shows in particular are
targets for sinister urban legends (while I found nothing about Barney, an
urban legend site included a story about Mr. Rogers' former life as a trained
assassin--just a rumor, of course).
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!