Interesting link - funnily enough I used to take part in the AFU newsgroup in about 94/95 and Dave Hatunen was a regular and reliable contributor. However, his post is hardly conclusive. I saw one of those Discovery "Fact or Myth" (or whatever it's called) programmes and they investigated same and concluded that it was indeed a myth.
snopes has it as "undetermined" (User Posted Link although the page pre-dates DHs post and the TV programme
Posted By: BerlinCanary, Aug 16, 18:44:37
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