At 3:30, 13 or 14 kids spilled out of the school bus and began sprinting down the block. By the time they had reached me, they were already in mid-sentence.
"… there’s a monster in the Webkins world…"
"…and it’s slaughtering all the webkins…"
"…it’s true…"
"… all the webkins are dead…"
"…it’s true…"
"….Yeah, Mrs. Laura…"
"…mom, mom, listen to me…"
"…if you don’t sign on at 6 in the morning and 6 at night…"
"… then the monster kills…"
"… all the puppies and the kitties…"
"… you have to go onto webkins world and erase all your doors and pile up the furniture…"
"… it’s true…"
"… it happened to Dylan’s cousin…"
"… it chopped off the arm of his webkin…"
"… with a big sword…"
I shooed away the neighborhood urchin and took mine inside for a snack. Then I googled "webkins dead." I found a whole of lot of mommybloggers talking about this new urban myth. Some posts were from earlier in the spring. It’s taken a little while for the urban myth virus to come to my town.
Fun to watch this stuff happen.
Apt. 11d 
Thanks for the alert — eldest is a big Webkinz fan and would completely internalize this to start logging on at 6 and 6 to combat the evil in-game monster.
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Webkinz are dying? My wishes are coming true!
Just kiddin’. I think they are cute. Only wish I had thought of the whole webkinz craze myself. And were now super rich due to my webkinz brilliance.
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This almost makes me wish I knew what a webkin is.
I was just trying to explain to my 6-year-oled the Mikey/poprocks story after he noticed poprocks in a candy store. They still make them, you know!
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This iz dum
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Just a remindar — a very important one: the animal war is raging. Webkinz will retire either the Cat theme or the Dog theme soon. They’re letting us decide … so PLEASE PLEASE vote this week — before it’s too late.
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