Yes, it is amazing how kids can twist information and believe such incredible stories. Good for you for checking into things more before just telling the mom what you heard. My BIL is a senior is high school and at the start of the school year one of the kids in his class killed himself. Very tragic and clearly the boy had many underlying issues. My BIL (and all his friends) told us the reason he killed himself was because the school is mean. It's a Catholic school and all the boys have to wear uniforms, have certain haircuts, etc. Well supposedly this boy's hair was too long so the school told him to cut it, then they said he didn't cut enough, so he cut it again, then it was too short so he killed himself. Now any logical person(i.e. not a teenager) would know that the haircut was not the cause of his suicide, but that other things were going on (his parents were in the middle of a very nasty divorce, among other things, but my BIL insists this could not have anything to do with it). The crazy thing is that my in-laws kinda believed this (that the haircut caused his suicide) until my husband convinced them otherwise. Imagine if they went around telling parents all the rumors my BIL brings home!?!
Something a little different happened a while back with neighbors of ours. Their 16 yo son killed himself, but a couple of kids started suggesting he was murdered. Those poor parents! It was going to be hard enough having to deal with a suicide, but then they had to live with that doubt and were so frustrated that the police kept telling them otherwise.
