Of course, I've heard the story before. But I can't say what the regional variation is, because I've heard it a bunch of ways, and I don't know which was first. (I will say that growing up, I wasn't big on the urban legendry, so I can't say what was the standard then.)

Fragile Gravity, a webcomic with creators in the Virginia/DC area, did a version (http://unseenllc.com/core.php?archive=20071029) that seems to suggest "confused kid."