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Tigress
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Date Joined Feb 2003
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Posted 12/12/2003 5:31 AM (GMT -6)

Here's a warning that may or may not be a hoax, but I thought I'd just post it anyway, because I don't want to see anyone get hurt.

This world gets sicker every day!

Warning: Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives a car.

My name is Captain Abraham Sands of the Jacksonville, Florida Police Department. I have been asked by state and local authorities to write this email in order to get the word out to car drivers of a very dangerous prank that is occurring in numerous states. Some person or persons have been affixing hypodermic needles to the underside of gas pump handles! These needles appear to be infected with HIV positive blood. In the Jacksonville area alone there have been 17 cases of people being stuck by these needles over the past five months. We have verified reports of at least 12 others in various states around the country. It is believed that these may be copycat incidents due to someone reading about the crimes or seeing them reported on the television. At this point no one has been arrested and catching the perpetrator(s) has become our top priority. Shockingly, of the 17 people who where stuck, 8 have tested HIV positive and because of the nature of the disease, the others could test positive in a couple years.

Evidently the consumers go to fill their car with gas, and when picking up the pump handle get stuck with the infected needle.

IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CAREFULLY CHECK THE HANDLE of the gas pump each time you use one. LOOK AT EVERY SURFACE YOUR HAND MAY TOUCH, INCLUDING UNDER THE HANDLE! If you do find a needle affixed to one, immediately contact your local evidence.

PLEASE HELP US BY MAINTAINING A VIGILANCE, AND BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO DRIVES. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF THIS, THE BETTER PROTECTED WE CAN ALL BE.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

honorman
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Posted 12/12/2003 5:35 AM (GMT -6)

Tigress: one of the reasons that it is so hard to find a cure for the HIV virus is because it doesn't live in the air very long, so it is hard to effectively deal with. So I doubt, even if someone were doing that, a person could actually get it that way. Just as you cannot get it from an exposed toilet seat...

Laplace
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Date Joined Apr 2003
Total Posts : 138

Posted 12/12/2003 5:46 AM (GMT -6)

Unfortunately, this sounds like another Urban Legend Hoax. I'm not saying that this scenario couldn't happen, but I'm seriously questioning the legitimacy of the cases and even the existance of Officer Sands.

I humbly ask that people investigate such spam before passing it on. One good site for confirming such "pass-it-along" E-mails is snopes.com.

"I-saw-it-in-my-Inbox-so-it-must-be-true" Laplace

"I say we blast the meatbag, Master" -HK-47, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Tigress
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Date Joined Feb 2003
Total Posts : 1252

Posted 12/12/2003 9:10 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Polycarp

It's a hoax.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa061400a.htm

Yeah, yeah, yeah.....I tried to delete the post but I don't have a trash can or any type of "delete" icon to click for some reason. I asked Ataraxia about it, so hopefully she'll give me one.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

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