The Latest In Urban Legends

[Lissa]

Delivered to my e-mail this morning:

Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives.
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, eight 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 police department so they can collect the 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.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Ex-cel-LENT! << high five >>

That’s almost word-for-word from Snopes.

Nobody ever sends ME cool stuff from Inboxer Rebellion. You are so lucky.

[Mullinator]

Does this mean I can get back to checking for change in pay phone slots with nary a care in the world?

[pricciar]

Interesting link to snopes there, DDG.
I never knew his power to find urban legends was due to his mind control techniques.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/gaspump.htm
pat

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Damn leftovers gunking up the copy and paste function again. Knew I should have washed that pot before it had a chance to harden…

It’s all Matthew Johnsen’s fault, he made me go look up that website.

And it’s also the administration’s fault, for not standing over me with a loaded pistol, forcing me to preview my link.

And it’s Lissa’s fault, too, for starting this thread in the first place, so there!

Thanks, pricciar.

[jubei2k]

So, we can also stop checking under movie theater seats as well? Got that jazz about a year ago.