Posted: 7/24/2007 7:51:25 AM EDT
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Read this before your next gas fill-up. Warning: Look at the gas pump handle BEFORE you pump your gas. 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 (5) 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 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 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. Rose Lambert, Chief Aide to Supervisor Gerry Hyland, Mount Vernon District, 2511 Parkers Lane , Alexandria , VA 22306 . PLEASE READ THIS AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!!!! |
damn it i feel so useless.. i have no one in my address book.. i cant warn anyone,....!!! on the noes.. the sky is falling... whats your email address. ill send you an offer you cant refuse... its from nigera so check your spam folder.. |
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Remember Snopes also said that questions about John Kerry's service record were unfounded (and used his biography as a "reference") I'll go with CDC on this one:
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/hoax1.htm Bottom line: Unlikely but not impossible. The letter is a fabrication, but there may be basis for the stories (maybe stretched, maybe not). Of course nobody in the media or .gov (or even Snopes) is going to hint that AIDS is anything more than a difficult to get disease that is almost impossible to get by any means other than sex, oh let's not talk about that dentist in Florida who infected his patients because we don't want to stigmatize the  community.And always double-check Snopes. |
I also heard that we need to be carful when you are opening a box of cereal form the sotre. Zombies have been putting tainted blood into the cereal mix, thus infecting 1000s across the nation with their infected blood. SIde affects are nausa, vomiting, blank stare, white eyes, rotting skin and limbs, bad breathe, loose bowels and no conscious thought process. Beware and email this to the President at once to avoid an infestation of zombies.    
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Man - I read that story right after I woke up in a bathtub full of ice, only to discover that my kidneys were GONE! And now you're telling me about HIV infected needles on the handles of gas nozzles? What's next? HIV needles in the coin return of the pay phone on the corner? 
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was she pretty? |
Positively HAWT:  She went on and on about socialized healthcare, and how I needed to do my part... 
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