Be careful when pumping gas

[CincyRedsFan30]

>>>
>>> Read this before your next gas fill-up. This world
gets sicker
everyday!
>>>
>>>
>>> Folks:
>>> Please take a couple minutes to read
this warning about
Gas
>>> Pumping Handles.
>>>
>>> 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 CH ECK 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.

[brewersfan19]

thanks for the info..

[General]

Man has this been around for a while.

[General]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/gaspump.asp

This hoax urging caution when pumping gas appeared on the Internet in early June 2000. In common with other AIDS-infected needle scares (syringe attacks in movies houses and dance clubs and contaminated needles in payphone coin returns), it plays upon our fear of contracting this dread disease through the pursuit of ordinary and harmless activities.

[Dry1313]

Goddamn I hope that isn't true.

[Dry1313]

And once again, I'm an idiot.

[CincyRedsFan30]

I don't know, I just got that e-mail today and figured I'd pass it along.

Take it for what it's worth.

[brewersfan19]

Hoax or not... still got to be careful these days..... lots of weird-o's out there these days.. And I mean the true wack jobs... They are the ones we should fear... not the wack jobs in the forum, (which I claim myself to be one). Lets just be careful out there, its a dangerous world.... God Bless!!!

[General]

There's also a lot of douchebags who send out shit emails like that to people to cause confusion and panic.

[The Fek]

I am in total and utter disbelief...I hope you didn't believe it...

[ATLien]

Lol

[CincyRedsFan30]

Just relaying what I got.

I haven't seen anything in the media about the issue either proving or disproving this issue, so I wasn't sure what to think.

Better safe than sorry is the motto here.

[Saber]

Man, as soon as that Nigerian businessman gives me my cut of that 100 million dollars, I am so out of this country.

[General]

I'll take safe over paranoid though.

[brewersfan19]

if I have too, I will take both safe and paranoid for $1000 Alec...