Personal Safety

[Niraj]

Whether this is a hoax or not, it's better to be safe than sorry.

This message is serious and has been passed to us from Cheshire RFU.

For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in the Odeon cinema, Festival Park, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV".

The Centres for Disease Control in Birmingham, reports similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. ALL of the needles tested HAVE been found positive for HIV. The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and coke machines.

Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations. All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is considered the bare minimum.

Further more, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well.

The previous information was sent from Hanley police station to all of the local councils in the Staffs area and was interdepartmentally dispersed.

[Lex-aholic]

That is really bad - what is up with these people ? Freaks !!

Thanks for the info

[Jiberjaber]

Computer says....

Urban Legend

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp

[Collected on the Internet, 1998]

Warning - MUST READ

Be careful the next time you go to a cinema. These people could be anywhere!! An experience of a friend of my brother's wife left me speechless. Please do send this out to everyone you know. This incident occurred in Bombay's Metro cinema (Among the best in town).

They were a group of 6-7 College girls & they went to the theater to see a movie. During the show one of the girls felt a slight pinprick but did not pay much attention to it. After sometime that place began to itch. So she scratched herself and then saw a bit of blood on her hands. She assumed that she had caused it. At the end of the show, her friend noticed a sticker on her dress and read the caption. It read "Welcome to the world of AIDS". She tried to pass it off as a practical joke but when she went for a blood test a couple of weeks later (just to be sure), she found herself HIV Positive.

When she complained to the cops, they mentioned that her story was one of the many such cases they had received. It seems the operator uses a syringe to transfer a bit of his/her infected blood to the person sitting ahead of him/her. A horrible experience for the victim as also the family & friends. The WORST bit is that the person who does it gains NOTHING where as the victim loses EVERYTHING.

So, be careful . . .

[Collected on the Internet, 1998]

PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHAIRS WHEN GOING TO THE MOVIE THEATRES!!!!

An incident occured when a friend's co-worker went to sit in a chair and something was poking her. She then got up and found that it was a needle with a little note at the end. It said, "Welcome to the real world, you're "HIV POSITIVE".

Doctors tested the needle and it was HIV POSITIVE. We don't know which theatre this happened at, but it happened in Hawaii.

"BE CAUTIOUS WHEN GOING TO THE MOVIES!"

IF YOU MUST GO TO THE MOVIES, PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK!!!!! One of the safest way is NOT sticking your hands between the seats, but moving the seat part way up and down a few times and REALLY LOOK!!!!!!! Most of us just plop down into the seats.

[Collected on the Internet, 2001]

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY! IT MIGHT SAFE YOUR LIFE!

This is happening in Montreal. A couple of weeks ago, in a movie theater, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "You have been infected with HIV." The Centers for Disease Control reports similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. All of the needles tested HAVE been positive for HIV. The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and soda machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations. All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is considered a bare minimum. Furthermore, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well. Thank you.

The previous information was sent from the Regina City Police Department to all of the local governments in the Saskatchewan area and was interdepartmentally dispersed. We were asked to pass this to as many people as possible. This is very important! Just think you could save somebody's life, just by passing this on. Please take a Couple of seconds of your time and pass this on. Thank you for your precious time and consideration!

[Collected on the Internet, 2002]

HIV Warning

A few weeks ago in a movie theater in Melbourne a person sat on something that was poking out of one of the seats. When she got up to see what it was she found a needle sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying... "You have just been infected by HIV".

The Disease Control Centre in Melbourne reports many similar incidents have occurred in many other Australian cities recently. All tested needles ARE HIV Positive. The Centre also reports that needles have been found in the cash dispensers in ATMs. We ask everyone to use extreme caution when faced with this kind of situation. All public chairs/seats should be inspected with vigilance and caution before use. 17 people have been tested positive in the Western suburbs alone in the last 2 months!!!

A careful visual inspection should be enough. In addition they ask that each of you pass this message along to all members of your family and your friends of the potential danger. We all have to be careful at public places! This is very important. Just think about saving a life of someone even you don't know by forwarding this message. Please, take a few seconds of your time to pass it along.

Origins:  The

 

important news first — this isn't happening. In the seven years we've been tracking this legend since its first appearance, no AIDS-laden needle attacks on moviegoers have been reported in Bombay, Hawaii, Dallas, Paris, or anywhere else in the world. We know of only two related incidents, neither of which has proved to involve any deliberate intent to infect an innocent victim with HIV: A Louisiana man sat on a needle in a theater in Baton Rouge in December, 1996, and sued the facility over the incident, but there was no note welcoming him to the world of AIDS or any indication of his contracting any infection. An October 2005 case from Athens, Georgia, in which a woman sat upon a deliberately-placed needle in a darkened theater there (a syringe had been duct taped to the seat), there has been no determination that it actually contained blood, much less HIV.

[Anees]

Words fail me!! :megaangry: :megaangry: :megaangry:

What an absolute :tsktsk: :tsktsk: thing to do!!

[Steve ( West Mids )]

Think these may be a scam, read another post a few days ago where "Centres for Disease Control in Birmingham" does not exist.

[Andy_F]

If there is a needle there, why did the person not see the label before they sat down? Its just chain mail, I got this the other day.

[Fargo]

mr jaber beat me to it,, is the 2nd myth i busted today...

[Jiberjaber]

mr jaber beat me to it,,  is the 2nd myth i busted today...

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I can't believe there were another three posts after!... maybe mine was tooo long for people to read :)

[Niraj]

as a warning, the idea presented in the original post is easily achievable, and it doesn't harm to take care in the future.

I would rather be safe, than sorry... would you all not agree?

[Jiberjaber]

as a warning, the idea presented in the original post is easily achievable, and it doesn't harm to take care in the future.

I would rather be safe, than sorry... would you all not agree?

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Just make sure you dont flash your lights at any cars after dark with their lights off then!

;)

[Niraj]

as a warning, the idea presented in the original post is easily achievable, and it doesn't harm to take care in the future.

I would rather be safe, than sorry... would you all not agree?

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Just make sure you dont flash your lights at any cars after dark with their lights off then!

;)

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hehehe... i was in that very same situation a few months ago... i didn't!

(i'm not supersticious, alot, hehehe)

[Andy_F]

as a warning, the idea presented in the original post is easily achievable, and it doesn't harm to take care in the future.

I would rather be safe, than sorry... would you all not agree?

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Of course, I always check things like that in public places as a matter of course, just because there are some strange people out there. Or maybe I'm just paranoid.