An Email I recieved from my cousin today gives a warning to watch out for sick individuals.
What a world we live in. A few weeks ago in a movie theatre 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 a quote; You have just been infected by HIV quote;.
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!
What kind of a person would willingly do this to another human being. All I can say is that I am disguisted by this.
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Luckily Ben, it's just a hoax email - hopefully there is no one out there who would indeed inflict that kind of suffering on someone else.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com has this to say on the matter:
This is by no means a new hoax, but one that regularly resurfaces. The example above is an Australian version and involves HIV needles on theatre seats. Around October 2003, another version of the hoax was finding its way into Canadian inboxes. This version claims that hypodermic needles have been attached to gas pump handles and that people have tested HIV positive as a result of being pricked by the needles. The Canadian version is very similar to the original US version,reproduced below, which began hitting inboxes in 2000.
An even earlier version of the hoax claimed that drug users were disposing of needles in the coin slots of payphones, thereby infecting innocent phone users.
Occasionally, syringes are found in places where they could cause injury to unsuspecting members of the public, including a case where an insulin needle was left in a pay phone coin return. However, there is no evidence that the callous and deliberate terror campaign outlined in these hoax emails has ever occurred.
The Center for Disease Control (http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/hoax1.htm) has information about these hoaxes on its website.
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