Posted by zMastaa
Edit:
FAKE
thx...
[ This Message was edited by: zMastaa on 2005-10-13 21:00 ]
[ This Message was edited by: zMastaa on 2005-10-14 09:55 ]
Posted by defensive
some sick people exist in our world if they do things like what that email describes..
Posted by JT
If this is true it wouldnt suprise me one bit
Some people are really f*cked up
Posted by Lynx69
Heard it too, if it was true dont you think it would be national news?
Look at the following links: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/hivneedles.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa032499.htm
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp
Posted by masseur
things like this are so easy to check with google on the internet...
from urban ledgends site... HIV Needle-Stick Rumors Still Thriving Online
and more google results showing this to be a hoax
Posted by Lynx69
hehe, beat you Masseur
Posted by masseur
actually you didn't
I posted then deleted my post and reposted with a small correction... but thats not the point.. so much of our email system is clogged wit hthis rubbish circulating the net when people can check it so easily
Posted by Kryptik
That may be true, but the point is that somebody out there may just be nutty enough to actually do this type of thing. All it takes is one person with a grudge against society, and heaven knows there is no shortage of that type. Today a report was confirmed of a woman being arrested for burying her newborn child alive. A police spokesman confirmed that she'd been arrested and convicted in '01 for the same type of offence. Now i ask you, how did the Justice Systems of our countries become so liberal that people doing such wicked deeds are allowed back onto the streets within 3 or 4 years? Somebody capable of committing such a deed is surely capable of planting infected needles. They need no motive, simply the opportunity.
Posted by masseur
I'm not disputing that there are nutters out there.. there's nutters in here too btw...
but this is more about spamming the net with totally, or mostly totally, ficticious emails meant to scare or whatever their purpose and people fall for it and forward them around the net continuing the cycle
when I see stuff like this I immediately pick a sentence or two and google and show them up for what they are
Posted by Kryptik
Hehehe,
i know what you mean. As for nutters in here, hmmm... Decipher my signature
I'm probably an honorary member of that tribe.
Posted by Cycovision
Nah, Masseurs right. That one's been doing the rounds almost as long as there's actually BEEN email!
I got one today, it was a rather well written and poignant poem about child abuse. Something I, like (hopefully!) everybody else, feels very strongly about.
Unfortunatley, at the bottom of the email it said something along the lines of "If you don't forward this email to five other people within the next ten minutes then may god have mercy on your soul for you will be cursed for evermore..."
Kind of takes the impact out of it somehow, and needless to say it got forwarded straight to 'deleted items'
Posted by haynesycop
I remember rumours about this of thing in school, some said people were being ejecting in clubs and being told "congratulations welcome to the world of hiv"
Things like this get sent once and then spiral out of control
Posted by kk.226
@ zMastaa
You might want to leave the article back in your original post so new comers to the thread can see what it's about. And then just leave a EDIT at the bottom saying it's false.
PS... If it was true... that's sick, but i gotta hand it to them... pretty clever.
Posted by Kwiksta
Hey guys! Whats this all about? sounds wierd...someone wanna explain? - im on wap
Posted by kk.226
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Precisley my point, with my previous post.
Posted by JK
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I dont think its clever... I can think of 3 ideas that i start and mail the rest of Safrica with, and also cause a lot of panic!! If i can so can others... we hear the same hiv things, in cinema seats, toilets, door handles, elevator railings etc...
Posted by kk.226
This is the first i've ever heard of anything like this. I'm not saying I think it's good what they're doing... far from it, i think it's sick...
BUT... the idea is what i'm talking about, and if it was true. I mean "they" are seeking to cause some kind of panic and suffering, and they WAY they are doing it... Infected needles in chairs...would be something i wouldn't never thought imaginable, which to me... is clever.
Now... to cause panic they could shoot up a school or post anthrax etc...whatever... but no...they seemed to have thought outside of the box.
Perhaps you misinterperated what I was saying... I always try to understand what people try to achieve in incidents like these, and i believe the way that this would've been done is smart.
Again i'm not saying it's good what they're doing, MY belief is that if this was a true story they should burn in hell for doing this. However i ALSO believe they're clever in the way they achieved what they wanted to, those are my opinions... and i'm entitled to them: Just like your entitled to think that it's "not" clever... that's just your opinion.