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Warning
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 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!!!!
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HIV Needles on Gas Pump Handles

Netlore Archive: 'Captain Abraham Sands' of the Jacksonville, Florida Police Department warns that evildoers are exposing unsuspecting victims to AIDS by attaching HIV-contaminated needles to gas pump handles

Description: Email hoax
Circulating since: June 2000
Status: False




Comments: Not to worry. On June 20, 2000, mere days after this dire warning first slammed inboxes across the Internet, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Department issued a press release declaring it a hoax.

"The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has had no reports of such incidents and there is no 'Capt. Abraham Sands' at the JSO," the notice said. No such incidents been reported anywhere else in the country. Whoever authored the email made every word of it up.

Even so, the message contributes an interesting new wrinkle to the HIV needle-stick rumors circulating in various forms since 1997. Previous variants warned of tainted syringes planted in movie theater seats and pay phone coin slots, not to mention random "stealth prickings" (for lack of a better phrase) in night clubs and other crowded public places. Now we have tainted needles on the handles of gas pumps to contend with. Where will they turn up next?

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