HIV-Infected Needles Hidden in Soft Drink Machines–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This email is from Canada. It alleges that there are soft drink machines in which are hidden HIV infected needles and when someone sticks a finger into the return-coin slot, the finger is pricked and the HIV virus is transmitted. The Truth: This …
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Snowball-the 87 pound cat from Chalk River, Canada-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This eRumor is accompanied by a picture of a man holding an enormous cat. The story says it belongs to Rodger Degagne, a former worker at a nuclear research facility near Ottawa Canada. He found two cats years earlier that had been hanging …
Help Find Nine-Year old Penny Brown–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: An appeal from a mother to help locate her missing 9 year old daughter, Penny Brown. The Truth: This has been circulating long enough and without any evidence whatsoever that it is true that we are classifying it as fiction. In a classic act of …
HIV-Infected Needles Are Being Found in Theater Seats-Fiction! Summary of eRumor:There are several versions, but typically they describe a woman who went to the movies, sat down in one of the theater seats, and felt a stabbing pain. She quickly jumped up and found the needle of a medical syringe sticking out of …
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The Suspicious Man At the Mall Who Helped Change a Flat Tire And Left His Killing Tools Behind–Fiction! Summary of eRumor:A woman recounts the story of being helped with a flat tire by a man in the parking lot of a shopping mall. He then asks for a ride to his car elsewhere in the …
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