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Question

In Florida and other places on the East Coast a group of people are putting HIV/AIDS infected and filled needles underneath gas pump handles, so when someone reaches to pick it up and put gas in their car, they get stabbed with it. 16 people have been a victim of this crime so far and 10 tested HIV positive. Instead of posting that stupid crap about how your love life will suck for years to come if you don't re-post, post this. It's important to inform people. Even if you don't drive, a family member might and what if they were next? CHECK UNDER THE HANDLE BEFORE YOU GRAB IT!!! IT MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE! PLEASE tell as many people as you can about this serious issue.

never said this was true I was seeing if anyone knew any truth to this ..I can see people merly putting needles or someting sharp just to be mean but the hiv this is far fetched..

Answer 1

I don't know about that. Read this:

Gas Trick Upset

Claim: Service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pump handles.

Status: False.

Examples:

[Collected via e-mail, 2000]

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 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 the 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, eight 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.


[Collected via e-mail, 2006]

East Coast - Warning!
In Florida and other places on the East Coast a group of people are putting HIV/AIDS infected and filled needles underneath gas pump handles, so when someone reaches to pick it up and put gas in their car, they get stabbed with it. 16 people have been a victim of this crime so far and 10 tested HIV positive. Instead of posting that stupid crap about how your love life will suck for years to come of you don't re-post, post this. It's important to inform people, even if you don't drive, a family member might, and what if they were next? CHECK UNDER THE HANDLE BEFORE YOU GRAB IT!!! IT MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE! Tell as many people as you can about this serious issue!

Origins: This hoax urging caution when Stick with me, kid. pumping gas appeared on the Internet in early June 2000. In common with other AIDS-infected needle scares (syringe attacks in movies houses and dance clubs and contaminated needles in payphone coin returns), it plays upon our fear of contracting this dread disease through the pursuit of ordinary and harmless activities.

There is no Abraham Sands with the Jacksonville Police Department — someone just made up a name to make this "warning" look authoritative. No newspaper stories from that city make mention of Sands, which is unusual (to say the least) about a department's spokesperson; Jacksonville is served by a sheriff's office, not a police department; a phone call to the Jacksonville Sheriff produces the response that they've never heard of Abraham Sands; and he's not listed with the rest of the personnel on the City of Jacksonville Sheriff's Office web site. No news stories out of Florida confirm the e-mail's claim that 17 people have so far been injured by these attacks, the City of Jacksonsville Sheriff's Office says the whole thing is a hoax, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta maintain they are not aware of any cases where HIV has been transmitted by a needle-stick injury outside of a health care
setting.

In June 2001, hoaxsters altered the text of the leg-pull to place Captain Abraham Sands with the police department in Buffalo, New York. He's fictitious there too.

In September 2003, hoaxsters placed Captain Abraham Sands with Ontario Provincial Police Department and altered in the text of the message "the Jacksonville area" to "the Simcoe area."

In November 2004, Captain Abraham Sands of various places became Sheriff Ken Irwin of the Yakima County Sheriff's Office, with the tamperings supposedly taking place in the Yakima/Union Gap areas.

No matter how it is reworded, this is naught but another darn fool hoax dreamed up by someone intent upon enjoying the sight of the Internet community thrown into another panic. Don't contribute to it by passing along this humbug.

Answer 2

Yes. The consonants and vowels are in the right places, but the ones that were "educated" during the Reagan and Bush Sr. times need demagogues like Rush Lumpaugh, Glenn Bunk, and Calamity Hannity, to tell them what to think. The Repugnicons are on the run... that's why they can only react to Obama's policies. They don't have any ideas of their own, they can only try to tear down Obama's ideas, and, failing that, slander Obama as a person. The Republican "leadership" have been acting like a bunch of whiny children since the election. They were big contributors to the present mess, and they need to adult up and work to solve the problems, not sit in the middle of the floor and hold their breath until their faces turn blue. They're having a temper tantrum, and it's getting ugly. The "birthers," who are even more stupid than PETA, don't seem to realize that they are hurting their cause. The GOP, who were the ones that started the dumba** rumour, are now trying to distance themselves from the silliness. To answer your question - NO. They don't hear much of anything, other than the first phrase or two of a sentence, then they go off to the garage to start making signs and plan some half a**ed protest they call "tea parties." They're egged on by morons like Glenn Bunk, and that Hannity clown. That's all they hear, and unfortunately, that's all they'll learn. Generally, listening and learning mean change; by definition, conservatives don't want change, so they only pretend to listen. Republicans, and the people who claim they are, have tried to raise a culture of fear in recent years; it is not in their best interests if they were to say everything is going to be OK. So it may be that it's not because they don't hear, they can afford hearing aids, they just don't give a s*** what you think. They have their agenda, and it's not necessarily in your best interests. Money's the game here.

Answer 3

This is an urban legend. HIV can only live for a few minutes outside of the body, and once the blood is dry (which happens pretty fast) there is no virulence (the virus can't infect anymore). Also, the risk of transmission from a simple needle stick is low because you are going to bleed outward.

Please check your sources and cite them if you are going to post things that could potentially start a panic!!!

Answer 4

Alright, let me tell you why this is clearly an urban myth.

If you work in a hospital with HIV-positive patients, as I have, you receive training on occupational exposures by needlestick, which is the kind of injury you are discussing. In fact, from a single needlestick contaminated with HIV-positive blood, you have approximately a 1 in 200 chance of becoming HIV positive.

You are saying, however, that 5 in 8 (10 in 16) people have become HIV-positive. No way. Never could happen.

Please check snopes.com on this urban myth.

Answer 5

Some people are really sick in the head.

Me, I hope my ex-boss gets a contract in florida and it happens to him because he is an evil greedy POS.

Answer 6

i haven't heard that, but that is horrible. I'll be sure to tell my family and friends to look for that from now on. You just never know what is lurking around corners these days.

Answer 7

False. It's an old urban legend.

Answer 8

i live in florida and i havent heard a thing about this.......but you can believe i will be checking it out now....thanks for the info,ill relate the message and see how many others heard this one.

Answer 9

That is absolutely NOT true.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/gaspump.asp

Answer 10

That's crazy! Some people are just disgusting!