A report from Jacksonville Fl, states that someone is placing HIV positive needles onto gas pumps. 17 people have reported being stuck with needles at the pump. 8 have tested positive and the others may test positive in a few years. Please check all surfaces of the handle before use. Even under the handle!! If a needle is found contact store owners and police so evidence can be collected. I want everyone to be safe so please be carefully!!!
2006-10-04 13:51:38 · 19 answers · asked by myteachi24 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
This urban myth surfaces every couple of years - don't freak out.
2006-10-04 13:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by UNITool 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Gas Pump Handle
2016-10-06 11:10:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, are you really so fearful of life that you'll believe any garbage somebody passes on to you? I'll bet you thought Mars was going to be as big as the full moon this summer, too...
This is yet another internet hoax. There were never any needles on gas pump handles, HIV positive or otherwise. Besides, the AIDS virus wouldn't last more than a few minutes on a needle on a gas pump. Check your facts before passing on garbage.
2006-10-04 13:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're about 6 years late with your Hoax:
Email example contributed by R. Anderson, 13 June 2000:
Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives.
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. **********
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?
2006-10-04 13:55:03 · answer #4 · answered by Daughtry-luver 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Urban legend. There is no fact to this rumor. All this is, is a way to freak people out more than they already are about everything else. It's not the handles on the gas pumps that is killing it's what's coming out of the gas pumps that is .
2006-10-04 13:53:59 · answer #5 · answered by po8t1 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've heard that a lot too, and there's no proof behind it. The CDC has even said they've never heard of any positive tests coming back due to that occurence. Oh and HIV doesn't live that long outside of a human host.
2006-10-07 22:27:19 · answer #6 · answered by redfield4565 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the worst urban myth I have ever heard. Did you make that up yourself? It is not only physically impossible and biologically unlikely it is also overflowing with ignorance. Do you have some motive for starting a rumor like this or are you just passing the time trying to cause panic?
2006-10-04 14:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if it is just a rumor for now, it is still very much realistic. Some opportunist(s) can turn it into a actual happening. There has been no way to determine if this is real or not.
2013-10-06 10:49:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you saw this on the news and they have proof, check out all the urban legends websites. This rumor, if it is a rumor was going around about 10 years ago.
2006-10-04 13:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Papa John 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There has been NO I repeat NO calls at all within the jacksonville area and or Dale county area ..This report is purely false and its not even a question.
2006-10-04 14:00:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋