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Here's what I innocently got in the mailbox the other day from my "good intentioned" friend:
A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom at
their Maui,Hawaii location. When he got back, he
was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy,
and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings
in some areas.
Couple of days later, he started feeling like he was
coming down with stomach flu, achy joints, headache,
and he started throwing up. He went to bed and never
really got up. Within two days he was so ill and weak.
His blood sugar count was down to 66 and his face and
eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency
at Pali Momi, where they said he was suffering from
massive organ failure! He died shortly before midnight.
None of us would have ever made the connection between
his job and his death, but the doctors specifically
asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried
rat or mouse droppings at any time. They said there is
a virus (much like Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat
and mouse droppings. Once dried, these droppings are like
dust, and can easily be ingested if a person is not careful
to wash their hands and face thoroughly,or wear protective
gear. An autopsy was conducted to verify the doctors'
suspicions. This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS
carefully rinse off the tops of any canned sodas or foods,and
wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, etc.
Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in
a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves
often have rodents. Most of us remember to wash vegetables
and fruit but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth
is........ even the most modern, upper-class, superstore has
rats and mice. And their Warehouse most assuredly does.
Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that
you wash the top with running water and soap, or if not available,
drink with a straw. A family friend's friend died after drinking
a can of soda!
A brief investigation by the Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta discovered the cause. The top was encrusted with dried
rat's urine which is toxic and obviously lethal!!!! Canned drinks
and other food stuffs are stored in warehouses and containers
that are usually infested with rodents and then get transported
to the retail outlets without being properly cleaned.
Please forward this message to the people you care about.
To me it smacked of Hoax right away mostly because of this line:
So there is this really harmful virus that the email is trying to warn everyone of but lo and behold they forgotten the name of it?????? How convenient :roll:
Well, you're thinking to yourself, what's the big deal? :huh:
Here's how I see it:
Like a lot of these hoaxes...there is slightly good advice wrapped up in pursuit of spreading fear. If it can't be confirmed then why forward it? Ask yourself if you accept everything at face value? Don't you think this would be all over the news if it were true?
Forwarding this stuff is what we call a socially engineered virus. Instead of the program spreading itself, propagating into peoples mailboxes....people are the catalyst for sending the message on...clogging up the internet spreading lies and and fear.
Before you forward this on next time take a second to question what you are forwarding. If you've never heard about this, if you quickly do a google search on the subject matter and come up with nothing then maybe it's better not to forward it at all.
To put it in perspective here's a quote from HoaxBusters:
"The cost and risk associated with hoaxes may not seem to be that high, and isn't when you consider the cost of handling one hoax on one machine. However, if you consider everyone that receives a hoax, that small cost gets multiplied into some pretty significant costs. For example, if everyone on the Internet were to receive one hoax message and spend one minute reading and discarding it, the cost would be something like:
50,000,000 people * 1/60 hour * $50/hour = $41.7 million
Most people have seen far more than one hoax message and many people cost a business far more than $50 per hour when you add in benefits and overhead. The result is not a small number. "
For more information go here:http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxInfo.html
I guess common sense is all I'm really pleading for. Think before you forward that warning about the mugger who knocks out his victims in the parking lots of grocery stores or the hypodermics in the seats of the movie theater or the rat droppings with the virus more toxic than Hanta ....
L8r
Gord
"A RONSTER!"
A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom at
their Maui,Hawaii location. When he got back, he
was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy,
and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings
in some areas.
Couple of days later, he started feeling like he was
coming down with stomach flu, achy joints, headache,
and he started throwing up. He went to bed and never
really got up. Within two days he was so ill and weak.
His blood sugar count was down to 66 and his face and
eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency
at Pali Momi, where they said he was suffering from
massive organ failure! He died shortly before midnight.
None of us would have ever made the connection between
his job and his death, but the doctors specifically
asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried
rat or mouse droppings at any time. They said there is
a virus (much like Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat
and mouse droppings. Once dried, these droppings are like
dust, and can easily be ingested if a person is not careful
to wash their hands and face thoroughly,or wear protective
gear. An autopsy was conducted to verify the doctors'
suspicions. This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS
carefully rinse off the tops of any canned sodas or foods,and
wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, etc.
Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in
a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves
often have rodents. Most of us remember to wash vegetables
and fruit but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth
is........ even the most modern, upper-class, superstore has
rats and mice. And their Warehouse most assuredly does.
Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that
you wash the top with running water and soap, or if not available,
drink with a straw. A family friend's friend died after drinking
a can of soda!
A brief investigation by the Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta discovered the cause. The top was encrusted with dried
rat's urine which is toxic and obviously lethal!!!! Canned drinks
and other food stuffs are stored in warehouses and containers
that are usually infested with rodents and then get transported
to the retail outlets without being properly cleaned.
Please forward this message to the people you care about.
To me it smacked of Hoax right away mostly because of this line:
They said there is
a virus (much like Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat
and mouse droppings
a virus (much like Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat
and mouse droppings
Well, you're thinking to yourself, what's the big deal? :huh:
Here's how I see it:
Like a lot of these hoaxes...there is slightly good advice wrapped up in pursuit of spreading fear. If it can't be confirmed then why forward it? Ask yourself if you accept everything at face value? Don't you think this would be all over the news if it were true?
Forwarding this stuff is what we call a socially engineered virus. Instead of the program spreading itself, propagating into peoples mailboxes....people are the catalyst for sending the message on...clogging up the internet spreading lies and and fear.
Before you forward this on next time take a second to question what you are forwarding. If you've never heard about this, if you quickly do a google search on the subject matter and come up with nothing then maybe it's better not to forward it at all.
To put it in perspective here's a quote from HoaxBusters:
"The cost and risk associated with hoaxes may not seem to be that high, and isn't when you consider the cost of handling one hoax on one machine. However, if you consider everyone that receives a hoax, that small cost gets multiplied into some pretty significant costs. For example, if everyone on the Internet were to receive one hoax message and spend one minute reading and discarding it, the cost would be something like:
50,000,000 people * 1/60 hour * $50/hour = $41.7 million
Most people have seen far more than one hoax message and many people cost a business far more than $50 per hour when you add in benefits and overhead. The result is not a small number. "
For more information go here:http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxInfo.html
I guess common sense is all I'm really pleading for. Think before you forward that warning about the mugger who knocks out his victims in the parking lots of grocery stores or the hypodermics in the seats of the movie theater or the rat droppings with the virus more toxic than Hanta ....
L8r
Gord
"A RONSTER!"
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