From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 16:28:35 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
on an unrelated: we have heard the halloween horror stories of
> razor blades in apples, poisoned or drugged candy, etc, which
> have all the earmarks of urban legends. does anyone here know
> of a proven case, that can be pinned to a name, a place, a time,
> when poisoned/drugged/bladed treats were given to
> children at halloween? a friend says a foaf knew of such a
> case, but i now think it is 100% urban legend... spike
Nope, but I do know of a guy who was a cook at a local restaurant who
was arrested by a state trooper he cooked breakfast for because the cook
put really hot tobasco sauce in his eggs....he got arrested for assault
and battery.....apparently the cop tried to make the charge to be
assault and battery with a deadly weapon since he claimed to have an
ulcer or something....
Yup totally unrelated, but funny anyways...
On a related note, the old claim that email viruses were an Urban Legend
is supposedly now false, according to one company. A couple years ago I
claimed my hard drive got attacked thus, but everyone thought I was full
of it....
Mike Lorrey
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