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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Fake e-mail of the day about the terrorist attack | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:30 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | > > Everyone, I got this from a very trusted friend that I used to work >with. >I > > don't want to scare anyone...just be careful :) > > > > > > > > > > Wanted to inform you guys. Not taking any chances on whether this is > > accurate or not.....be aware. > > I don't know how valid this is but could not live with myself if I >didn't > > forward > > It's always better to be safe than sorry on these things. > > > > I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the > > reactionary thing and send out anything that crosses my path. > > This one, however, is a friend of a friend and I've given it enough > > credibility in my mind that I'm writing it up and sending it out to all >of > > you. > > My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up until a > > month ago. > > She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was > > understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely > > emptied. > > On 9/10, she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that > > he wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry > > it had to be like that. The part worth mentioning is that he BEGGED >her > > not > > to get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not to go any malls on > > Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called > > the FBI and has since turned over the letter. > > This is not an email that I've received and decided to pass on. > > This came from a phone conversation with a long-time friend of mine >last > > night. > > I may be wrong, and I hope I am. However, with one of his warnings >being > > correct and devastating, I'm not willing to take the chance on the >second > > and wanted to make sure that people I cared about had the same >information > > that I did. > >  | ||||
| Maynard | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:35 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | I hope this is wrong. | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:38 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | This sounds like one of those Urban Legends, like the scuba guy being dropped in the woods or the married guy who showed his wife fn his best man. | ||||
| FoundryMusicHummercash | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:40 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 00 | i ALMOST care... but not really. ;) and wtf, y'd u have to post that... im sure we r ALL gonna get that email forwarded to us within a week :( GO DOWNLOAD MY WTC TRIBUTE MOVIE!!! You can also download my SCREENSAVER. | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:43 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | This way you don't even have to read it. Some morons will actually believe this when they do get it. I am sure O&A might mention it to considering some morons might have sent it to them hundreds of times. So I just thought it would be topical. | ||||
| Maynard | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:43 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | This could very well be a hoax, but guess where I won't be on Halloween. The fucked up thing is that if this gets around, millions, possibly billions of dollars across the country could be lost on that day. | ||||
| kindredbabe | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:49 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | I just received this email too. It's considered "undetermined" at this website. Urban Legends  | ||||
| ClusterF@#$ | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:58 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I just got this one too.. goddamn these people. whatever.. like i'd be in a mall on Halloween anyway. Stupid sonsabitches trying to scare everybody. Fuck all the bomb threats, fuck all the bioterrorism hype.. fuck fuckety fuck it all. Do yourself and everyone else a favor.. if you get this email, delete it. Or if you choose to forward it, then promise me you'll shoot yourself afterwards. This has bullshit written all over it.
Message to those concerned with my smoking habit.... mamma didn't raise no quitter. | ||||
| Drunken GW I Pissed on a Church to get this Status. | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 12:55 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Thanx Kindred, there was some interesting things on that site.  If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. | ||||
| Spork | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 6:46 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | > > My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up until a > > month ago. > > She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was > > understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely > > emptied. > > On 9/10, she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that > > he wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry > > it had to be like that. The part worth mentioning is that he BEGGED >her > > not > > to get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not to go any malls on > > Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called > > the FBI and has since turned over the letter. ...and now... the REST of the story. That letter my friends was signed "Love, Osama... Osama bin Laden." Page five. The Bose Accoustic Wave...  Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
| The Painter 1/2 a bottle of Jack Daniels... it's a cure-all | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 7:24 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | quote:Wow, A Paul Harvey reference  | ||||
| Joe Soprano | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 9:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | quote: Paul Harvey reference, always funny... Paul Rodriguez reference, even funnier!   <---- Kiss me helmet. | ||||
| Spork | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:10 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Oh that wacky Paul Harvey. When I first heard his show it freaked me out. Way too much blurring of "live reads" and his show. It was probably like the confusion that TV viewers of the 50's had when Lucy and Ricky Ricardo kept in character and started lighting up Lucky Strikes during the commercial breaks "...and you see because they're not filtered, they soothe your throat..." Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
| MashedPotatohead NIGGA PLEASE! All the bitches in here are crazy! | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Like I give a FUCK, I'll be Trick-or-Treating ;) | ||||
| red rocket Secret Sex Chat | posted on 10-10-2001 @ 11:30 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | quote: Nice, I figured it was BS when I get it in the first place. What kind of dick would spread there fake rumors?  God Bless The USA. | ||||
...And now the battle between us and them has begun. JYD-4-LIFE. | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 12:00 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: May. 00 | quote: psssssssst, that dick is named teenweek;)  Across the field you see the sky ripped open See the rain through a gaping wound Pounding on the women and children Who run Into the arms Of America-U2 | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 6:58 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Thanks Face. Why do you think I put this so idiots would not believe that it was true. | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 7:23 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Fears Fueling Bizarre Rumors Internet is abuzz with dire warnings, strange photos By GREG SMITH and EMILY GEST Daily News Staff Writers he Sept. 11 terror attacks have become fodder for rumors and urban legends that are rapidly spreading around a jittery nation over the Internet. Among photos circulating on the Internet is Osama Bin Laden as your friendly convenience store clerk. Most of them have been false, but one circulating by e-mail warning against visiting shopping malls on Halloween for fear of another attack is being investigated by the FBI. The agency says it has not been able to substantiate the information in the e-mail. One version, signed by Laura Katsis of Los Angeles and containing her company name and phone number, tells a chilling story. Katsis writes of a friend's friend who was dating a man from Afghanistan until he disappeared a week before the World Trade Center attack. "On 9/10," according to the e-mail, "[the friend's friend] received a letter from her boyfriend explaining he wished he could tell her why he had left ... and he BEGGED her not to get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not go to any malls on Halloween." More frightening is supposed photo of visitor on observation deck at Trade Center with plane approaching in background, though details show it's the wrong model of plane, the 'tourist' is dressed for winter and many other flaws. The jilted girlfriend apparently turned the letter over to the FBI, according to Katsis' e-mail. Hundreds of people have called Katsis or the FBI to check the e-mail's veracity. "The information is completely unsubstantiated," said Laura Bosley, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Los Angeles bureau. "There is nothing to suggest it is credible." Katsis, who is out of the office until Wednesday and whose phone is no longer in service, stands by her story, according to Norma Kraus, a spokeswoman for the company where Katsis works. Those who study urban legends understand why Katsis vouches for her story. "Passing along rumors is a way of sharing with others you're frightened. It's also a reality check to see if the feelings you have are reasonable," said Barbara Mikkelson, who operates Snopes.com, a Web site that tracks urban legends and debunked Katsis' e-mail. Mikkelson spoke with Katsis before she disconnected her phone and learned that she did not know the jilted girlfriend. The FBI is obligated to investigate stories such as Katsis', but in most cases the information turns out to be apocryphal. "We can safely say that in this investigation, as in other publicly acknowledged investigations, more often than not leads are run out and determined to be a dead end. That's just the nature of this kind of thing," said James Margolin, an FBI spokesman in New York. Other urban legends, none substantiated but all inspired by the terrorist attack, include: A philandering husband who worked at the World Trade Center told his frantic wife who called him on his cell phone on Sept. 11 at 10 a.m., "What do you mean am I all right? I'm working at the office." A tourist on the observation deck of a World Trade Center tower was photographed seconds before an airliner visible in the picture smashed into the building. Suspicious men of Middle Eastern descent have been seen videotaping outside the Lincoln Tunnel. Arab newspaper and food vendors and taxi drivers stayed home from work Sept. 11. Blue envelopes mailed to households around the country purportedly from a foundation have been saturated with a deadly virus.  | ||||
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