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Last week’s Sunday Snopes Snippets dealt with a common email hoax. This week, I chose to address a claim that I have seen via email, but more frequently, have simply been “warned” about in person, by well-meaning folk who have “heard about this” and feel they simply must share the “valuable” information with others.
Anyone who uses email is bound to, at some point or another, receive an email containing a ‘warning’ about some terrible crime or event that they should beware of. These emails always tell the recipient to pass it along to everyone they know in order to warn others and ’save’ someone else from the same terrible fate. Most often, these emails contain some sort of claim relating the event or crime in the warning, to a specific location or police department in order to convince the recipient of its authenticity.
In mostly every case, these email warnings are hoaxes, nothing more than malicious chain letters that scare the uninformed into becoming pawns in the spamming of hundreds of thousands of people.
Snopes.com is a credible place to verify such stories you might receive. As a regular Sunday feature, fracas will highlight a different story each week to do our part in stopping or lessening the impact of the distribution of such stories.
Sunday Snopes Snippets
Sunday, February 11, 2007:
Claim: Reusing plastic water bottles causes them to break down into carcinogenic compounds.
Status: False.
Please click here to read the snopes.com write-up regarding this false claim.
Please bookmark fracas. Your next Sunday Snopes Snippets feature will be posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007!
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You rock. You just rock. That is good to know. I get so tired of hearing everything will kill me. Don’t eat this, don’t eat that…
However, black mold can really kill me… it’s trying really hard right now. Again.
Fracas… In the voice of Donkey from Shrek,.. I need a hug…
Comment by Joy February 11, 2007 @ 10:33 pmI just posted some love over to you at your site but there are always hugs for you here too!
This water bottle one has always bugged me. Honestly.. if they could leak carcinogens during re-use, then they’d be leaking carcinogens during the first use too or what… the bottles have little minds of their own”
(Ernie) Bottle #1 - “Yeah, I’ve been sitting on this shelf at the Save-On Foods for like, frickin’ three weeks now… I’m so pissed, I thought I’d be gone by now, I’m gonna start leaching man.”
(Quaid) Bottle #2 - “NO ERNIE, DON’T. You know that’s a no-no. You’re only supposed to leach after they re-use you with that (relatively speaking) FREE tap water. Don’t do it man… really, you’re scaring me.”
(Ernie) Bottle #1 - “Screw you Quaid. You spoil everyone’s fun. You’re such a sissy, you should be full of Fruitopia.”
As you can see… I’m not well yet. LOL.
Comment by fracas February 11, 2007 @ 10:44 pmLOLOL You are too funny…
Comment by Joy February 12, 2007 @ 12:39 amAnd one got stuck in the SPAM bin… :(
But I saved it… I hope you’re not Spam again…
Comment by Joy February 12, 2007 @ 12:43 amI’ve been trying to catch up on blogs since I’ve been sick the last couple of days and haven’t noticed any other posts getting sucked into the spam bin. That one must’ve been a fluke. I hope.
Comment by fracas February 12, 2007 @ 12:47 amhttp://www.snopes.com ROCKS!
I love love love that website.
My mother sends me those emails all the time, and I always send her a reply ‘thanks, check out THIS link. . .” emails. . . .
I could go on for DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS about the emails that drive me NUTS I get. . . ..
Awesome idea to make it a feature!
Comment by Joey February 12, 2007 @ 8:41 pm