Safety message

[RC1]

i received this email today from a lady friend please read and watch out For you and or your kids safety

PLEASE TAKE NOTE


I was approached in the Pak n Save

Carpark in Taupo by two males, asking what kind of perfume I was wearing. Then they asked if I'd like to sample some fabulous scent they were willing to sell me at a very reasonable rate. I probably would have agreed had I not received an email some weeks ago, warning of this scam. The men continued to stand between parked cars, I guess to wait for someone else to hit on. I stopped a lady going towards them, I pointed at them and told her about how I was sent an email at work about someone walking up to you at the shopping malls, in parking lots, and asking you to sniff perfume that they are selling at cheap prices.

THIS IS NOT PERFUME - IT IS ETHER!

When you sniff it, you'll pass out and they'll take your wallet, your handbag, your valuables, and heaven knows what else. If it were not for this email, I probably would have sniffed the "perfume", but thanks to the generosity of an emailing friend, I was spared whatever might have happened to me, and wanted to do the same for you. These guys hit Queenstown and Dunedin 2 weeks ago and now they are doing it Taupo and Rotorua.


IF YOU ARE A MAN AND RECEIVE THIS PASS IT ON TO ALL THE WOMEN YOU KNOW!!!


I called the police when I got back to my desk. Like the email says LET EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS, YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, CO-



SOME OF US ARE JUST TOO TRUSTING...

[Donor]

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!! (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp)

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!! (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp)

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!! (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp)

No, it never happened... sorry folks...

[Croft]

ASSHOLES!!!! Thanks for the heads up RCTL!

[Edbear]

Appreciate the post, but have to say these types of emails are usually hoaxes. Did your friend say how she came by it?

Ether doesn't usually work that fast. I had my tonsils out when I was 6, and that was back in the days of the horrid Ether mask! Foul smelling stuff and after placing the mask on my face, I was asked to count after the Dr. I can remember getting to 19, though my mum said I did say, "20". The Doc was getting a bit worried that I wasn't going to pass out! (A friend got to three, but he was always a sleepy type...)

There's another email about being accosted on the forecourts where some bad guy tries to get into a girls car, bashing on the window, etc. The scenario portrayed wasn't really credible, not that I don't recommend caution if one is alone and approached by strangers. Trust your instincts.

[Ixion]

It's a hoax. No adult would be vulnerable that way. A "sniff" of ether won't knock even a child out (I've sniffed many a sniff). As Mr Edbear says, you need to have several spoonfuls administered by means of a close fitting mask that cuts off other air. And then it takes quite a while. And the process will be aborted at any time by fresh air. And an adult woman would know that it was not perfume after the first sniff.

'Tis humbug.

[Virago]

Anyone stupid enough to think that you can actually be rendered unconcious with one tiny spray of ether, is also too stupid to spot an obvious hoax.

The one common element in all these hoaxes - "...Send this email to everyone you can......".

A chain-letter by any other name....

[JimO]

it arrived in my in box from someone who should know better, i deleted it

[raster]

Hoax......................

[PuppetMaster]

Computers are not your friend.

[Donor]

email is teh devil...

If people took just 20 seconds to run these so called "warnings" through Google or sites such as Snopes, they would save a lot of bandwidth passing on non-relevant information...

To use a quote from The Goons:

"Mr Eccles, Mr Eccles we are not for one moment doubting your sincerity. It's just your intelligence that's in question."

Ah bless the boys... such truth spoken, and hidden as humor...

[jrandom]

Goes along with the world's most effective pickup line:

"Hey, does this handkerchief smell like ether to you?"

[Curious_AJ]

*sigh* chain letters...

but then again, always look out for suspicious strangers kids, you never know when they can pop up and rape you! (or mug you etc etc)

[Beemer]

i received this email today from a lady friend please read and watch out...

I called the police when I got back to my desk. SOME OF US ARE JUST TOO TRUSTING...

And did she? Ring the police, that is? Perhaps if she had, she wouldn't have wasted your time and ours!

If I ever get an email like this I just Google part of the text and it usually shows up if it is a hoax or not. I don't know about people being too trusting - too STUPID maybe!

[Finn]

Not everything on the internet is evil. Just last week, I got an email from a prominent minister in Nigeria. Somehow they got my email address and need my help. There's a cool $10 mil in it for me and I don't need to lift a finger.

Suckers.

[RC1]

No, it never happened... sorry folks...
so do you know my friend who was approched do you??

Goes along with the world's most effective pickup line:

"Hey, does this handkerchief smell like ether to you?"
is that your standard pick up line is it ??

[onearmedbandit]

Back off Finn, I was dealing with the same guy two weeks ago, that $10 mil is mine. However, if you send me $500,000 I'll be happy to bring you in on the deal.

[RC1]

*sigh* chain letters...

but then again, always look out for suspicious strangers kids, you never know when they can pop up and rape you! (or mug you etc etc)
stupid comment to make IMHO

And did she? Ring the police, that is? Perhaps if she had, she wouldn't have wasted your time and ours!
yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

[CM2005]

lol, those nigerian dudes ring you up if you reply with your celly number!

[pyrocam]

by the way, this is your bank please login to confirm your security details
www.yourbank.com/signin.asp (http://www.pyrocam.com/files/images/invisiblesandwich.jpg)

[Jeaves]

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole multi colored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.



Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor function. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it.

[Beemer]

yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

I really find it hard to believe that you accept this actually happened to your friend! This story has been doing the rounds for years and I have NEVER met anyone it has happened to. I also sincerely doubt that the police were contacted and took statements. If this WAS genuine, it would be on the tv news and police would be warning everyone about it. But having said that, feel free to carry on wasting our time, we all enjoy laughing at other's stupidity at times.

[Steam]

Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

[Donor]

stupid comment to make IMHO

yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

Dude... you fell for a chain letter... stfu and stop making it worse on yourself...

I can only laugh so much before milk comes out my nose! :lol:

[sunhuntin]

replace the words pak n save with any of the following:

wal mart
home depot
radio shack
woolworths
new world

and there you have 5 different scenarios. its bull. if that happened to me, i would NOT be emailing friends, id be phoning them. yes, by all means, be careful. but an email hoax is a hoax. what was the one with the pub and the horse tranquilizer that steralises women?

[Finn]

yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

Dude, give it up while you still have some dignity left. Either your friend is lying or you are. Step away from the thread and lay low for a couple of weeks and we'll forget you ever posted this.

[yod]

Computers are not your friend.

yes they are

tis the evil users that dont like us....

[Hitcher]

One would have to be of particularly sensitive disposition to collapse into a state of unconsciousness after a sniff of ether.

One would have to be an even bigger pillock to stand in a supermarket car park holding a bottle of ether and expecting gullible women to succumb to one's wiles.

[Steam]

One would have to be an even bigger pillock to stand in a supermarket car park holding a bottle of ether and expecting gullible women to succumb to one's wiles.

Works for me, and I don't even need the ether. I just wear tight pants and wink at the single mums.

[jrandom]

I just wear tight pants and wink at the single mums.

For that, you need the right T-shirt...

<img src="http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/products/a330/a330_bm.gif"></img>

[jrandom]

i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time

ROFL.

Dude, you have been fucked with. Move on.

[kevfromcoro]

Not everything on the internet is evil. Just last week, I got an email from a prominent minister in Nigeria. Somehow they got my email address and need my help. There's a cool $10 mil in it for me and I don't need to lift a finger.

Suckers.

yeah i got about 6 of those..must be good hearted cunts these nigerians.giving away money like that.all of mine where ministers too...might fly over there and pick it up......yeah right......scammers

[Ms Piggy]

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp

[Donor]

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp

Ooo! Ooo!

REPOST! http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1032924&postcount=2

...bwahaha, had to do it, how often can you ping a repost in the same thread?? :dodge:

Hey Sniper, do I get a medal for that? :D

[NighthawkNZ]

hoax... I get it at work 3 or 4 times a week... (though its blocked now)

[Virago]

........yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

Come on, give us a break.......

If this actually happened to your friend, how come her story is exactly the same as the one that appears on the Snopes.com link (as above)? Exactly the same - word for word (although Walmart has been changed to Kmart)?

Either you're lying, or you've been sucked in by a lying friend. Either way, you're making a complete dick of yourself by continuing to claim that the story is genuine.

[Ixion]

Not many NZ women would speak of her "wallet". That's an Americanism, for women. Kiwi chicks say "purse" .

[Ms Piggy]

Ooo! Ooo!

REPOST! http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1032924&postcount=2

...bwahaha, had to do it, how often can you ping a repost in the same thread?? :dodge:

Hey Sniper, do I get a medal for that? :D

Apologies - I didn't realise (being the computer illiterate type I am) that your post actually contained a link.

[Donor]

Apologies - I didn't realise (being the computer illiterate type I am) that your post actually contained a link.

No prob - it was more a dig at the QRF and the whole "REPOST!" thing in general :)

[Sniper]

Ooo! Ooo!

REPOST! http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1032924&postcount=2

...bwahaha, had to do it, how often can you ping a repost in the same thread?? :dodge:

Hey Sniper, do I get a medal for that? :D

Umm no


No prob - it was more a dig at the QRF and the whole "REPOST!" thing in general :)


Thats cause you can't handle it.... :innocent:

[Patrick]

stupid comment to make IMHO

yes police were rung and statements taken, i dont consider a distressed friend of mine a waste of time and if you think this is a waste of yours then maybe you shouldnt post in here

Geez... they got you hook line and sinker didn't they RTCL....

It is an utter and complete load of bollox... Loved it when they even changed the locations and said Dunedin and Taupo in the ones I've seen... And guess what? Taupo and Dunedin Police know nothing of these "reports" that were made to them...

[Beemer]

Not many NZ women would speak of her "wallet". That's an Americanism, for women. Kiwi chicks say "purse" .

Um, I say wallet! I have a wallet and I keep it in my handbag (well, I'm lying actually, it's a small backback...) and the only purse I have is a small coin purse I keep parking meter money in!

[Donor]

Ooo! Ooo!

REPOST! http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1032924&postcount=2

...bwahaha, had to do it, how often can you ping a repost in the same thread?? :dodge:

Hey Sniper, do I get a medal for that? :D


Umm no




Thats cause you can't handle it.... :innocent:

Awww... you know I only mock that which I respect so highly :D

...how about an apprenticeship?

[scumdog]

It's a loadashit.

We got a message at work about it and there have been (to date) NO instances of the ether-instead-of-perfume trick in NZ (or anywhere as far as I know).

[Sniper]

Awww... you know I only mock that which I respect so highly :D

...how about an apprenticeship?

Yup, I do. and Im really flattered :)

Apprenticeship aye? Never thought of that... I might think about it, until then, what can you offer in skills?

[Donor]

Yup, I do. and Im really flattered :)

Apprenticeship aye? Never thought of that... I might think about it, until then, what can you offer in skills?

Hmmm... a keen eye, a sharp wit and the unwavering ability to remove tact on prolific posters who so unashamedly sully our beloved forums with their repetitive ways.

Oh, and I have beer.

[Sniper]

Hmmm... a keen eye, a sharp wit and the unwavering ability to remove tact on prolific posters who so unashamedly sully our beloved forums with their repetitive ways.

Oh, and I have beer.

Beer?!? Hmmm, you have my attention.

Are you able to calmly point and laugh at those that get all flustered when being told repost?
Are you able to search before offering a repost comment?
Are you able to make up decorative ways of saying repost?

I do need someone with the ability of removing tact from those that pollute our forums.....

[Chisanga]

Hmmm... a keen eye, a sharp wit and the unwavering ability to remove tact on prolific posters who so unashamedly sully our beloved forums with their repetitive ways.

Oh, and I have beer.

He can build a mean garden shed as well :)

[Donor]

Beer?!? Hmmm, you have my attention.

Are you able to calmly point and laugh at those that get all flustered when being told repost?
Are you able to search before offering a repost comment?
Are you able to make up decorative ways of saying repost?

I do need someone with the ability of removing tact from those that pollute our forums.....

Calmly point and laugh? Absolutely - I've been to weddings, much experience there.

Search? My gods, Google is my home page... searching is your friend!

Decorative? thesaurus.com is good for that...

As for removing tact - well, being married to a pom for 7 years, I lost true tact many moons ago...

[Sniper]

Calmly point and laugh? Absolutely - I've been to weddings, much experience there.

Search? My gods, Google is my home page... searching is your friend!

Decorative? thesaurus.com is good for that...

As for removing tact - well, being married to a pom for 7 years, I lost true tact many moons ago...

Hmmmm, we could use a man like you. My apprentice, you shall become

[Beemer]

Hmmmm, we could use a man like you. My apprentice, you shall become

I'm gutted. If I had known offering beer (I have beer, lots of it! And whiskey - and whisky too!) would have led to an apprenticeship, I would have spoken up much sooner. Can't we become a team? Our names both end in 'er' whereas Donor's ends in 'or' so it makes sense. And I bet my dictionary is bigger than his - and I have TWO different copies of Roget's... please?:apint:

[heyjoe]

i received this email today from a lady friend please read and watch out For you and or your kids safety

PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I was approached in the Pak n Save

Carpark in Taupo by two males, asking what kind of perfume I was wearing. Then they asked if I'd like to sample some fabulous scent they were willing to sell me at.....JUST TOO TRUSTING...

The people that write this shit are a bunch of dicks who enjoy knowing that there are people out there that will take some action over their silly games or scaremongering folk who are not so well informed. These stories and all like them all bear the most common hallmark of urban lengends ie an instruction telling you to pass this on to everyone you know or in your addess book etc etc. Doing so just clogs up the internet, ISP servers and peoples mailboxes. The best thing you can do is ignore the instruction and delete it. Never pass it on otherwise you are being part of the nuisance factor of the whole childish game. Even here it has caused a fair bit of discussion and it is a total waste of time. The only good thing that has come out of this I guess is the fact that some people are now more aware of this shit and will take the appropriate action in the future ie hit delete.

[Sniper]

I'm gutted. If I had known offering beer (I have beer, lots of it! And whiskey - and whisky too!) would have led to an apprenticeship, I would have spoken up much sooner. Can't we become a team? Our names both end in 'er' whereas Donor's ends in 'or' so it makes sense. And I bet my dictionary is bigger than his - and I have TWO different copies of Roget's... please?:apint:

Ahh, but you do not need to become and apprentice. You have proven your skills and already are an asset to the "Stopping of the Reposts" (TM)

Donor on the other hand needs some guidance. I can see him becoming a strong weapon in TWAR and he shall need both of our assistance.