Safety message

**RC1** · 28th April 2007, 21:38

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** · 28th April 2007, 21:43

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!!

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!!

URBAN LEGEND ALERT!!!

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

**Croft** · 28th April 2007, 21:44

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

**Edbear** · 28th April 2007, 21:49

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** · 28th April 2007, 22:04

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** · 28th April 2007, 23:17

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** · 29th April 2007, 06:48

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

**raster** · 29th April 2007, 08:00

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

**PuppetMaster** · 29th April 2007, 08:51

Computers are not your friend.

**Donor** · 29th April 2007, 08:56

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** · 29th April 2007, 09:59

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

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

**Curious_AJ** · 29th April 2007, 12:43

*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** · 29th April 2007, 12:57

Originally Posted by RCTL

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** · 29th April 2007, 13:08

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.