PLEASE FIND THE ATTACHED WARNING FROM THE AMBULANCE SERVICE.

Friends,
This message is serious and has been passed to us from Cheshire RFU.
Could you please cascade as quickly as possible as this came through our
NHS web page. For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in the odeon
cinema, Festival Park, a person sat on something sharp in one of the
seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking
through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected
with HIV". The Centres for Disease Control in Birmingham, reports
similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. ALL of
the needles tested HAVE been found positive for HIV. The CDC also
reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay
phones and coke machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when
confronted with these types of situations. All public chairs should be
thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual
inspection is considered the bare minimum. Further more, they ask that
everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential
dangers, as well. The previous information was sent from hanley police
station to all of the local councils in the Staffs area and was
interdepartmentally dispersed. We were all asked to pass this to as many
people as possible."

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Oh no, not this one again - it's a HOAX!!!

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/hivneedles.html

jesus, more scaremongering and panic spreading. wonder what snopes has to say about this one

This has appeared on a couple of forums that I belong to.

If it is a hoax it's a pretty sick one.

Peggy

This has done the rounds a few times.
Safe to ignore this one I think

I do wish people would do a tiny bit of research before posting this sort of WARNING!!!!!!!

May 1999 (and bogus)
"For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in a Dallas movie theater, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV". The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. All of the needles tested HAVE been found positive for HIV. The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and soda machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations. All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is conssidered the bare minimum. Further more, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well. Thank you. The previous information was sent from the Dallas Police Department to all of the local governments in the Washington area and was interdepartmentally dispersed. We were all asked to pass this to as many people as possible."

1994 and also totally bogus
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin and I lived in Sugarland, TX. On October 2cd, 1994 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the back of his pull-up and simply said "Mommy, it hurts." But I couldn't find anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point when I found a welt on his left buttock. Upon investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter under the welt. I made an appointment to have it taken out the next day, but soon he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back into his head. From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off inside. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from heroine overdose. The next week, the police removed the balls from the ball pit and lo and behold. There was rotten food, several hypodermic needles:
some full; some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, and the stench of urine. If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where? You can find the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10,
1994 issue of the Houston Chronicle. Please forward this to all loving mothers!

You can also find, "LSD on the petrol pump handle", "LSD and strychnine on a pay phone's keys and coin slot", and a host of others that the quickest internet search using the engine of your choice and putting the word Hoax in the search along with a couple of the key words will show you if a WARN EVERYBODY email is real or not. They are about 99.99% bogus.

My (misconception perhaps) is that Aids and HIV are dry viruses, meaning they do not live outside of a host for any great period of time.

In other words, a syringe, covered in HIV infected blood, should (in theory) be relatively safe once it has been outside the human body for any more than say ten minutes or so, and possibly some time before (in ideal good conditions the virus can be killed in as little as 2 minutes).

Obviously the length of time for the virus to die depends on environmental factors, and safety should be adhered to (i.e. being tested if there is the possibility of infection), but generally speaking even if this story was true (I believe it's a bit of an urban legend), then the risk would be -fairly- low.

Hoax or not i still wouldnt want a small prick in my bum thankyou very much

This one is certainly in the wild again - I've just been sent it at work so have had the usual pleasure of debunking it.....



http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp


C.

How would they get a needle with a note attached in the seat anyway?