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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
 Posted - 07/06/2001 : 20:50:10
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A friend sent me this in a mass emailing to many people. I don't think she meant it as a joke, nor do I know if she believes it. She's always sending 'news' stories to me. If it's not true, LOL, who makes this stuff up? They need writers in Hollywood!
How could anyone find this plausible?
On a possitive note, if one needs to loose weight, this could be read each night before going to sleep!
'' A little boy died because surgeons found ants in his brain! Apparently this boy had fallen asleep with some sweets in his mouth or with some sweet stuff beside him. Ants soon got to him and some ants in fact crawled into his ear which somehow managed to go to his brain. When he woke up, he did not realise that ants had gone to his head. After that, he constantly complains about itchiness around his face. His mother brought him to see a doctor but the doctor could not figure out what was wrong with him. He took an X-ray of the boy and to his horror, he found a group of live ants in his skull. Since the ants are still alive, the doctor could not operate on him cuz the ants are constantly moving about. The boy at last died. So please be careful when leaving foodstuff beside your bed or when eating in bed. This might attract ants. Most importantly, NEVER eat a sweet before going to bed. You might fall asleep and suffer same fate as the little boy.''
"It's all hype, until you prove it"
T.
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
 Posted - 07/06/2001 : 21:09:56 [Permalink]
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I find it entertaining to go to www.truthorfiction.com or www.urbanlegends.com or www.snopes2.com when I get emails like this, to try and find confirmation of their accuracy, and then send it back to all the people on the original mailing list. Most of the time I quickly find them to be false, but occasionally I find one that is true. (Calling a certain area code does indeed charge your phone bill a ridiculous amount!)
I doubt this is one of the true ones! 
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2001 : 11:00:16 [Permalink]
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I've worked with people who believe every freakin' thing that hit their inboxes. I've never understood that. Isn't the real world strange and interesting enough? What's even more frustrating that their gullibility, is that most of this stuff can be debunked so easily. Yet they choose to believe instead of digging up a few facts.
Lisa
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