just received an email saying......................

[jodie1404]

A woman at a nightclub on Saturday night was taken by 5 men, who according
>to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before dumping her. Unable
>to remember the events of the evening, tests later confirmed the repeat
>rapes and along with traces of Rohypnol in her blood, was Progesterex,
>which is essentially a small sterilization pill. The drug is now being used
>by rapists at parties to rape AND sterilize their victims.
>Progesterex is available to vets to sterilize large animals.
>Rumour has it that Progesterex is being used together with Rohypnol, the
>date rape drug. As with Rohypnol, all they have to do is drop it into the
>girl's drink. The girl can't remember a thing the next morning, of all that
>had taken place the night before. Progesterex, which dissolves in drinks
>just as easily, is such that the victim doesn't conceive from the rape and
>the rapist >>>needn't worry about having a paternity test identifying him
>months later. The drug's effects ARE NOT TEMPORARY- They are
>P*E*R*M*A*N*E*N*T! Progesterex was designed to sterilize horses.
>Any female who takes it WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE. The weasels can get
>this drug from anyone who is in the vet school or any university. It's that
>easy, and Progesterex is about to break out big everywhere.
>Believe it or not, there are even sites on the Internet telling people how
to use it. Please COPY (NOT FORWARD) this to >everyone you know, especially
girls.> Be careful when you're out and don't leave your drink unattended.
>Please make the effort to PASS this on to all you know...        -----does any1 know if this is this true

[qapmoc]

Hi,   is this for real or just another "urban legend" in a chain letter.

[WaldoMcFroog]

The Urban Legends website (always the first port of call when you receive this kind of thing) says it's rubbish.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/progest.htm

"No drug called Progesterex exists, no pill for permanently sterilizing horses or other Ban me! large animals is used by veterinarians or sold on the market, no campuses have reported any students becoming the victims of sterilization-by-drug, and the URL cited offers no information "telling people how to use" Progesterex. "

[WaldoMcFroog]

Don't know how 'Ban Me' came to appear in that quote - it was a straight cut and paste of the key info from Snopes, not me being potty mouthed!

[Ward-Minter]

jodie Elvis is alive. I saw him riding Shergar the other day.

[THECORBYLOON]

Waldo, I copied and pasted the section onto a word doc and this shows

 FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=Ban me!"

and "Ban me!" shows as a statement. I must be hidden somehow.  

[Peter Pedant]

If I look out of the window, will I see a full moon?

 

What a howler !  Are there any more hoaxes people want to share ?

[flashpig]

I have some...

Not a hoax so much, but I found Snopes a few years back trying to disprove a (quite common in my school) 'fact' that Coke contains crushed beetle or ant or something. Snopes didn't cover it. Tell me (although it's years too late, I still want to know) I'm right, and it is nonsense.

Also, the pharoah's gold plated chariot wheels being found on the bottom of the red sea. I wanted a discussion about it in Snopes. Quite a lot of people believed it in Christian Union (in fact, it was their first bit of 'evidence' to prove God exists). Why are they not in a museum? Why is this 'proof' only commonly found in christian circles? And why is there no discussion on Snopes?

[THECORBYLOON]

I doubt it is used in Coca-Cola (could it have been in the past?) but there is a food colouring called cochineal which is a scarlet dye made from the crushed dried bodies of a female scale insect.

 

[flashpig]

So I was wrong?

[WaldoMcFroog]

Coke uses colouring E150. Cochineal is (was - I thin it may be no longer used) E120.

As for "pharaoh's chariot wheels", putting that expression into Google brings up a number of articles, the first includes a picture. It is, however, a Christian site so their objectivitity is a little suspect. It seems obvoius that there are plenty of ways in which a chariot or cart or whatever wheel could end up at the bottom of the sea (I believe there were these things called boats that were used to transport things about, and they occasionally sank, for example) without leaping to the rather far-fetched conclusion 'A wheel at the bottom of the sea? It must be Pharaoh's, proving God really did part the Red Sea'...

[january_bug]

jodie1404 - the story is not true.  The moral of the story is correct though of course.  When in nightclubs I always drink things like VK cos they come in a bottle and I can keep my finger over the top.  Not so much fear of date rape, just that I've never taken pills in my life and don't fancy starting just because some moron thinks it would be funny to pop a bit in my drink. 

We girls (and increasingly the guys) know that we shouldn't head home on our own, and should always text each other to say we're home. 

The email is a horror story designed to get it home to people that they need to look after each other when they're out.  You have to ask yourself - where were the girl's friends!?!  When you're out - are you looking after yours!?!

Happy/safe partying everyone!!  :-)