My brother just forwarded this email to me....I thought everyone should read it!

Read this before your next gas fill-up.


Folks:
Please take a couple minutes to read this warning about Gas Pumping
Handles. Warning: Look at the gas pump handle BEFORE you pump your gas.
Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives a car.


My name is Captain Abraham Sands of the Jacksonville, Florida, Police
Department. I have been asked by state and local authorities to write this email in
order to get the word out to car drivers of a very dangerous prank that is
occurring in numerous states. Some person or persons have been affixing
hypodermic needles to the underside of gas pump handles! These needles appear to be
infected with HIV positive blood. In the Jacksonville area alone, there have
been 17 cases of people being stuck by these needles over the past five (5)
months. We have verified reports of at least 12 others in various states
around the country. It is believed that these may be copycat incidents due to
someone reading about the crimes or seeing them reported on television. At this
point no one has been arrested and catching the perpetrator(s) has become our
top priority. Shockingly, of the 17 people who where stuck, 8 have tested
HIV positive and because of the nature of the disease, the others could test
positive in a couple years.


Evidently the consumers go to fill their car with gas, and when picking up
the pump handle get stuck with the infected needle.


IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CAREFULLY CHECK THE HANDLE of the gas pump each time you
use one. LOOK AT EVERY SURFACE YOUR HAND MAY TOUCH, INCLUDING UNDER THE
HANDLE!


If you do find a needle affixed to one, immediately contact your local
police department so they can collect the evidence.


PLEASE HELP US BY MAINTAINING A VIGILANCE, AND BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL TO
ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO DRIVES. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF THIS, THE BETTER
PROTECTED WE CAN ALL BE. Rose Lambert, Chief Aide to Supervisor Gerry
Hyland, Mount Vernon District, 2511 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA 22306.
PLEASE READ THIS AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!!!!

Claim: Service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pump handles.

Status: False.

Examples: [Collected via e-mail, 2000]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/gaspump.asp

Thanks Admin....I just forwarded your email to my brother...

It's ashame how rumors can be spread like this!

That is a really, really old rumor.

I am thinking about investing with this guy in Nigiera.......

The other deviation is "Sitting down on a seat in a dark movie theatre," where "HIV infected needles are planted."

Yet another reason for full service gas stations. Don't let the HIV needles get you -- let them get Ahmed or some family member of his.

Dem Fully Serviced Gnomes

Be Careful at the Full Service Gas Stations! I heard a rumor that when they take your credit card; they dip it in hydro-ANTHRAX! When you take your credit card back - you will be infected - and might die!