• Re: New version of the Halloween candy poisoning/razor blade.

    From dsh@dsh@nospam.invalid to alt.folklore.urban on Sun Dec 5 12:12:06 2021
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:23:50 -0700
    Don Freeman <don@cosmoslair.com> wrote:
    Caught it first on a questionable news site called Archiweekend (via
    the news aggregate site SmartNews), which has been since removed. But
    it is still moving around on Facebook (no surprise there), with the
    source being and even more questionable site called AWM. Which still
    has the article posted:

    Neighbors Are Furious After Anti-Vax Mom Put Something rCLSpecialrCY In
    The Halloween Candy

    <https://awm.com/neighbors-are-furious-after-anti-vax-mom-put-something-special-in-the-halloween-candy-2/>

    No names, no location, no source whatsoever. But I heard it on the
    internet so it must be true.

    Opening paragraph:
    "A rCLnurse,rCY who does not believe in the efficacy of modern medicine
    yet works in the field, has decided to take matters into her own
    hands. Because she is a rabid rCLanti-vaxxer,rCY the nurse decided to
    hand out chickenpox infected lollipops to the innocent children trick-or-treating in her neighborhood. Because she wanted to infect
    the children with the disease to get them all sick from it, she
    thought she was doing the community a good deed."

    i hope the children are okay, really, being infected with chickenpox
    and not being vaccinated against it can kill a child
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  • From Don Freeman@Don@cosmoslair.com to alt.folklore.urban on Mon Dec 6 11:52:01 2021
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    On 12/4/2021 9:12 PM, dsh wrote:
    On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:23:50 -0700
    Don Freeman <don@cosmoslair.com> wrote:

    Caught it first on a questionable news site called Archiweekend (via
    the news aggregate site SmartNews), which has been since removed. But
    it is still moving around on Facebook (no surprise there), with the
    source being and even more questionable site called AWM. Which still
    has the article posted:

    Neighbors Are Furious After Anti-Vax Mom Put Something rCLSpecialrCY In
    The Halloween Candy

    <https://awm.com/neighbors-are-furious-after-anti-vax-mom-put-something-special-in-the-halloween-candy-2/>

    No names, no location, no source whatsoever. But I heard it on the
    internet so it must be true.

    Opening paragraph:
    "A rCLnurse,rCY who does not believe in the efficacy of modern medicine
    yet works in the field, has decided to take matters into her own
    hands. Because she is a rabid rCLanti-vaxxer,rCY the nurse decided to
    hand out chickenpox infected lollipops to the innocent children
    trick-or-treating in her neighborhood. Because she wanted to infect
    the children with the disease to get them all sick from it, she
    thought she was doing the community a good deed."


    i hope the children are okay, really, being infected with chickenpox
    and not being vaccinated against it can kill a child


    I have a feeling that you are not clear on the concept of Urban Legends.
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