Stay out of the Malls on Halloween!

[DisneyFreak]

This email was received today in our offices. I don't know how much water this holds but now a days you never know and I felt I should pass this on to you.

We here in Minnesota usually have thousands of children trick or treating in the Mall of America on Halloween. The Mall of America BTW, is located right across interstate 494 from the airport.


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Please read the e-mail below. Especially since, in Minneapolis, you have
one of the more famous malls. The woman referred to in the e-mail who dated
a guy from Afghanistan is a friend of someone who works with my wife.

Bill Didsbury
Division Support Analyst (DSA)
Orlando/Thompson/Palm Beach
U.S. Home Corp.


-----Original Message-----
From: merozanc@chemcentral.com [mailto:merozanc@chemcentral.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:09 AM
To: didsburyw@ushome.com
Subject: Fwd: FW: Stay out of the Malls on 10/31


Yours Truly,

Maggie Rozanc
----- Forwarded by Maggie E. Rozanc/CHEMCENTRAL on 10/11/01 09:04 AM -----



OK, here you go......this could be a hoax but I'm going to pass it on
anyway
because I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to my
loved ones and I didn't pass it on.....

Denise L. Kadlec
OCTA-Contracts Administration and Materials Management


> I got this from one of my vendors who contacted the originator of this
> message, and she is standing by her story.
> I checked out the facts on Snopes.com, and they cannot verify whether or
> not this is false.
> I wanted to forward it on to you all.... just in case.
> * Jo
> _________________________________________________________________________
> ____________________
> Hi All
> I think you all know that I don't send out
> hoaxes and don't do the reactionary thing and send out anything that
> crosses my path. This one, however, is a friend of a friend and I've
> given it enough credibility in my mind that I'm writing it up and
sending
> it out to all of you.
> My friend's friend was dating a guy from
> Afghanistan up until a month ago.
> She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was
> understandably
> upset and went to his home to find it completely
> emptied.
> On 9/10, she received a letter from her
> boyfriend explaining that he wished he could tell her why he had left
> and
> that he was sorry it had to be like that. The part worth mentioning is
> that
> he BEGGED her not to
> get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not to go any malls on
> Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called the
> FBI and has since turned over the letter.
> This is not an email that I've received and decided to pass on. This
came
> from a phone conversation with a long-time friend of mine last night.
> I may be wrong, and I hope I am. However, with one of his warnings
> being
> correct and devastating, I'm not willing to take the chance on the
> second
> and wanted to make sure that people I cared about had the same
> information that I did.
>
> Laura Katsis
> Implementation Specialist
> >
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> delete all copies of this message

 

[WDW-Imagineer]

Its a HOAX

Although last time I posted something saying it was a hoax, I was flamed and yelled at....

 

[mightyduck]

WDWI-

a) no one flamed you
b) haven't yeu learned yet that it's not what you say but the way you say it?


Freak, I've received two other emails similar to that today.... Sounds like urban legend to me.... But better safe than sorry, perhaps...

 

[dopey]

no, no, no. it's true. only it's before, during and after halloween. boy, it was sure tough to have to tell my wife about that. it just breaks my heart that we can't go the mall. ever.

i understand the only safe places these days are local taverns and bowling alleys because, um, you can use pool sticks, darts and shot glasses as counterterrorism weapons.

what're you gonna protect yourself with at a mall? fake trees? oh, that's right, malls have security guards. i always feel safe around mall security guards.

 

[Ariel]

Originally posted by dopey

what're you gonna protect yourself with at a mall? fake trees? oh, that's right, malls have security guards. i always feel safe around mall security guards.

Well, after all, their motto is to serve and protect, right? Serve and protect what is a totally different thing. :hammer:

 

[The Mom]

DF, I don't know if the e-mail is a hoax or not, but it has all of the earmarks. I would ask your wife to pin down the exact source ...can she personally identify the recipient of the letter? I mean more than so & so's friend...I've done that, and discovered that the person(friend of a friend) I traced was still not the original, but knew someone who knew the person, if you know what I mean. This is not to imply in any way that your wife is being naive...I would be concerned, also! It's just that people tend to get upset if you question something that someone they trust has passed along to them.

I would assume that if it is true, the authorities would just close the mall, or increase security. Why a mall? Wouldn't it be easier to attack a football game, or maybe Macy's parade? The targets are endless...I refuse to stay home until this is over, which might be the rest of my life!

 

[mightyduck]

Originally posted by marciahahn
DF, I don't know if the e-mail is a hoax or not, but it has all of the earmarks. I would ask your wife to pin down the exact source ...can she personally identify the recipient of the letter? I mean more than so & so's friend...I've done that, and discovered that the person(friend of a friend) I traced was still not the original, but knew someone who knew the person, if you know what I mean. This is not to imply in any way that your wife is being naive...I would be concerned, also! It's just that people tend to get upset if you question something that someone they trust has passed along to them.

I would assume that if it is true, the authorities would just close the mall, or increase security. Why a mall? Wouldn't it be easier to attack a football game, or maybe Macy's parade? The targets are endless...I refuse to stay home until this is over, which might be the rest of my life!

Marcia-

WDWI's link to Snopes shows it's a hoax... Good call!

But Freak, thanks for your concern.

 

[The Mom]

Originally posted by mightyduck


Marcia-

WDWI's link to Snopes shows it's a hoax... Good call!

But Freak, thanks for your concern.

Thanks, mighty! I didn't notice that WDW-I's post contained a link.

I'm very familiar with the snopes site...if WDW-I thinks we flame him, don't even THINK about posting in their forum!!! (the Urban Legends discussion group)

 

[mightyduck]

Originally posted by marciahahn


Thanks, mighty! I didn't notice that WDW-I's post contained a link.

I'm very familiar with the snopes site...if WDW-I thinks we flame him, don't even THINK about posting in their forum!!! (the Urban Legends discussion group)

I didn't either at first, but in my restless search for interactivity, I wiggled my mouse over it and clicked because it was underlined--it was a link!

LOL...Okay then, I'll stay out of there....

 

[MonorailBlack]

Thanx for the link....it is too early to dismiss anything...I live in Miami, really far south next to an Air Force Base and a nuclear power plant. 24-7 there are fighter planes in the air and circling...it is almost eeire....alot of army personel in the area and I am appreciative. Just thought I would tell you that....not to mention all that anthrax started in this state...these people have alot of nerve to use one of the best states to 'hang out'!!!!