Re: virus: Urban Legends

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:16:03 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Corey A. Cook wrote:

> Here's a pretty good one:
> A man working for a long-distance phone service in KC goes to Chicago
> for a company workshop. The workshop starts on Friday, and ends on Sunday.
> He goes to the Friday workshop, and afterwards goes out to a bar with some
> friends. He meets a woman at the bar, and they leave to go back to her
> place. The next day, noone sees him at the workshop. On Sunday, he is
> still missing. Unfortunatly, he didn't have any really close friends, so
> nobody noticed until he failed to show up for the flight back to KC. The
> company starts a search for him, but they can't find any clues. A few days
> later, a tip is recieved. When the police go to the address that the tip
> gave, they find him in a bathtub full of ice. They take him out of the tub
> and take him to a hospital, where it is discovered that his liver (or was it
> kidney?) had been removed. No one was arrested, and the cop have no leads.
> The official report states that the operation was probably performed by a
> med student, who sold the organ on the black market in order to pay for
> tuition.
>
> Creepy, huh?

The creepy part is that I heard this one from a friend that works for the
FAA. She received an offical Governmental Travel Warning about this.
Apparently its happened more than once and the victom wakes up in the tub
with an I.V. attatched and a note taped to his chest that reads, "DON"T
PANIC. Call 911."

-Prof. Tim