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HALOWEEN SHOPPING MALL ALERT
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| October 10, 2001
| Gargantua
Posted on 10/10/2001 11:45:06 AM PDT by Gargantua
SHOPPING MALLS ON HALOWEEN ALERT
(NAME DELETED) ...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 Afghani 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.
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.
FReepers... please refrain from the pattern of flames and nay-saying justifiably generated in historic response to such unsubstantiated postings as this one.
I post this not because I am sure it is valid, but because if it is valid, we all deserve a chance to hear it now. It comes from a dear friend and colleague whom I trust completely. It won’t hurt anyone if they stay out of shopping malls on Halloween, and this turns out to be incorrect.
However, the converse cannot be said, and hence I post this just for an “FYI.”
FReegards
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Better safe than sorry...?
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posted on
10/10/2001 11:45:06 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
To: Gargantua
A piece of unsubstantiated hysteria on the Internet. Who'd have thunk it?
To: Gargantua
I just got this passed along form a girl in our office not more than an hour ago.
3
posted on
10/10/2001 11:47:20 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: Gargantua
Looks like an obvious internet hoax to me.
4
posted on
10/10/2001 11:47:49 AM PDT
by
Callahan
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Didn't this show up as a myth on snopes.com?
:) ttt
5
posted on
10/10/2001 11:47:52 AM PDT
by
detsaoT
To: Gargantua
Another internet legend is born.
To: Gargantua
Well duh, I dont know a single person who is going to go to the Mall this halloween.
For those who dont know, you probably do, but Malls in my neck of the woods let kids come in and merchants pass out candt, the lines are insane. That was until this all happened.
To: Gargantua
Well, I don't know. How could I bear to miss the traditional American Halloween shopping spree?
8
posted on
10/10/2001 11:48:58 AM PDT
by
Ratatoskr
To: Gargantua
What about mini-malls? Can I go to mini-malls?
To: Gargantua
It comes from a dear friend and colleague whom I trust completely. Did your dear-friend-and-colleague-whom-you-trust-completely actually experience this event, or merely send you the latest chain email?
To: Gargantua
Hopefully, by Halloween the Taliban will be so crippled and broke that nothing will happen.
Will keep your FYI in mind. Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
10/10/2001 11:50:00 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: Gargantua
Is your friend the one that dated the Afghan? Or did your friend just pass this to you after having gotten it from someone else?
12
posted on
10/10/2001 11:50:14 AM PDT
by
BearCub
To: Gargantua
Boy, they must have a whole lot of bombs to hit EVERY shopping mall in the US. Come on and think about it.
To: Gargantua
You may trust the friend that sent this but unless she was they one dating the guy from Afghanistan she is just passing along a story.
Anyone can say anything on the Internet.
14
posted on
10/10/2001 11:51:34 AM PDT
by
mlo
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: francisandbeans
Am I that naive? I've never been to a mall on Halloween. Are they crowded?
16
posted on
10/10/2001 11:51:57 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: Gargantua
I'm always looking for a good reason to stay home a cuddle with the little lady.
Guess I'll be spending Halloween evening, with a bottle of Bailey's and a nice warm fire.
Just to be on the safe side, of course...
To: Gargantua
My hunch is that someone is shorting retail stocks.
18
posted on
10/10/2001 11:52:24 AM PDT
by
Atticus
To: detsaoT
Yep, it was on snopes alright.
To: Gargantua
..lessee....9/11....Halloween....letters in Halloween....10....hmmmm....9...10...11...!!!
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posted on
10/10/2001 11:53:14 AM PDT
by
SGCOS
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