HALOWEEN SHOPPING MALL ALERT

Undisclosed | October 10, 2001 | Gargantua

[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

[Bubba_Leroy]

It won’t hurt anyone if they stay out of shopping malls on Halloween, and this turns out to be incorrect.

Other than the retail store owners and their employees, many of whom will be out of work if the sheeple start hiding in response to every Internet hoax that comes out.

[Robe]

I got this e-mailed to me this morning.

The worst thing that can happen to this country now is to have a financial collapse. We are slowly recovering from the 9/11 hit. I consider this type of stuff to be psyops. It is designed to disrupt the American way of life, and its right out of OBL's Terror manual

[Cleburne]

Are flea markets and outdoor malls safe? What about online-shopping? And why not Wal-Mart? Is the stuff in the bag marked flour really anthrax? Is my soap really anthrax? Is this anthrax on my keybo....agh!

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Some malls host trick-o-treat for kids, going from store to store. This so the parents can have them inside instead of running around the streets.

[spald]

We are witnessing an urban legend unfolding.

"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."

Too much compassion.

[Movemout]

Did the letter say anything about 7-11s? I ask because I have seen a number of mideastern looking men at many 7-11s. They may be casing the place from the inside.

[js1138]

What about mini-malls? Can I go to mini-malls?

What about strip malls? The 7-11?

[error99]

I believe you have been had...

[Movemout]

Come to think of it, I'm getting real suspicious about gas stations too.

[peteram]

Snopes.com says:
.....statements of undetermined or ambiguous veracity.

[crazy aunt in the attic]

Not shopping. Lots of parents take their kids to trick or treat at the local mall on Holloween.

[PRND21]

Strip Mall?

[The KG9 Kid]

Next thing I expect to hear is that 'Afghani gangbangers will be travelling the highways shooting at cars with American flags on their radio antennae this weekend'.

Good grief.

If it sounds like BS, it almost always is.

Now, watch: Everyone's going to get an email warning that 'Afghani gangbangers will be shooting at cars this weekend', just because I completely fabricated that here on FR.

[Slip18]

Thanks, TMMT.

I now feel like an idiot! Apparently this has been going around the Internet. I don't get a whole lot of junk mail . . .

[camle]

Snopes shows it as indeterminate, yellow dot.

[Interloper]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmall-terror.htm

[dead]

The Relentless Internet Hoax Fab Four!

[Cleburne]

7-11's are really the enemy's secret base of operations. Try buyin REAL tinfoil there, the kind that blocks mind transmisions. You can't! They're everywhere!!!!!! AHHGG!!!!!

[spectre]

Geeze, and to think all we used to be worried about was X-Raying the candy for razor-blades... Oh, for the good old days...sigh

sw

[Slip18]

How can you do that so fast, dead? I haven't seen this one yet.