Tuesday, May 25, 2004

A new hoax's in town

Got this email from my high school class' yahoogroup:
A woman at a nightclub on Saturday night was taken by 5 men, who according to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before dumping her.

Unable to remember the events of the evening,tests later confirmed the repeat rapes along with traces of rohypnol in her blood, Progesterex,that is an essentially a small sterilization pill.

The drug is now being used by rapists at parties to rape AND sterilize their victims.

Progesterex is available to vets to sterilize large animals. Rumour has it that the Progesterex is being used together with Rohypnol, the date rape drug. As with Rohypnol, all they have to do is drop it into the girl's drink. The girl can't remember a thing the next morning, of all that had taken place the night before.

Progesterex, which dissolves in drinks just as easily, is such that the victim doesn't conceive from the r ape and the rapist needn't worry about having a paternity test identifying him months
later.

The drug's effects ARE NOT TEMPORARY - They are P*E*R*M*A*N*E*N*T

Progesterex was designed to sterilize horses. Any female who takes it WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE. The weasels can get this drug from anyone who is in the vet school or any university. It's that easy,and Progesterex is about to break out big on campuses everywhere.

Believe it or not, there are even sites on the Internet telling people how to use it. Please forward this to everyone you know, especially girls. Be careful when you're out and don't leave your drink unattended. Please make the effort to forward this on to all you know...

Guys, please inform all your female friends and relatives.

i decided to blog about this warning and so i wanted to find out more about this drug Progesterex to so i did a google search on it.

it turns out that the whole thing was a hoax. a reliable site, the Trendmicro site, even showed a version of the email above. other sites are here, here and here.

although this particular email is a hoax, and that progesterex is myth, Rohypnol is very real. the National Women's Health Information Center of the US, clearly warns women about such "date rape drugs." so the threat remains.

so in order to clarify any confusion in this post, let me repeat, Rohypnol is very real, and is used as a date rape drug. so ladies, beware!

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