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Health and Safety Notice


Please find below
a safety notice from the police
regarding safety when using
public seating or vending machines.

Several weeks ago,
in the odeon cinema, Festival Park,
Stoke on Trent, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats.
When she stood up to see what it was,
a needle was found poking through the seat
with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV".

The Centres for Disease Control in Birmingham,
reports similar events have taken place
in several other cities recently.

ALL of the needles tested HAVE been found positive for HIV.
The CDC also reports that needles have been found in
the coin return areas of pay phones and coke machines.

Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations.
All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use.
A thorough visual inspection is considered the bare minimum.
Further more, they ask that
everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well.

The previous information was sent from Hanley police station
to all of the local councils in the Staffs area and was interdepartmentally dispersed.

We were all asked to pass this to as many people as possible.

Paul McCarrick
District Health and Safety Officer
Greater Manchester East
Middleton DO
Tel. No. 0161 654 2089
FNet. 78717 5089
Mobile. 0777 194 2602
[email protected]
Chris Evans
Health and Safety Risk Manager
DHL Freight UK

If it's so real, then call Mr. McCarrick, ask him.


Marzman wrote:
> Paul McCarrick
> Tel. No. 0161 654 2089
> Mobile. 0777 194 2602
> [email protected]

Mozzy wrote:
> It's not fake, my mum works for the council and it was sent to her
> department by the police.
>
> I never knew it was happening at the UCI Cinema in Basildon! I go
> there almost every week!


It is fake you tool. Find me a genuine BBC or other decent news site article about it and then I will believe you. But you won't be able to, because it's fake!

Meh. Stories like this have been doing the rounds for years. When I was a teenager, it was supposedly some maniac going round the clubs injecting random people on the dancefloor (and miraculously disappearing before the bouncers could get them)

Marzman wrote:
> Stoke on Trent, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats.
> When she stood up to see what it was,
> a needle was found poking through the seat
> with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with
> HIV".

Phrased like a true myth... There's no way this is true.

Niddle wrote:
> It's fake.

It's not fake, my mum works for the council and it was sent to her department by the police.

I never knew it was happening at the UCI Cinema in Basildon! I go there almost every week!

I'll make sure I put my metal boxers on when ever I go there from now on...

More like The Daily Mail.

RoJ wrote:
> Because some people like to wind others up and find glee in creating
> chaos and misinformation.

The BBc

Because some people like to wind others up and find glee in creating chaos and misinformation.

RoJ wrote:
> It's an urban legend, made up to scare people.
>
> [URL]http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp[/URL]
>
> [URL]http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec80226b9c[/URL]

oh, good.I was thinking that it was a strange thing to do.

RoJ wrote:
> It's an urban legend, made up to scare people.

Could well be &if that is the case why would you want to put that idea into someones head