Scare Chains
Scare Chains are a special class of Urban Legend that purport to be warnings for the ladies (or others). They tell terrible stories about people (usually women and children) who are out and about and who have something awful happen to them. While the stories tend to give good advise, the actual events depicted in them are usually made-up or based on something that happened years ago. They certainly do not depict a current event. Consider, if any of these things happened recently, you would be reading about it in your local newspaper or seeing it on the TV news.
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Bad Guy Selling Perfume
September 2000
This one says a bad guy is selling perfume which is actually ether and they are going to haul you away when you pass out. Sounds like the plot of another slasher movie. The problems with it are that simply taking a sniff of ether or chloroform will not knock you out. That only happens in the movies. You must breath them through a saturated rag for several seconds before you start to go under. So, as long as you don't stick the perfume bottle up your nose and snort the liquid up into your sinuses, you are not going to be knocked out. Again, don't send this on.
<font color="#5b5b5b" size="1">[ November 18, 2004 01:16 AM: Message edited by: Fiona-A ]</font>
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