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Author's Note: The original Poisonous
Payphone story comes from Snopes.com. Once again, this story was
passed along by email, by an unknown
"do-gooder" who informs the reader to pass along the email even if
they
don't read it themselves. The original email tells how LSD and
Strychnine are deadly when mixed, because they are absorbed by the
human skin and then they kill you. Also in the original email is the
reason for placing the deadly drug mixture on the payphone
parts...gang member initiation. I left that part out because it was not
pertinent to my story, although gang initiation is a very popular
element to all types of urban legends. This email lists the name of the
sender as Tina
Strongman, who works as a 911 telephone operator, and who has received
emergency phone calls about this kind of poisoning. She even claims
people have died from these incidents, specifically, in incidents on
the east coast. Turns out it is all false. Ms. Strongman does
not list a city, a state, or any relevant information about a specific
incident that would make
this believable. Not to mention that there have been no reports of
this kind of poisoning actually happening anywhere! In fact, your hands
would have to be incredibly sweaty when you touch the drug ridden phone
part, or else the dry drug mixture would not absorb into your skin.
Those are some of the reasons why this urban legend has been busted!
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Image Information:
AT&T Payphone.
Image from PBS.org.
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