? as in people jab other people in cinemas? like.. puncture their skin with the needles? whats it filled with? what motive? for fun ? weirdos... im not going near cinemas.

I haven't heard of this before. it sounds like pure evil. anyone doing it should be beaten to death in the town square.

jabbing people with infected needles? what is the world coming to? who on earth would do such a thing?

Oh I've heard this before, but according to my biology, AIDS cannot "live" out in the open, so I cannot understand how you can be infected by a needle, tho it does happen.
Or am I thinking off something else...I think not

Sigs are so overrated. I would never think of us..uhm nevermind
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Taw - you haven't heard of this? It was rife in England about 5 years ago...well - when i say rife, i mean that it was in the headlines a few times..

Seemed to be a very 'common' occurance - but I think they ensured that doing this sorta thing = strict punishment. Maybe common is misleading, but it seemed to happen several times a year in each big city......mainly on the same nights (obviously).

Edited by - Chips on 10/10/2004 9:27:23 AM

no i haven't! onfg people have been doing this and I didn't even know?

if anyone did this to me or my family, I would kill them. I would beat them to death with my bare hands, and sod the law. i don't think a single right-thinking person would blame me, either. Being burnt alive is too good a punishment for someone who does this. Minor crime? it's a death sentence and/or severe psychological torture.

I did hear that in America some folk who'd contracted AIDS had unprotected sex with healthy ones and then sent them such messages afterwards, but i thought that was just a few spiteful freaks? obv I'm seriously misinformed.

@Taw, some of the rumours about what can cure it is worse

Needles are a number one way aids can be transmited. One reason, which is dumb, that there are programs for drug users to exchange needles for clean ones.

It happened at our local Cinema. The needle was stuck upright in a chair and some poor sod went and sat on it. HIV positive.

There was an article in The Sun Newspaper as well that some guy who was HIV positive had unprotected sex with his partner because he found out she was cheating. She was unaware he had AIDS so he got a right kick out of telling her. If i had been her, i would have made him wish that he hadn't done what he did. He got a life sentence for murder which is what he had effectively done to his poor girlfriend.

We also had it 2 years ago at my secondary school. Used heroin needles left in the student car park. No more than 200 yards up the road was an infant school. God only knows what could have happened if one of those children had touched it. When i found out about it i flipped. I just can't understand people sometimes

that's utterly horrifying I've never heard of anything quite so wicked in recent times. what an absolute disgrace our society has become.

Hate to burst your bubble Taw, but, in the US over a period of at least 25 years, people have hidden drugs, glass, and needles in Halloween candy and fruit that little children would be eating later. Its so bad now, that hospitals will voluntarily X-ray the candy for you for free. The little ones can still get "High" thanks to these nuts.

Bloody Sickos i wouldn't mind rounding them all up and torching them with a flamethrower, thats just inhumane doing that to little kids

burst my bubble? my god FD that's terrible. I never knew such things went on still it's better to know than live in ignorance, i suppose.

trick-or-treating is getting quite popular over here these days. it's also rather unpopular as well, as many people see it as an annoyance, or even an intimidation, q apart from it the general disdain of it being a foreign idea brought about by the influence of imported television culture. so i can see a propensity for similar dreadful things to happen here, which is tragic.

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why (i think) i'm reacting so strongly to this..

I'm dreadfully depressed about the state of the world at the moment. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and so forth, our lying and corrupt government, the trampling of ordinary people's rights, the soaring cost of living, the insecurity of emloyment, ill-educated foreign migrants swarming into the country, the mass popularity of demeaning diversions (the hit UK television programme of the moment, the Farm, features an attractive female minor celeb pleasuring a pig - really. it was disgusting) and now learning about this. it's just dreadful. i weep for the world we've allowed to come about.

my son was bored this afternoon, his friends weren't in and he had nothing to do - I wanted to send him outside to play, but you can't do that anymore. when i was his age i could happily go wandering around and find something to do, even if it was only conkering or kicking a football, but of course these days you can't take the risk of letting them out of your sight. that made me feel really bad. so i took him out to Toys'R'Us.

on a totally unrelated note, but it's a contributory factor im my current bleak world-view, one of the telecomms firms wanted to put a huge mobile phone mast in the middle of our village square. it was not unsurprisingly resisted by the local community and was defeated soundly at the Council's Planning Committe meeting. And everybody thought that was that.

not so, unfortunately. the Telecomms company immediately took the case to the Secretary of the Environment (who's a senior Government Minister for those who don't know the UK political structure) who kindly agreed to give them an emergency dispensation, at 3:40am in the morning.. wtf? the workers to put up the mast were already on site with the thing pre-assembled and erected it in the wee hours. we woke up to find the thing standing there in all its glory - with a policeman guarding it!

said Telecomms company is a contributor to Labour Party funds and is one of the current British Govts main supporters in the business world. it has been awarded with seceral lucrative contracts in the British occupation sector of Iraq.

now, am i wrong to smell something very rotten here?

as a coda to this story (not an epilogue, though) brave Tawaka erm Wolstantonian resistance forces have sabotaged the offending mast several times since it's construction, and it is regularly defaced and covered in graffiti. Armed local factions, as yet unidentified have taken shots at it, damaging the delicate transceiver structure, rendering it useless until repaired.

Resistance isn't futile.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/10/2004 3:00:06 PM

@sw....

If the needle in question is a hypodermic needle that has been used by an infected person, there is a small culture of tainted blood within it. If it is then used on another person, there is a chance that this culture would be transferred to a new host.

Usually, however, it takes positive pressure through the hypodermic to deliver the tainted blood to a new victim but I suppose that there is some chance that even if just the needle, it could deliver the "goods" so to speak.

Very sad to hear that it is happening in your country zlo. The human race is heavily populated with sick minds.

i heard about drug smugglers putting HIV positive needles into car seats so if anybody attempted to find the drugs stashed away by sitting down they'd feel a sharp prick, and sure enough would be HIV positive...

As some of you may or may not know, I was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness, I no longer am though... They aren't allowed to do most things the rest of the world indulges in... including clubbing, etc. and I heard about a bloke who decided he'd go against it all and go out clubbing with some old school mates...and as soon as he walked into a club he felt a jab in his side... He ignored it, but the next morning when he woke up and went to get his wallet out of his jeans back pocket he found a note saying 'Welcome to the AIDS club...' and sure enough he was found to have AIDS... His first night clubbing in his whole life, and no doubt his last...

That story sh1t me up big time... It made me kinda paranoid about going out, especially in Nottingham, which is the nearest big city to where I live, and you've all heard about the two murders in St. Ann's near the Goose Fair? Yup, that's where I live...

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