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| "Israeli melons have AIDS!" warns SMS message |
| 2007-04-14 |
| by Roee Nahmias, YNet News "Beware of Israeli melons infected with AIDS arriving in Saudi Arabia!" is the latest rumor being spread throughout Saudi Arabia like a wildfire. An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, "The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a 'ground corridor.'" The Interior Minister's spokesman General Mansour al Turki responded to news of the message and made it clear to a-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Ministry "did not issue any such announcement. This is just a rumor." . . . Al Turki urged the public to ignore such passing rumors, and said that the authorities were doing everything in their power to ensure the citizens' wellbeing. . . . Head of the center for chemicals and toxins in Mecca, Dr Ahmad Elias also stressed that there was no truth to these rumors. . . . "The HIV virus cannot survive in any temperature other than that of the human body, which cannot be reached in fruits," he explained. "Fruits" can't reach the temperature of the human body, eh? That'll be news in San Francisco. [rim shot] Jules Crittenden comments: Presumeably a melon gets AIDS the same way everyone else does. Brings to mind that old Middle Eastern proverb: For love, a woman; for pleasure, a boy; but for sheer ecstacy Â… a melon. |
| Posted by:Mike |