Arab Times hoaxed by Burundanga: Dizzy headlines galore Arab Times today front-paged [print and online] a story about Burundanga drug being used in Kuwait over laced business cards. Seems they didnt cross check Google before publishing their stories of women being offered burundanga laced cards. Strangely the first story of a woman getting laced card at a petrol station is a hoax email on various sites if you search through Google. And I wonder why the men who pass these cards around don't faint themselves or are they wearing gas masks or is this potion gender biased!! Hmm..someone at Arab Times has been over-zealous in publishing. "One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention." Jim Rohn--- On Mon, 9/3/09, Norman Noronha <norman_noronha@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Norman Noronha <norman_noronha@hotmail.com>
Subject: ARAB TIMES DATED 09.03.09
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Date: Monday, 9 March, 2009, 5:34 PM
| Cards laced with drug to incapacitate victims | KUWAIT CITY, March 8: Emails have been going around Kuwait asking women not to accept business cards from strangers as some of these cards are said to contain a potent drug known as 'burundanga', which may incapacitate a person. Burundanga comes from Brugmansia, a genus consisting of several species of indigenous flowering plants in the subtropical regions of South America. It is also known as scopolamine, which is commonly used to treat nausea, vomiting and many other conditions. Medical experts say "an overdose of the drug can cause drowsiness, dizziness, agitation, fever excitability, seizures or convulsions, hallucinations, coma and death." One of the emails has been reproduced below:
"A man came over and offered his service as a painter to a female putting gas in her car and left his card. She said no, but accepted his card out of kindness and got in her vehicle. The man then got into a car driven by someone else. As the lady left the service station, she saw the men following her out of the station at the same time. Almost immediately, she started to feel dizzy and could not catch her breath. She tried to open the window and realized that the odor was on her hand — the same hand with which she had accepted the card from the man at the gas station. She then noticed the men were behind her and she felt she needed to do something at that moment. She drove into the first driveway and began to honk her horn repeatedly to ask for help. The men drove away but the woman still felt bad for several minutes until she could finally catch her breath. Apparently, there was a substance on the card that would have seriously injured her.
This drug is called 'burundanga' and it is used by people who wish to incapacitate a victim in order to steal from or take advantage of them. This drug is four times more dangerous than the date rape drug and is transferable on simple cards. So take heed and make sure you don't accept cards at any given time alone or from someone on the streets. This applies to those making house calls and slipping their cards when they offer their services." Another email was about a woman who was approached by a man and offered his business card at one of the main shopping centre's parking lot. Initially, she thought the man was offering her car wash services, so she told him that she didn't need the service, but he continued walking towards her. While the man was still a few meters away from her, he asked to her to take his card and when she asked what for, he reiterated, "just take the card." Luckily, she had also read the email warning about the drugs earlier, so she told him she knew what the card was and threatened to call security. The man sped off immediately. Another woman had a similar experience at another market's car park. When she was about to start the engine, a man suddenly appeared and offered her a business card. She had also read the email, so she refused but he insisted. Terrified, she quickly started the engine and sped off. Luckily, she locked the doors immediately after she got in the car. |  Norman |
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