From: Anthony Bower [awbower@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 11:39 AM To: Charles Hymes Subject: texas story likely to be true Charles, I don't know for what reason I found myself at your web page, but browsing around I guess. The story that you included about the stolen kindeys, isn't at all true, but I do believe that it did happen. See I was stationed down at Fort Hood, Texas last year and a couple of friends and I went down to Austin to party on 6th street, which is the real happening place to be. Anyways we went to a couple of bars and then on our way out we ran across some black men who seemed to be asking questions to everyone if they had seem this certain female. My friend that I was with was black and as these black men approached us they threw out a drawing of a women. We stated that we hadn't seen her and my friend asked them why they were looking for her. They replyied with the same story from your web site, with a little twist and turns. They clamed that this man went to a club with his friend and the women asked this guy to go to a hotel party. This guys best friend had to go home and so the man went by himself. That's how they got the picture I supose. 10,000 dollars a pop is what they claimed the kindeys were worth and now the guy isn't on life support, but he has to have his system flushed twice a day so that he doesn't catch any bacteria or desiese. Anyways a couple of months went buy from that night and I had forgotten all about it, untill one weekend right befor I was getting out of the army. There was a black man that I ran into at applebees and started talking to him at the bar. Somehow we got on the subject of death and he told me the exact story I had heard down in Austin which is about 45 min away from Fort Hood and he claimed that the man this happened to was his nephew. He told me that this guys brother and his friends had an idea of what the lady looked like and, basically said that they wouldn't rest untill those mother fuckers were caught. So in all I can't say that I don't believe, because I have every reason to believe that this story is true from my experience with seeing some pissed off black men. Cpl. Anthony Bower Ohio National Guard Subject: Kidney Theft From: Adam Herman Date: 1996/12/06 Message-Id: <32A90763.62B2@communique.net> Cc: adam@Communique.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-Ascii Organization: Communique, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: adam@communique.net Newsgroups: misc.emerg-Services,alt.med.ems X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) The attached document appeared in my e-mail inbox. Do you guys thinks it's true or pure fabrication? Is there really a black market for body organs and is this story likely true or false? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Adam Herman 504/488-6498 adam@communique.net Fax: 504/486-6846 =============== This guy went out last Saturday night to a party. He was having a good time, had a couple of beers and some girl seemed to like him and invited him to go to another party. He quickly agreed and decided to go along with her. She took him to a party in some apartment and they continued to drink, and even got involved with some other drugs (unknown which). The next thing he knew, he woke up completely naked in a bathtub filled with ice. He was still feeling the effects of the drugs, but looked around to see he was alone. He looked down at his chest, which had "CALL 911 OR YOU WILL DIE" written on it in lipstick. He saw a phone was on a stand next to the tub, so he picked it up and dialed. He explained to the EMS operator what the situation was and that he didn't know where he was, what he took, or why he was really calling. She advised him to get out of the tub. He did, and she asked him to look himself over in the mirror. He did, and appeared normal, so she told him to check his back. He did, only to find two 9 inch slits on his lower back. She told him to get back in the tub immediately, and they sent a rescue team over. Apparently, after being examined, he found out more of what had happened. His kidneys were stolen. They are worth 10,000 dollars each on the black market. (I was unaware this even existed) Several guesses are in order: The second party was a sham, the people involved had to be at least medical students, and it was not just recreational drugs he was given. Regardless, he is currently in the hospital on life support, awaiting a spare kidney. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com