From: Geoff Wrigg [data1@initco.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 2:26 PM
To: Charles Hymes
Subject: Comment & Question

I just wanted to drop a quick line and say I appreciate your site.  As the
computer guy in my office, I hear a lot of the urban-legend-style rumors
(computer-related and otherwise) floating around and it's nice to have an
authoritative source to go for the purpose of shooting down the false ones.

Just recently in my home e-mail, I got a story of people going to movies
and finding needles contaminated with HIV, hepatitis, or some other dreaded
disease in the seats.  The people unknowingly sit on the needles, and by
the time they realize what's happened, they've been infected.  This story
has apparently been making the rounds among military personnel overseas,
prefaced with taglines like, "Do you really want to go home?"

It certainly sounds like a hoax to me, but I was wondering if you've heard
about this one.  I would appreciate any information you may have about
this.

If at all possible, please send any replies to my *home* e-mail address,
furnished below.  Thank you... 

Geoff Wrigg
gwrigg@mocc.com (Home e-mail)
data1@initco.net (Work e-mail)