From: James_Ip@ontla.ola.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 12:41 PM
To: Charles Hymes
Subject: Recent hoax?

Hi there. I was forwarded this e-mail. I thought it was ridiculous, and
in an effort to find out if it was one of those urban legends, I came
across your website. It's been very informative.

I was wondering if you can tell me whether this message below is a
recent hoax. 

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I received this from a friend of mine that works for some attorneys in
San Francisco, 
this is real. This girl was really in a hurry one day so she just
stopped off at a Taco Bell 
and got a Chicken soft taco and ate it on the way home. Well that night
she noticed her 
jaw was kind of tight and swollen.  The next day it was a little worse
so she went to her 
doctor. he said she was just have an allergic reaction to something and
gave her some 
cream to rub on her jaw to help. After a couple of does the swelling had
just gotten 
worse and she could hardly move her jaw. She went back to her doctor to
see what was 
wrong.  Her doctor had no idea so he started to  run some test. They
scrubbed out the 
inside of her mouth to get tissue samples and they also took some saliva
samples. Well 
they found out what was wrong. Apparently her chicken soft taco had a
pregnant roach 
in it that she ate!!!! The eggs then some how got into her saliva glands
and she was 
incubating them in her mouth. They had to remove a couple a layers of
her inner mouth 
to get all the eggs out. If they 
hadn't figured out what was going on the eggs would have hatched inside
the lining of 
her mouth!!!!!! She's suing Taco Bell! Of course. 
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW