No idea if it's really true,but if it is.....well......just read it yourself.
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer my son is Kevin. On October 2, 2002, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and said, Mommy, it hurts. I looked, but couldn't find anything wrong with him at the time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point that I found a welt
on his left buttock. Upon investigation, it seemed as if there was a splinter under the welt. I made a doctor appointment for the next day to have it removed. In the meantime, he started vomiting and shaking. Then, his eyes rolled back in his head. We immediately went to the emergency room! My only son died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was
the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off in his skin. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from a heroine
overdose. The next day, the police removed the balls from the ball pit and found rotten food, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, the stench of urine, and several hypo-dermic needles. Please forward this! To all loving mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
Note:
Some children have also gotten lice from ball pits. The number of breaths we take does not measure life, but by the moments that take our breath away.
i think it would help people assess how reliable this is if you cited the source. is it from the internet? if so which site? newspaper? which one? what date? and so on. it may just be anti-McDonalds misinformation, or it may be for real - but it is impossible to form a judgement without knowing its origin.
EDIT: I realise that you are not claiming it is true, but i still think it would be helpful to know where this story comes from.
Originally posted by dfm65Yeh I know,but I got it in a message on pogo,had I known the source,I would have mentioned it,I'm well aware how important that is.The message also mentioned other companies(think it were all fast foodchains),but I forgot the names,I only remember cheeseE's or something similar......
i think it would help people assess how reliable this is if you cited the source. is it from the internet? if so which site? newspaper? which one? what date? and so on. it may just be anti-McDonalds misinformation, or it may be for real - but it is impossible to form a judgement without knowing its origin.
EDIT: I realise that you are not claiming it is true, but i still think it would be helpful to know where this story comes from.
It was not directed against McDonald's alone.
Originally posted by SirLoseALotfair enough. it just seemed odd to me though, that the police found 'several hypos' the next day, but no other infants had apparently encountered them, although it is to be expected that a large number of infants would use the facility.
Yeh I know,but I got it in a message on pogo,had I known the source,I would have mentioned it,I'm well aware how important that is.The message also mentioned other companies(think it were all fast foodchains),but I forgot the names,I only remember cheeseE's or something similar......
It was not directed against McDonald's alone.
Originally posted by SirLoseALothttp://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.htm
No idea if it's really true,but if it is.....well......just read it yourself.
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer my son is Kevin. On October 2, 2002, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and sai ...[text shortened]... e number of breaths we take does not measure life, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Originally posted by SirLoseALotThe symptoms are not that of an heroin overdose.
No idea if it's really true,but if it is.....well......just read it yourself.
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer my son is Kevin. On October 2, 2002, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and sai ...[text shortened]... e number of breaths we take does not measure life, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Sounds like rabid pro-life, vegetarian propaganda to me...
hypodermic-needel urban-legends have been about since even before the internet. i dought that this story is true.
i can remenber when i was six i would actualy check to see what in fact was at the bottom of the bubble pits, and i never found anything disterbing.
on the other hand, i certanly belive that you could get lice et al from the bubble pits.
Originally posted by fearlessleaderI refer the honourable gentleman to the answer i gave some moments ago.
hypodermic-needel urban-legends have been about since even before the internet. i dought that this story is true.
i can remenber when i was six i would actualy check to see what in fact was at the bottom of the bubble pits, and i never found anything disterbing.
on the other hand, i certanly belive that you could get lice et al from the bubble pits.
LOL....read the first post and then went to snopes. Then noticed that someone else has already posted the link.
There's a million of these stories that go 'round and 'round on the net. My favorite is the one of the missing little boy from Michigan. About 7 years ago a mother was looking for her son. So, she e-mailed her neighbor down the street to see if he was there playing. The neighbor forwarded to other neighbors and they forwarded, etc. Of course, the little boy was just playing ball down the street and was found about 20 minutes later, but the e-mails of the mother desperately looking for her son (with embelishment) still circulate through e-mail inboxes with heart-felt prayers.
and if you forward this to 10,000 people within five minutes the little boy will be found, you'll recieve $5,000 from Bill Gates, cure all diseases, and get a free Big Mac from McDonald's!
Originally posted by SirLoseALotA heroin addict would never leave any heroin behind.
No idea if it's really true,but if it is.....well......just read it yourself.
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer my son is Kevin. On October 2, 2002, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and sai ...[text shortened]... e number of breaths we take does not measure life, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Originally posted by SirLoseALot"The next day, the police removed the balls from the ball pit and found rotten food, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, the stench of urine, and several hypo-dermic needles."
No idea if it's really true,but if it is.....well......just read it yourself.
Hi, My name is Lauren Archer my son is Kevin. On October 2, 2002, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and sai ...[text shortened]... e number of breaths we take does not measure life, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Hmmm, let's see here, The McDonalds corporation, along with the Health Board inspectors, along with the parents of how many other children, and untold numbers of diners nearby did not notice the stench of diapers, feces, and urine???!!! And over how many days? And would you have me believe that your average homeless heroin addict would arise on a set schedule prior to opening in order to avoid being discovered? And that same addict would have access to the play area after hours as well????
It's another Urban Legend designed to shock and frightened the unsuspecting. It's full of more BS than a rodeo stockyard...
Originally posted by Paul DiracActually, in it's early production, it did contain extracts of cocaine and was addicting!!
Reminds me... When I was a kid some other kids would say that the 'Coca-Cola' name derived from cocaine, and that early production of the drink actually had cocaine in it, in order to hook customers on the stuff.