 The strawberry meth hoax
Thursday, 28 June 2007
A few days ago I got one of those “this is not a joke, warn the kids” chainmails from someone who should have known better than to just blindly and carelessly forward this type of rubbish:
Please read and digest. This could be one of our children, grandchildren or friends. New form of methamphetamine (Strawberry meth or Strawberry quick). There is a very scary thing going on in the schools right now that all need to be aware of. There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry poprocks. It smells like strawberry also and it is being handed out to kids in school yards. I’m sure it will make its way around the country if it hasn’t already. Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the E.R. in dire condition. Please instruct your children to not accept candy that looks like this even from a friend and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc. Please pass this around it could save some family a lot of heartache!
A simple check at the Snopes Urban Legends website would have saved her the embarassment of being involved in a hoax which has been circulating the globe over the last couple of months:
“In all our looking about, we didn’t run across so much as one news story about children who had ingested the substance because they mistook it for candy, whether they were subsequently treated at a hospital or not. Likewise, we have consistently failed to find anything that would support the claim that Strawberry Quick is being handed out in schoolyards.”
Here’s a tip: gently drag the image on the right to your bookmarks menu. That way, you won’t have to remember the website name, the next time you get tempted to forward this type of junk to a bunch of others.
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Look at the mythbusting at jointogether.com. Strawberry meth is just not there. Meth is but not strawberry meth.
So, it is scam! Then, tell me why, when I came to Snopes to check it out I was told that THIS WAS FOR REAL! Can you please get your facts straight!
Beryl, my facts are straight. Did you read all of the second quote from my post, above? Did you read the original article?
If you click on the "simple check" link above, you'll see the whole article. While the status says "partly true", the important bit is the last paragraph, which you should read again.
Another website is reporting this as true...
www.hoax-slayer.com/strawberry-quick-meth.shtml
It's true. At schools accross the country, school kids've been warned. Take caution.