"Possible Terra Warning" --- wtf?

[hippiechick]

Just got this email from my boss: bs or no? :shrug:

UPS Uniforms
Government Warning regarding purchase of UPS uniforms:

There has been a huge purchase, $32,000 worth, of United Parcel Service (UPS) uniforms on eBay over the last 30 days. This could represent a serious threat as bogus drivers (terrorists) can drop off anything to anyone with deadly consequences! If you have ANY questions when a UPS driver appears at your door they should be able to furnish VALID I.D.

Additionally, if someone in a UPS uniform comes to make a drop off or pick up, make absolutely sure they are driving a UPS truck. UPS doesn't make deliveries or pickups in anything, except a company vehicle. If you have a problem, call your local law enforcement agency right away!

TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! Tell everyone in your office, your family, your friends, etc. Make people aware so that we can prepare and/or avoid terrorist attacks on our people! Thank you for your time in reviewing this and PLEASE send to EVERYONE on your list, even if they are friend or foe. We should all be aware!

(name deleted)
Management Program Specialist
U.S.Department of Homeland Security
Bureau Customs and Border Protection
Washington, DC20229


:tinfoilhat:

[Fierce]

1. Like "trust me!" and "I'm soooo drunk!",

"TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!" is something I tend to put down as fake.

[Debau2005]

2. Try Snopes.com for info

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/upsuniforms.asp

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Isn't this warning about three weeks late?

:eyes:

[babylonsister]

4. False per snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/upsuniforms.asp

[hobbit709]

5. Snopes is your friend

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/upsuniforms.asp

[sakabatou]

6. Snopes is your friend

[Atman]

7. Yes, DHS is now issuing terra warning via mass e-mail lists

and asks us to forward the warnings to everyone on our mailing lists.

If that doesn't raise a red flag immediately...maybe the guy's name left of the mailing will do it.

If you're nervous, just don't accept any ticking packages from a nervous, sweating UPS man that shouts "Praise Allah!" as you're signing the delivery slip.

.

[Debau2005]

10. sweating UPS man that shouts "Praise Allah!"

:rofl: :spray:

[demnan]

8. When in doubt, check out Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/upsuniforms.asp

[bryant69]

9. This just in

Terrorists buying huge stockpiles of random crap to drive internet conspiricists nuts. There are reports of middle eastern men buying three tons of marshmellows in upstate new york, for purposes we do not know. And in Alabama, middle eastern men bought nearly 5,000 battery operated Jesuses. It's unclear how they plan to use the battery powered Jesuses, but we have to assume it is for some evil and nefarious purpose. It now appears that their plan is to buy large lots of everything so that everything you see makes you paranoid. They hope to reach this goal by 2017.

This could be real, what do I know. Just struck me funny.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[acmejack]

11. Three tons of Marshmallows?

Holy cow, that is a lot of volume!

[hippiechick]

12. 3 tons of marshmallows and 5,000 Jesuses ...

... sounds kinda kinky to me!!

:rofl:

[stellanoir]

13. Bryant

I've read and appreciated your posts for a while. This is the funniest yet.

LOL

[Mabus]

14. Shouldn't that be "Jesi"?

To make a plural of a word ending in "-us" shouldn't you change the end to "i"? Like the plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami and fungus is fungi?

:evilgrin:

[chaz4jazz]

15. As a wise NYC doorman once said

All a terrorist has to do get a UPS truck, uniform and a dolly. They park anywhere around NYC, walk through barriers, enter buildings unmolested. It doesn't surprise me that UPS is a possible avenue...