Claim: Zero Population Growth terrorists are boobytrapping men's toilers with razors.
FALSE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2000]
from: SeigerB@fbihq.wash.dc.fed.gov.usa
to: SAIC-All Field Offices
subject: Important Operational Warning Notice
29 September 2000
From: Bertrand Seiger, Special Agent in Charge
Domestic Terrorism Division
Headquarters Field Office
Washington D.C.
This message is classified at Security Level 3B
File Copy Only To Be Maintained. No Duplication Permitted
Operational Immediate:
Pass this information along immediately to all field agents, office staff, and support personel, special attention to notification of male staff members.
It has now been verified that a new radical splinter group has broken from the main group of the Zero Population Movement. This new group, calling itself simply "No More!" has started to conduct a campaign of domestic terrorism, aimed at reducing the human population of this planet.
All staff are hereby advised to use extreme caution when using any public or semi-public restroom facilities, especially male staff members.
A confirmed 172 cases of maiming have occurred, with 13 resulting in the death of the victim. Many more cases are pending confirmation.
The "No More" group has designed an insidious device that they have been placing in the toilets in public restrooms across the nation. 6 have been found in limited access buildings.
The devices consist of a straight razor, a springload mechanism, and a pressure senser. The devices are cleverly hidden underneath the rim of the toilet bowl, and are not visible except by close inspection from inside the space of the bowl.
When a subject weighing over
This results in extreme trauma to, or complete severing from the body of the victims testicles.
In 102 cases, this has also resulted in the loss or damage of between 6 and 54% of the victims penis.
3 female victims have also suffered minor lacerations. One to the buttocks, and two to the back of the thighs.
Plans are being formulated to share this information with state and local law enforcement agencies as soon as it is feasable, without chancing widespread panic amongst the civilian population.
Information gathered by the Detroit Field Office also indicates that plans are in the works to install these devices in private residences. Members of "No More" plan to install the devices while in the guise of service providers, such as plumblers. There is no evidence yet to indicate that this practice has yet started.
Inform all staff soonest. Staff on their days off should be contacted at home. Every effort should be made to also contact staff on vacation, medical or disability leave, or any other leave of absence.
I cannot stress strongly enough the danger that this poses.
message ends
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Origins: This bit of silliness began making the online rounds at the end of September 2000 and is another example of hoaxsters' preying upon deep-rooted fears of
castration.
Once again, our toilets are supposedly turning against us: 1999's deadly lurking
Despite the dire-sounding, badly-spelled
Barbara "all cisterns are go!" Mikkelson
Last updated: 22 January 2015