Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 11:25:33 -0700
From: Steve Simmonds <simmonds@qualcomm.com>
Subject: tattoo legend hit Qualcomm Inc in San Diego today

For Dave Gross:

Two emails pasted here, FYI. We have an internal mailing list for parents interested in daycare, and someone posted the legend. A few minutes later, an alert reader posted the pointer to your web page. That's an excellent web page, and I thought I'd followup by letting you know that the tattoo legend made it this far, in the form described below, and that your web page should help it dead-end here.

--Steve Simmonds

Here's the first mail...

>X-Sender: skohrume@frobozz.qualcomm.com
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:00:30 -0800
>To: daycare
>From: skohrumel (Stephen A. Kohrumel, Mgr. Omni Network Service Center)
>Subject: Warning from the net on tatoos for kids
>
>This is a warning from the net forwarded to me by a friend, and submitted
>for your consideration:
>
>-----------------------
>>X400-Originator: Mike.J.Holguin@den.mmc.com
>>X400-Recipients: non-disclosure;
>>Date: 30 May 1996 15:47:43 -0700
>>From: "Holguin, Mike J" 
>>Return-Receipt-To: Mike.J.Holguin@den.mmc.com
>>Subject: FW: FWD>Fwd- Warning to Parents
>>
>>________________________________________________________
>>From: Elliot, James D on Tue, May 28, 1996 11:42 AM
>>Subject: FW: FWD>Fwd- Warning to Parents
>>To: Herbella, Gary; Holguin, Mike J; Hopkins, Ted R; Leslie, Kevin D;
>>Powell, Marilyn J; Thorp, Vernon L; Vogel, Robert A
>>
>>________________________________________________________
>>From: William Pollock on Wed, May 22, 1996 6:03 PM
>>Subject: FWD>Fwd- Warning to Parents
>>To: Betty Brown; John Dowd; Elliot, James D; John Gleason; BCs HFD;
>>Tiffany Kucifer; Tiffany Kucifer; Dennis Long; Lee Moore; Brenda
>>Pollock; Brian Rueger; Br y an Stemen; Joe Stevens; Joe Stevens; Eric
>>Wooster; Eric Wooster; Paul Young
>>
>>Mail*Link  SMTP               FWD>Fwd: Warning to Parents
>>
>>For ALL of you that have children... regardless of their ages.
>> ----------
>>Please give this your widest possible dissemination:
>>
>>Warning to Parents,
>>
>>A form of Tatoo called "Blue Star" is being sold to school children.
>>It is
>>a small piece of paper containing a blue star.  They are the size of a
>>pencil eraser, and each star is soaked with LSD.
>>
>>THE DRUG IS ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN SIMPLY BY HANDLING THE PAPER.
>>
>>There are also brightly colored paper tatoos resembling postage stamps
>>that have the pictures of the following:  Superman, Mickey Mouse, clowns,
>>Disney Characters, Bart Simpson, Butterflies, etc.
>>
>>EACH ONE IS WRAPPED IN FOIL.
>>
>>THIS IS A NEW WAY OF SELLING ACID BY APPEALING TO YOUNG CHILDREN!
>>
>>THEY ARE LACED WITH DRUGS!
>>
>>If your child gets any of the above, do not handle them.  These are
>>known to react quickly and some are laced with STRYCHNINE.
>>
>>Please feel free to reproduce this article and distribute it within your
>>community and work place.  Get the word out about this danger to our
>>children.
>>
>>FROM:  J.O'Donell-Danbury Hospital
>>Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Service
>>
>>Please copy and post at your work, give to friends, send a copy to your
>>local schools.  This is very serious, young lives have already been
>>taken.  This is growing faster than we can warn parents and professionals.
  

>To: daycare
>Subject: Re: Warning from the net on tatoos for kids
>From: p-pomes
>Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
>X-url: 
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:10:53 -0700
>Sender: p-pomes
>
>Oh Happy Day!!
>
>The Blue Star Tattoo urban legend has made it to Qualcomm.
>
>See http://www.nepenthes.com/Tattoo/
>
>/pbp