Missing Parents (EMAIL)
06 January 2005, 11:12 PM
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Missing Parents (EMAIL)
Anybody else had one of these emails about wanting to find a boys parents, says that the 2 years old boy is missing his parents from Khoa Lak anybody else had one of these?????
06 January 2005, 11:19 PM
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Nope, this one was real.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/hannes.asp
Hannes Bergstroem, a 2-year-old Swedish boy, was caught up in the tsunami that struck Thailand on 26 December 2004 and separated from his father. He was reportedly rescued and helicoptered to a hospital through the efforts of a Thai princess, where he was treated for scratchs and mosquito bites but was otherwise okay. As he was too young to adequately identify himself to rescuers (who didn't even know his nationality) or to provide sufficient information for them to locate his parents, a doctor at Phuket International Hospital in Thailand mailed out the boy's photo on the Internet with an appeal for help with the identification.
Fortunately, this incident had a happy ending: Hannes' uncle spotted the photo on 28 December 2004, and Hannes and his father, Marko Karkkainen, were reunited at the hospital the next day.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/hannes.asp
Hannes Bergstroem, a 2-year-old Swedish boy, was caught up in the tsunami that struck Thailand on 26 December 2004 and separated from his father. He was reportedly rescued and helicoptered to a hospital through the efforts of a Thai princess, where he was treated for scratchs and mosquito bites but was otherwise okay. As he was too young to adequately identify himself to rescuers (who didn't even know his nationality) or to provide sufficient information for them to locate his parents, a doctor at Phuket International Hospital in Thailand mailed out the boy's photo on the Internet with an appeal for help with the identification.
Fortunately, this incident had a happy ending: Hannes' uncle spotted the photo on 28 December 2004, and Hannes and his father, Marko Karkkainen, were reunited at the hospital the next day.
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07 January 2005, 10:33 PM
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We had a similar thing (e-mail) at work yesterday.
Putting aside emotions, you have to ask...
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Putting aside emotions, you have to ask...
- Why the boy was from Tsunami, when it is a wave and not a place?
- Why was the source - someone at "Thai Airlines" when the original e-mail appeared to be from Portugese Airlines?
- Why do they say (politely) to forward this on to everyone you know?
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11 January 2005, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by InvisibleMan
boys parents have been found & all is ok so no need for even more spam....
11 January 2005, 12:23 PM
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I got sent this one too - did anyone else notice/ have the ads for Budweiser and Dominoes (amongst others) in the same file? When I opened the pic of the boy and scrolled through the other pics there was a while pile of cr@p in there. A few questions:
- Why were they there?
- Who put them there?
- What could they gain from it?
- If they could gain something - did they make a suitable donation for the priviledge?
11 January 2005, 01:23 PM
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We get at least 30 a day into the office, and despite the parents being located the emails just keep coming. We have had to block these messages at the gateway, if only to stop staff members forwarding around themselves.
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