Win her over with chloroform....or this shit

**LocalCelebrity** · April 8th, 2009, 04:03 PM

This Incident has been confirmed. In Katy , TX
A man came over and offered his services as a painter to a female putting gas in her car and left his card. She said no , but accepted his card out of kindness and got in the car. The man then got into a car driven by another gentleman. As the lady left the service station, she saw the men following her out of the station at the same time. Almost immediately, she started to feel dizzy and could not catch her breath. She tried to open the window and realized that the odor was on her hand; the same hand which accepted the card from the gentleman at the gas station.
She then noticed the men were immediately behind her and she felt she needed to do something at that moment. She drove into the first driveway and began to honk her horn repeatedly to ask for help. The men drove away but the lady still felt pretty bad for several minutes after she could finally catch her breath. Apparently, there was a substance on the card that could have seriously injured her.
This drug is called 'BURUNDANGA ' and it is used by people who wish to incapacitate a victim in order to steal from or take advantage of them.

This drug is four times dangerous than the date rape drug and is tranfersable on simple cards.
So take heed and make sure you don ' t accept cards at any given time alone or from someone on the streets. This applies to those making house calls and slipping you a card when they offer their services.

Snopes.com

**El Supremo** · April 8th, 2009, 04:13 PM

Great... just one more thing for people to be pants-shittingly terrified about.

I'm not shooting the messenger here, LC. Just thinking out loud.

**LocalCelebrity** · April 8th, 2009, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by El Supremo

Great... just one more thing for people to be pants-shittingly terrified about.

I'm not shooting the messenger here, LC. Just thinking out loud.

Oh, I hear ya. Shit like this freaks my mother out. She sends me emails and calls all the time with new shit like this. Bless her heart

**TheMorningStar** · April 8th, 2009, 04:39 PM

While burundanga is a frightening drug, in all our searching for information on it we failed to come across news articles about its being used in the U.S. The regions in and around the country of Colombia appear to be its hunting grounds.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp

**Just my luck sucks** · April 8th, 2009, 04:42 PM

No doubt, will be just a matter of time.

**Castille** · April 8th, 2009, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by LocalCelebrity

This drug is four times dangerous than the date rape drug and is tranfersable on simple cards.
So take heed and make sure you don ' t accept cards at any given time alone or from someone on the streets. This applies to those making house calls and slipping you a card when they offer their services.

Snopes.com

Except for the part where... it's not. TheMorningStar was kind enough to provide the snopes link for this urban legend, lol.

**LocalCelebrity** · April 9th, 2009, 09:43 AM

Well damn, thats what I get for NOT doing my research properly. Sorry guys.

**El Supremo** · April 9th, 2009, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by LocalCelebrity

Well damn, thats what I get for NOT doing my research properly. Sorry guys.

As soon as I saw the link from Snopes, I knew I could relax a little. :)

**Peeperann** · April 9th, 2009, 10:07 AM

Whoa, ok I will never accept anything handed to me again by a stranger. That is freaking scary, good for her she had the presence of mind to pull into a driveway and blow the hell out of her horn.

We all know this could have ended in a much worse way. I will be telling all my kids about this one, especially my daughters.

**El Supremo** · April 9th, 2009, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by Peeperann

Whoa, ok I will never accept anything handed to me again by a stranger. That is freaking scary, good for her she had the presence of mind to pull into a driveway and blow the hell out of her horn.

We all know this could have ended in a much worse way. I will be telling all my kids about this one, especially my daughters.

Peep, I think you may have missed the punchline on this thread. The story that LC originally posted (no offense meant to you, LC) is an urban legend and has been confirmed as "False" by the good people at Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp

As far as this particular terror goes, you have nothing to worry about unless you decide move to Colombia.

**Lizard** · April 9th, 2009, 11:42 AM

Interesting drug. Can you imagine purposely ingesting a substance so you could have repetitive and boring hallucinations?

The hallucinations produced by scopolamine, in common with other potent anticholinergics, are especially real-seeming, repetitive, boring and unpleasant. An overdose of scopolamine is also physically exceedingly unpleasant and can be fatal, unlike the effect of other more commonly used hallucinogens. For these reasons, naturally occurring anticholinergics are rarely used for recreational purposes.
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In recent years the criminal use of scopolamine has become epidemic in Colombia. Approximately one in five emergency room admissions for poisoning in Bogotá have been attributed to scopolamine.
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In Colombia a plant admixture containing scopolamine called Burundanga has been used shamanically for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine

**Peeperann** · April 9th, 2009, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by El Supremo

Peep, I think you may have missed the punchline on this thread. The story that LC originally posted (no offense meant to you, LC) is an urban legend and has been confirmed as "False" by the good people at Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp

As far as this particular terror goes, you have nothing to worry about unless you decide move to Colombia.

Ah, see this is what I get for trying to read and post in between work calls!

**Lizard** · April 9th, 2009, 12:38 PM

I've been chuckling about my last post since I made it. The notion of boring hallucinations!

**Insomniac** · April 9th, 2009, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Lizard

Interesting drug. Can you imagine purposely ingesting a substance so you could have repetitive and boring hallucinations?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine

Sounds like my work week.