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Echo from The Past
Sometimes, life imitates art. Sometimes, art imitates life. And most of the time, you can count on criminals to imitate other criminals.
Weekly Weird News
First, this story from the 1 July 2001 issue:
Hypnotic Hustle
Bogota, Colombia, police arrested three young women for robbery after a number of men woke up to find their wallets and cars missing. "They dissolved [drugs] in water and rubbed it into their breasts," a police spokeswoman said. They would then lure men to lick their breasts, which drugged them to make them compliant. "After licking the women's breasts, the men lost all willpower," police say. ...Actually, that happened well before they took a lick.
And now this, from the 7 December 2008 issue:
Keep Your Nose Clean
Police in Uganda are warning men to watch out for a gang of robbers using a "booby trap" in bars. Women are putting chloroform or other sedatives on their chests and apparently encouraging men to snuggle up to their cleavage. "We have found victims in an unconscious state," said Criminal Investigations Directorate spokesman Fred Enanga. "And the victim doesn't remember anything. He just remembers being in the act of romancing." The victim is typically completely stripped, Enanga said, so that "everything is taken from him." (AFP) ...It's getting pretty serious: one poor guy has been robbed by the gang five times in the last week.
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Posted by PoPSiCLe, Norway on December 8, 2008:
This one has also been used in the CSI: Las Vegas as a plot used by girls to get men into their rooms and rob them - of course, murder occur. :D
Posted by Lindsay, Australia on December 8, 2008:
Sounds like an urban legend to me - its not that easy to chloroform someone, it takes quite a lot and some time. Plus chloroform would evaporate fairly rapidly.
I doubt its true.
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I don't doubt the story at all. But I do doubt it's chloroform. Big difference. -rc
Posted by Marc Chicago burbs on December 9, 2008:
If the women were really using chloroform I would think that they would pass out from the fumes before the men since they are being exposed longer. All volatile anesthetics by definition must evaporate quickly, and the fumes always pollute the atmosphere in the area.
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...which is why I said I doubt it's really chloroform. -rc
Posted by Brian, Reno on December 13, 2008:
Being a guy, I can see falling for the booby trap 5 times.
Posted by Miladin, Macedonia on December 13, 2008:
Eh... And what method will men use to rob women?? :)
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Same as always: their charm. Of course, just as some women don't have cleavage, many men have no charm.... -rc
Posted by Lisa, Trenton, Ont on December 14, 2008:
You hear of the reverse happening (men drugging women) and the victim gets raped instead of robbed, nothing new just something different being taken.
Posted by John, Denver on January 8, 2009:
http://www.scambusters.org/urban-legends/perfume-hoax.html
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That page describes an e-mail hoax that is very little like what these stories describe. I have little doubt that the hoax is indeed a hoax. But it would be foolish to think that proves anything regarding different situations. -rc