Just saw a news article from texas that says if you see fruit at a gas station, you need to leave immediately.
They say this is because drug dealers are putting fruit at gas stations to identify their customers. If you pick up a piece of fruit sitting on a gas pump, it means you want drugs.
The article warns that innocent bystanders may accidentally pick up the fruit and be falsely identified as a drugs customer.
So stupid.
I did a little digging and found the original article that the rest of these articles are copying, and in the original, the author cites an instagram video that explains how the fruit-drug thing works.
Except the video is by a comedian (from bakersfield). His fans seem to get that it's a joke, but people who didn't know him are taking it seriously.
If you're taking fruit off a gas pump to eat you're already too far gone for drugs to have any effect. Gas pumps are nasty!
Oh I love stories like these! Especially how similar they are.
The one here in South Africa (and I'm sure we inherited it from somewhere else) is that you should never take a free keyring when they're giving them away at a petrol station (what we call gas stations)
The gangsters will see you take the keyring, and follow you home and make a note of where you live. Then later they'll come back and rob your house!!!
It's never explained why the gangsters need to follow anyone from a petrol station in order to rob them. Couldn't they just rob random houses ? Or maybe they want the keyring back?
It's got to be some kind of link to older stories, of inviting evil things over your threshold or something like that.
@MLE_online I used to make a game of getting to / from the Greyhound station without being offered drugs. Got off at different subway stations, went around the block to avoid the smokers outside the bar, tried to dress more 'square'...
I still got offered drugs about 2 in 3 walks to the bus station.
@MLE_online hahahahhahahahahhahahaha
It’s like perfect catnip for local Nextdoor where they think well-to-do teenagers buy drugs from homeless camps. In a state with legalized weed.
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