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Warning: New Game

nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
I am passing this along as I received it. Cannot verify, so cannot call BS on it. Seemed worth a look.

posted from Allstate Insurance

Heard anything about this?

Please keep all windows rolled up when stopped at traffic lights, as only cars with windows down are being targeted. Groups of teenagers have been caught, in alarming numbers, playing a new and dangerous game called Spunkball.

Spunkball consists of a group of teens in a car pulling up to a stoplight, and looking around for a car stopped near by with an open window. When one is spotted, the teens shout, "Spunkball", and throw a gasoline soaked rag that has been wrapped in aluminum foil through the open window.

On the outside of the foil attached a small firecracker, with the fuse lit. When the firecracker explodes, it shreds the foil, and the rag is ignited, causing a large flame that may catch the interior of
the car on fire.

Spunkball playing has already claimed two lives, caused uncountable injuries due to burns, and caused thousands of dollars in damage to automobiles. The best defense, say authorities, is to keep all windows rolled up when stopped at traffic lights, as only cars with windows down are being targeted.

If you are at a red light and hear a shout of "Spunkball", and notice something come flying in your window, the best thing to do is to have all passengers immediately exit the vehicle. DO NOT try to retrieve the object, as it will ignite once the firecracker
explodes.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU CARE ABOUT.

Bea Maggio, FCLS
Allstate Insurance Co




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Comments

  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looked at all the regular de-bunk sites and they are unanimous, it's another urban legend.

    Clouder..
  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375
    edited November -1
    This story is in an urban legend book I got several years ago. In the story, teenagers are playing spunkball and throw one in the window of a car with a young couple inside. The car explodes into flames as the horrified teenagers look on. Kinda like flashing your headlights at the oncoming car with no lights on at night...
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This one sounds fishy to me. If you took a gasoline soaked rag and wrapped it in foil, and tied a firecracker to it, when you lit the fuse, the damn thing would catch on fire. Plus the vandals would get gasoline all over their hands and clothes, it doesn't add up. Anyway, these punks today, it would be just like them to do something nasty like this, we had good clean fun in the '60s, squirting innocent bystanders with fire extinguishers full of good clean water.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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