Truth is stranger than fiction, and in Egypt it’s even stranger than crazy Japanese horror-fiction. The Egyptian Health and Interior ministries have apparently announced that text messages can’t kill people. No, not even those scummy impossible-to-unsubscribe joke delivery services.
Rumors recently ran rampant regarding a text message which murders anyone who receives it. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that symptoms of the fatal SMS text message include a + prefix, like every message ever, ending with 111, like 0.1% of all messages ever, and vomiting blood, headaches, brain haemorrhages and strokes, unlike any SMS in the history of the world, technology, or basic common sense.
Dial-a-phone can exclusively report that the message also displays signs of “Being the sort of retarded rumour that would barely be forwarded on twitter” and “Not understanding what a mobile phone actually is.” If nothing else, a mobile phone ability to electronically enable remote-voodoo-death would make your “amount now due” notices considerably more forceful.
Unfortunately we haven’t been able to find independent verifications of this case online, everything tracing back to the AFP story. This could be because of the Arabic language of the original sites, or the way everyone involved in this case would make a retarded Luddite look like a systems administrator.
Three workers are apparently being interrogated for starting the rumors, which just shows how things are different abroad – here we’d buy them a few pints for such an awesome idiot-engaging prank.
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