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Old 23 April 2013, 12:48 AM
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Comment: The story you have for the marathon amputee that reportedly he
lost his legs in Iraq is false information. I was under the assumption
that you were a reliable source until now. I am an employee for Costco and
apparently they are taking donations for him because he is an employee
!!!! Please check your facts !!!! He is an employee in the New Hampshire
wharhouse and YES he lost his legs at the MARATHON !!! You should be
ashamed of yourselves !!!
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Comment: I suspect (if this article from earlier THIS year) that the
snopes entry related to it needs some updating:

http://www.africanglobe.net/headline...n-dollar-case/
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Old 25 April 2013, 02:46 AM
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Comment: The information in this article:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp

is now inaccurate. See the following links for my sources:

http://www.africanglobe.net/headline...n-dollar-case/
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Old 06 May 2013, 06:35 PM
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Comment: http://www.snopes.com/computer/faceb...eatestgift.asp

Look again. Yes there IS a Facebook group of this name... perhaps there
was not in 2010, but there is now.
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Old 07 May 2013, 03:47 AM
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Comment: This story is actually true not false as claimed here on snopes.
It's even documented by TIME magazine.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...000445,00.html

http://www.bradenton.com/2011/09/25/...ter-shark.html

There are more articles by major news sources and interviews by the family
on the internet, confirming the story and the attack
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Comment: http://www.africanglobe.net/headline...n-dollar-case/

To SNOPES; Please update your article about "The Matrix" writer Sophia
Stewart, she did win a Billion Dollar Copyright Lawsuit. Thanks, R.Zarif

I found your article has not been updated on Sophia Stewart
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Old 13 May 2013, 12:34 AM
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Comment: In your story "Blood Hounded" about the child contracting HIV
through pineapple, you state that HIV can be contracted through saliva and
tears. This is not true. There may be a small amount of HIV present in
saliva but it's of no clinical significance. In addition, HIV cannot
survive in fluids like tears or sweat.
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Old 13 May 2013, 05:57 PM
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Comment: your site says that the rumor that visine/murine causes diarrhea
is false, but then goes on to list all of the horrible things that can
happen to a person if they are given visine drops in their food or drink.
If it is true that the effects are terrible, why does snopes list this
rumor as "false?"

Also, I have first hand knowledge of this being true. I have worked as a
bartender and waitress for a good deal of my adult life and I have seen it
happen. Many waiters/waitresses carried bottles with them in the aprons,
since waitressing was so frustrating and they would use it when they felt
insulted or annoyed. They thought it was hilarious.

What's more, it has happened to me personally. The only reason that I knew
that this sudden onset of projectile vomiting was from visine was because
the other employees thought it was so funny that they couldn't keep the
"secret" and the person responsible bragged about it. I have never done
it, but I have had it done to me a number of times and I have suspected
other times. One time recently I was at Red Robin and sent my food back
because it was wrong. Four hours later I was on the floor with projectile
vomiting and blood pressure issues. I was ready to go to the ER but
decided to give it a few more hours. The pain was excruciating. I am
going to find out if there is a test for this. Snopes needs to rethink
the "false" that they write about this 'rumor.'
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Comment: Concerning the article about Jane Fonda passing information about
Vietnam Veterans interned as Prisoners of War in the "Hanoi Hilton" being
reported by you as FALSE. I am not sure who you have spoken to about this.
Perhaps you only mean a few specific names from an email. If that is so,
then perhaps it is not true. However, according to actual Veterans of the
Vietnam war she had passed the names of every American who passed her a
message. I believe that the way you have this article currently setup
gives it an incorrect skew towards her being innocent of committing
treason during her time there. This is a slap in the face to anyone who
has ever served in the military. Please re-look into this, though I would
not use her own book as a reference. It may look as if you would prefer to
take her at her word as opposed to the Veterans she stabbed in the back.

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp
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