It was debunked on BreakTheChain.org on December 10, 2002.
Now it gets mangled here.
😏Meme: READ this, it's sad
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah, telling me it's sad is really gonna give me incentive to read it. *Rolling eyes* Well, I pretty much have to in order to smash it and work on character interactions for the story I'll be putting these characters in.
👧Meghan Shannings's chain: Hi, my name is Meghan Shannings. I am 13 and in the 7th grade.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Considering you started this chain which reached BreakTheChain back on December 10, 2002, you're a lot older than 13 by now and should be out of school.
👧Meghan: There is this one kid who doesn't have any friends.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Another day, another sad story.
👧Meghan: Put it this way: he is a geek and a total loser.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, so you know he has no friends, and you think he deserves this because in your mind, he's a geek and a total loser? You know what, Megs, I don't care how old you were back then, you are making an abysmally bad impression on me.
👧Meghan: All the other kids in my grade make fun of him and push him around.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: What is this, a whole generation of conscienceless selfish brats? Everybody in your class except Kevin was all made from the same bad mould? Yeah, right.
Want to know how unoriginal this subject of bullying/abuse/torture is?
👧Meghan: I have to admit it, I WAS kind of mean to Kevin Fisherman, the boy.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Kind of? Sounds like you were just as bad as everybody else. Still are if your present tense description of Kevin stands. So if you're somehow hoping to get off the hook with me by way of some kind of admission, forget it.
👧Meghan: One Friday on our way home from school, everyone started making fun of Kevin, you know, spitting on him, tripping him, and one kid even pushed him into the streets.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That goes beyond simply making fun, that's harassment, assault, extreme bullying. what's wrong with you stupid apes? You get your kicks ganging up on one kid and nearly having him killed? I officially detest you lot. Disgusting bullies.
👧Meghan: You would never believe who that was: Joey O'Connors, my boyfriend.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Why wouldn't I believe who it was? You said yourself you thought Kevin was a loser and you were mean to him, so it doesn't surprise me you'd be into a boy of the same mind. *Disgusted scowl*
👧Meghan: I laughed.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That doesn't surprise me either, Megs… *Withering glare*
👧Meghan: I laughed hysterically.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I thoroughly detest you. *Continues glaring darkly*
👧Meghan: I didn't think about what I was doing.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: of course you didn't. *Rolling eyes* A bully and an idiot all in one.
👧Meghan: I just laughed.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: and I just want you to know you are utterly despised, along with your loser boyfriend Joey.
👧Meghan: One second later, he was in the streets with his head face flat on the ground, he was bleeding everywhere, and his books fell in a pile of mudd.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Interesting way to spell 'mud' and you and your rotten violent boyfriend should've been hauled off to jail.
👧Meghan: Suddenly, I stopped laughing.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, the sight of blood suddenly jolted you to realize that 'hey, Kevin is actually made of flesh and blood like me, and this isn't so hilarious after all!'? Stupid!
👧Meghan: I felt really bad for this kid, and I know he was crying inside.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Probably crying on the outside too, unless by some mercy he actually lost consciousness. And you should feel bad. You should feel absolutely rotten about your part in all this. *Stern expression*
👧Meghan: Then it hit me,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, sure, then suddenly you grew a brain and a conscience, after all this time.
👧Meghan: Kevin was hurt.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: No kidding, Einstein! Sheesh!
👧Meghan: He was hurt really bad.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Well that's what happens when you body-slam somebody into the street, stupid, they get hurt bad, and they bleed! So has it finally sunk in with you that Kevin is a human being? Argh, you're an idiot!
👧Meghan: I didn't know what to do, I just stood there staring.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Go for help, ditz!
👧Meghan: Then a car came by, they didn't hit Kevin, but the car did stop.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Thank goodness for near misses. Your dumb boyfriend could've had this kid killed!
👧Meghan: "Oh my Gosh! Who the heck did this to my son?! Who?!"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So obviously this is one of Kevin's parents,, but where did they come from?
👧Meghan: No one said a thing,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Because they were all stupid cowardly bullies, caught in the act, and they knew they were headed for some well-deserved serious trouble!
👧Meghan: so Mrs. Fisherman, the driver, we think, replied,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Replied to what? If no one said anything…?
👧Meghan: "Fine! If no one wants to pipe up, I'll blame all of you!" And with that she called 911.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Somehow I don't believe she said all that before calling 911. She might've said it after making the call, and she would be right.
You lot and your totally awesome boyfriend could've caused her to kill her own son by accident - if she hadn't seen him lying there in the middle of the road in time. Are you proud of yourselves?
👧Meghan: Inside, I was sort of crying.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, that's it, is it? You were only sorta crying inside, you weren't really feeling badly enough to become frantic and feel guilty, you weren't actually breaking down and sobbing, well, this is one time you should've been, chick. Your self-analyzing and trying to convince me you really aren't such a shallow twink, isn't working!
👧Meghan: The next thing I knew, I was at home with my mom screaming at me.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: And you deserve it, girly!
👧Meghan: "Mom, it WASN'T me!"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Rolling eyes* She probably knows well enough what sort of brat you are to know that even if you didn't do the actual shove into the street you were part of the crowd that egged Joey on. all I can say is I hope all your fellow bully classmates who were assembled there are in over their heads in hot water as well.
👧Meghan: "Meghan Eleizabeth!! YOU might have not pushed him, but you LET other people push him. So, you ARE a part of the problem! Go to the hospital! Now! That is a command!"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Straight up, Mrs. Shannings!
👧Meghan: "But mom.........." I didn't get to finish. My mom pushed my out of the door, and I walked to the hospital wondering what Joey would say if he saw me caring for Kevin.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You know, it's too bad your mom had to push you out the door in the first place. If you had any conscience and guts you would've gone to the hospital without being told. though it would take considerable guts considering you were not exactly an innocent bystander stumbling on to the crime scene.
As for Joey, if you were worried about what he'd think, the feelings of revulsion and contempt you inspire defy description. You should've dropped that loser long before this. You're probably one of these stupid girls who thinks aggressive bullying ultramacho guys are really sexy and guys with any human feeling and vulnerability are trash.
👧Meghan: But I thought about it, I'd rather Kevin be okay then be Joey's boyfriend.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Too bad it took Kevin nearly getting killed and you getting in deep trouble with your mom before you decided to reach that conclusion. Idiot! You did laugh hysterically over Kevin's abuse right up until you saw he was actually bleeding and this close to getting run over!
👧Meghan: Really, Joey DID start this, so HE should be the one down here.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Where he should be is tossed in jail.
👧Meghan: I told myself that if Joey breaks up with me because I was checking on Kevin, the two of us were never ment to be.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Again, too bad it took all this to make you grow even a little personality.
👧Meghan: When I got to the hospital, I saw a nurse come out to Mrs. Fisherman. I could here her say this: "Don't you worry Jean, Kevin will probably be okay, but, it will cost $500 to pay for the operation."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bull! No nurse would talk like that. "probably be okay"? She would'n say that and then leave Jean to think "What if he probably isn't?"
Never mind the monetary stuff. That isn't her field of expertise. The nurse's duties are to take care of patients. The financial stuff gets worked out between the doctors, health insurance agencies etc.
So this is where your con really comes into play. You're going to make up some story about how the fisherman family can't afford the bill and that for every forward, this chain will blip money into some fund to pay for his care, blah blah blah… Not buying it.
👧Meghan: "No, no," Mrs. Fisherman sobbed, "you can't do this, we don't have enough money to pay,"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah right, I don't believe it.
👧Meghan: the nurse replied, "Well, Jean, we are offering to pay $2.00 for every signature you can get."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: What kind of slipshod operation is this?
I'll tell you something about hospitals and nurses, Megs; they don't depend on petitions, especially useless e-petition chain letters and nonexistent email/post trackers to generate money to bulk up any special fund, and they certainly don't deny anyone life-saving treatment because of lack of some chain being forwarded around.
👧Meghan: I offered "Um, Mrs. Fisherman, I-I could start an e-mail going and try to get 250 signatures."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So you think you can suddenly go from louse to hero by starting a chain letter - think again!
👧Meghan: So,do you agree that that was sad.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: No, I think it's rubbish, and you need to work on your punctuation a bit. if you're going to ask a question, put a question mark at the end, not a period.
👧Meghan: I do.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Well, you egged Joey on in the first place. You helped cause this whole thing. and now, you think it's sad. Oh, brother!
👧Meghan: Please help Kevin.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I just might, but not by passing on this chain letter. You sure you're going to want my idea of help? I don't exactly feel kind toward you or your friends.
👧Meghan: The only way he will live is if we get 250 names below.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bull crap.
👧Meghan: If you care, you will sign,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: If you cared, you wouldn't have egged Joey on to begin with. So don't get all lofty with me on the subject of caring, girly.
👧Meghan: so please sign.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I don't need to, since my name is all over this smash.
👧Meghan: You count.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: But you and your flunky classmate bully pals didn't think Kevin counted until he lay bleeding in the street.
👧Meghan: Please copy this list to a new e-mail and add your name and send it to as many people you know.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Nothing doing.
👧Meghan: Thanks for your help.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Don't thank me yet, Megs.
👧Meghan: It will make it so much easier if you don't send this back to the person who sent it to you,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Right, you're not starting a friendship spam racket. It's still spam, though.
👧Meghan: signing this sheet is just enough to show that you care.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I already told you not to use the word 'care' with me, and this isn't a sheet, it's online.
👧Meghan: Please send this on to everyone you know, it will make a big difference.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I told you, no. I told you why. It isn't possible to dumb the explanation down to less than one syllable per word. The only difference spamming this email might make is an increase in the annoyance factor for some recipients, and unnecessary upset by way of hoaxing others who fall for it.
😏Meme: 1.Meghan Shannings
2.Jean Fisherman(Kevin's mom)
3.Mark Fisherman(Kevin's dad)
4.Erin Fisherman(Kevi's Sis)
5.Tara Sampson(Meghan's bff)
6.Michelle Oddors(Meghan and Tara's bf)
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Hah, conspicuously absent is Joey O'Connors.
So is mine, but for an entirely different reason.
Over - and - out!
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