Morning Mirror 64 16th September 2003

REFUELING APOLOGY

Just a note on the "REFUELING SAFETY" piece in MM 63. The "Shell" incidents quoted were exposed as a hoax some time ago.

The only proven thing mobile phones have been guilty of in petrol stations is interfering with the Radio Frequency signals used to communicated between controller and pumps.

Mobile phone petrol station warning is an "urban myth" Claims that mobile phones have caused fires at petrol stations are an urban myth, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) said today.

AMTA CEO Graham Chalker said the myth originates from a hoax email 'warning', which often falsely claims to be from Shell Chemicals and includes a number of completely fictitious incidents.

"Mobile phones do not cause petrol stations to blow up. In fact there is no evidence whatsoever that a mobile phone has ever caused an explosion at a petrol station anywhere in the world," Mr Chalker said.

Shell UK said in a letter to the mobile phone industry last year that "the email is from a non-Shell source and that the originating email was an Internet hoax. This would indicate that the three cases being referred to are completely fictitious... Shell has no knowledge of any specific incident of ignition that occurred as a result of using a mobile phone on forecourts". 

CONGRATULATIONS

PLEASE WOULD YOU ANNOUNCE THAT I AM A PROUD GREAT AUNTY TO JENNA-RACHEL ROBERTS. SHE WAS BORN ON MON 08TH SEP 2003 TO COLLEEN ROBERTS (MY NEICE) AND DREW ROBERTS OF BURNSIDE BULAWAYO. THANKS

JEN MOORE

Sheila Stakesby Lewis and Don Heath have recently become engaged.  Both families are delighted.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YVONNE VERA'S MOTHER ERICA MGADZAWETA GWETAI ON ATTAINING HER BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE 

CONDOLENCES

• PETER LATILLA CAMPBELL SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO CHRIS, SIMON AND FAMILIES

• DOUG PETTICAN DEVOTED HUSBAND TO VAL AND FATHER TO BUTCH AND BUSTER

• HENRY MABWE LOYAL EMPLOYEE OF BULAWAYO THEATRE CLUB FOR SO MANY YEARS.

• DUSKO DJUKNIC IN YUGOSLAVIA

• KENNETH HOLMES

• SARAH FREDERICKS, WE MOURN THE LOSS OF A GREAT ARTIST IN BULAWAYO

• DAVID RUSSEL FOX SINCERE SYMPATHY TO MAGGIE

• SARAH FREDERICKS DEARLY LOVED DAUGHTER OF BOBBY AND HABIBA

• RUTLEDGE, John:  dear friend for 31 years, ex Kwe Kwe farmer.  We had wonderful times together.  Sympathy to Charme, Ian, Karen and all the family from Alan and Julia, Peta and Debbie

• Mrs Norah Cunningham died peacefully in hospital on Saturday 13th September.  Her funeral will take place at St Johns Cathedral on Thursday 18th September at 11.30 a.m.  Friends will be welcome afterwards at 4 Bentley Place, 32 Clark Road, Suburbs, Bulawayo.

TIDBITS

There are only two types of people in the world,” Richard Nixon once recorded for posterity: “Those who have lost data and those who will.”