Do you know about snopes.com, the Internet's leading urban legend site? Apparently the FDNY didn't. An FDNY chief circulated an internal memo warning department members of a "huge purchase" of United Parcel Service uniforms on eBay--perhaps by terrorists planning to pose as delivery men who could "drop off anything to anyone with dangerous consequences."
Chief Lawrence Connors told The Smoking Gun that he issued the memo to FDNY personnel after receiving intelligence information from the U.S. Army's Regional Support Command. Connors added that he was told the Army alert was triggered by information from a "credible source." Perhaps that military source needs to be reevaluated, since the uniform story is a hoax, according to spokesmen for both UPS and eBay. Sigh. Click here for the memo.
