Business traveler goes to a bar after a long day at work, and while sitting there, meets a fairly attractive young woman and they hit it off.

Next thing he knows, he wakes up in a strange hotel room, he's sitting in a tub full of ice. Written in lipstick on the mirror is a note: "call 911, or you will die".

He calls 911 on the phone he sees sitting on a small table, next to the tub. He tells the 911 operator his story; she already knows where he's going with this and in fact has already called for paramedics to race to his hotel room.

She tells him to very carefully reach around and feel if there is a small tube protruding from his lower back. He does and tells her he can feel the small tube.

The operator tells him to remain calm, stay in the tub and not to move, the paramedics are on their way. Apparently this is another crime of organ harvesting....this time, havesting of the kidneys. Because of the demand for organ transplants and the shortage of organs, there's now a flourishing black market in organ harvesting.

Apparently, this traveler is now on life support awaiting his own kidney transplant. Lucky for him though, the black market is thriving. He probably won't have to wait too long for another traveler to meet a nice looking young woman in a bar so he can have his kidneys.

This story was told again, in a similar fashion, but instead of a tube protruding from the lower back, the 911 operator asks the 'victim' to get out of the tub, look himself over and tell her if there's anything differnt about his body. Everything checks out okay in the front, but he notices two 9" slits at the lower back!

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As told by Urban Legend Member 46, 07/13/00...

One summer day in Southampton, New York, a woman pulled into a gas station. As the attendant pumped gas, the woman told the attendant she was in a hurry to pick up her daughter who had just finished an art class in East Hampton.

A very well dressed man walked over to her car, and started talking to her. He explained that his rental car had died, and he needed a ride to East Hampton for an appointment. She said that she would be happy to give him a ride. He put his briefcase in the backseat and said he was going to the men's room quickly.

The woman looked at her watch, and suddenly panicked. She drove off quickly, having forgotten that the man was coming back to the car for a ride.

She thought nothing of him again until she and her daughter pulled into the driveway. She saw his briefcase and realized she had forgotten him! She opened the briefcase looking for some form of identifcation so she could notify him about his belongings.

Inside she found nothing but a knife and a roll of duct tape!

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As told by Urban Legend Member 78, 06/18/99...

A young woman was leaving a local shopping mall only to find that she had a flat tire. A well-dressed young man carrying a briefcase came up to her and asked if she needed help changing her tire. She told him she would call AAA but when she did she was told it would be over an hour before a truck would be dispatched to her site. The gentleman urged her to let him fix her flat and she finally allowed him to do so.

When he was finished, he asked if she would give him a ride to the other side of the mall, as his car was parked there. Looking at her watch, she realized how late it was and apologized to the young man saying that she needed to get home as it was her daughter's birthday and her husband was at home with the two children awaiting her arrival. The man went on his way.

When she returned home, she told her husband what had happened at the mall and about the man who came to her aid. The husband went out to look at the tire and saw that the man had inadvertently left his briefcase in the trunk of the vehicle. The husband brought it into the livingroom and he and his wife opened it to see if they could find the man's name and phone number.

Upon opening the briefcase, they found only five items: a rag, chloroform, duct tape, a body bag and an icepick (which was probably used to cause the flat tire).

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