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...being exposed as hoaxes. By week's end more than a dozen people had been arrested for making false reports. Among & them were a Colorado woman and South Carolina man who were captured on video by store security cameras putting objects in cans; others were admitting they lied. The Pepsi scare fizzled as fast as an open can of cola on a hot picnic table...
...explain the rash of faked complaints and scams in the Pepsi scare? Such bogus reports often break out after an initial believable case is given wide publicity. Sometimes it's a simple craving for attention or a prank. A 21-year-old man arrested last week in Branson, Missouri, admitted that he'd lied about finding a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can "to see what the police department would do." A 62-year-old California woman confessed to police that she fabricated a similar story as a joke on her daughter...
...Each nationally publicized incident generates on average 30 more seriously disruptive crimes," declares Dietz, who would like to see news organizations limit their coverage of tampering. He points out that the initial Pepsi report occurred while Washington was saturated with news accounts of the June 8 sentencing of Joseph Meling, who was convicted of putting cyanide in cold capsules in an attempt to kill his wife; she survived but two others died...
With the case fresh in mind, police and the public might have jumped too quickly to the conclusion that the hypodermic found in the Tripletts' Pepsi can was the result of tampering. Late last week investigators were looking into the possibility that someone had innocently disposed of an insulin syringe by dropping it into the empty...
After a man in Tacoma, Washington, said he found a syringe in a can of Diet Pepsi, more than 50 similar tampering incidents were reported around the country. Noting that the reports involved cans filled at different times in different plants, company officials said it was "almost incomprehensible" that so many could have been tampered with. By week's end 13 people had been arrested on charges of making false claims, at least three others had admitted that their stories were invented -- and authorities remained unconvinced that any of the reports were authentic...