"Jews Are Poisoning Dogs With Mushroom Spores" Is an Actual Rumor Circulating in Brooklyn Right Now
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That said, I was surprised but not stunned last night when she hit me with this doozie: Brooklyn Jews are peppering the sidewalks with mushroom spores. The reason: to poison the dogs in the neighborhood.
You might be thinking, "Ahhh -- the ancient, Hebrew mushroom-spores-on-the-sidewal
The following is what my neighbor -- whom we'll call Karen -- said to me as I walked my dog home from the park last night (note: after knowing each other for four months -- and speaking multiple times per day -- she still calls me Steve or Chris or Kevin. My name is not Steve or Chris or Kevin):
"Yo Steve! Yo Steve! You're gonna want to wash that dog's feet when you get upstairs -- the Jews down the street are putting poison mushroom spores on the sidewalk to kill dogs. My friend Yvette's dog just had a urinary tract infection -- thinks it's the mushrooms . . . yep."
Admittedly, my first thought was, "Well, I'm gonna have to wash my dog's feet." Then I thought, "Wait -- why the fuck would Jews use mushroom spores to kill dogs?"
So I asked to speak with Yvette, who confirmed that she'd heard the rumor from "lots of folks" and is convinced the poisonous spores are what caused her dog's UTI.
About a block from my apartment is a predominantly Orthodox neighborhood -- the supposed scene of the alleged sporing of Yvette's dog. So I asked some of the Orthodox men hanging out on the sidewalk if they were poisoning dogs with mushroom spores. To my surprise, they didn't look at me like I was batshit crazy.
"No, no, no -- the ladies over there have been saying for months that we are doing this," one of the men said. "Why on earth would we poison dogs with mushrooms? Where would we even get these mushrooms? Why would they not be making people sick? It's these ladies -- they keeping telling people [that Jews are poisoning dogs with mushroom spores] and they are actually believing it."
His story seemed to check out -- Jews waging biological warfare on the roughly six dogs that live in my neighborhood makes precisely zero sense.
As for the source of the rumor, Karen says: "It ain't a rumor -- this is real. Why don't you write one of your articles about it.?"
Done and done.
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