B.C. The initial reaction of Cpl. Michael Robineau of the Ottawa RCMP was to fax it on to five local school boards. But on further investigation, Robineau discovered the information was false. Within hours he faxed a correction to the boards. However, in many cases the inaccuracies are discovered too late, or not at all.
Schools copy the notice and send it home with children.
It has been posted in hospitals and police departments, and translated into German and Spanish. It gives them sometimes a false perception that drugs are running rampant through the schools. Over the years, the warnings have been retyped and distorted. By the late 1980s, they claimed there were LSD tattoos of butterflies, clowns and red pyramids in addition to Blue Stars. In the 1990s, Bart Simpson was added to the list.