Exxon-Mobil Employees Given Fake Flu Shots

BAYTOWN, Texas - Fake flu shots were given out last week at a health fair at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Baytown complex and an investigation was under way, authorities said.

It doesn't appear that the fake shots were harmful, but steps were being taken to ensure workers' safety, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said in a statement Thursday.

Exxon Mobil offered blood tests and counseling to the up to 1,000 employees who took part in the health fair at the oil company's vast complex of refineries and chemical plants just east of Houston.

Counseling? So lemme get this straight, some scam artist swindles Exxon into paying for 1000 phony flu shots, and people will need counseling over this? What sort of counseling are we taking about here...making them watch repeated episodes of the old 1950's show Racket-Squad so that they may better determine bunko schemes?

And how'd they find out these shots were bogus to begin with? What, did someone have the injection then come down with the flu that very day, and everybody went, "uh-oh"?

Is telling a full story THAT hard to do? Or were all of the first-stringers camping out awaiting the results of the special prosecutor, so they hadda call in the interns?

And, just where WERE Rove and Libby when these phony vaccines were being administered?