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On 1 October 2015, Facebook user Melissa Butz-Uhl Dingle published the photograph below: Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2015] Appended was the following statement: Butz-Uhl Dingle later elaborated on her initial account as highlighted below: Butz-Uhl Dingle's tale closely resembled a classic urban legend about a shunned serviceman, iterations of which have remained intermittently popular since Vietnam. In 2014 and 2015, the trope appeared repeatedly in a constellation of outrages on social media and spread beyond the world of servicemen. Amid debate about the use of police force, rumors began to pop up alleging police officers were refused service or disrespected by employees of various companies (although many such claims proved to be exaggerated or entirely fabricated). According to Dingle's Facebook page, he was at boot camp as of 28 June 2015. An active GoFundMe page created by Butz-Uhl Dingle indicated he graduated on 28 August 2015; it remained active and listed a new graduation date of 12 November 2015. Butz-Uhl Dingle did not provide a date, location, or other information about the spitting incident in her Facebook post. We've contacted Butz-Uhl Dingle in an attempt to obtain more details about the claim but have received no answers to date.
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