Posted: 5/1/2001 6:57:10 AM EDT
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Anyone heard this one, yet? Sounds like an adaptation from the movie. Subject: Be Careful When Getting Into Your Vehicle PLEASE READ AND PASS ON A friend stopped at a pay-at-the-pump gas station to get gas. Once she filled her gas tank after paying at the pump and started to leave the attendant inside came over the speaker. He told her that something happened with her card and that she needed to come inside to pay. The lady was confused because the transaction showed complete and approved. She told him that and was getting ready to leave but the attendant once again urged her to come in to pay or else. She proceeded to go inside and started arguing with the attendant about his threat. He told her to calm down and listen carefully: He told her that while she was pumping gas, a guy slipped into the back seat of her car on the other side and he had called the police. She immediately became scared and looked out there in time to see her car door open and the guy slip out. The report is that the new gang initiation thing is to bring back a woman's body part. One way they are doing this is crawling under girls/women's cars while they're pumping gas or at grocery stores in the night time. Then they are cutting the lady's ankles to disable them in order to kidnap them, kill and dismember them. The other way is slipping into unattended cars and kidnapping the women to kill and dismember them. Please pass this on to other women, young and old alike. Be extra careful going to and from your car at night. If at all possible, don't go alone! This is real!! Send this to many girls so your friend will not be the next one. Thanks, Barbara Baker, Secretary Directorate of Training U.S. Army Military Police School (573) 563-8043 |
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Very urban legend. Has all the classic indicators too. The simple minds that make up these things are so simple that they all read alike down to the ligit sounding point of contact. At least the phone number comes back to Fort Leonard Wood MO. Heck let me call it... the number is answered by a recording that starts off "if you're calling Babrara about an email... it's a hoax" |
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Many of these urban legends are described as a "Gang Initiation". In 8 years of dealing with street and prison gangs the only "initiation" i am aware of is being "jumped in" & geting tattooed. Of course the new guy is going to do any of the work that comes up, but he is already in. So robberies & murder are never the "initiation". |
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In 8 years of dealing with street and prison gangs the only "initiation" i am aware of is being "jumped in" & geting tattooed. A close friend and her husband were attacked in their home by gang members. The husband was fighting with one punk while two others attempted to rape my friend. The husband broke free and ran them off with a ball bat. The police later caught them at a hospital. One had a broken arm, one a broken collar bone and the third was fast runner. Cops told my friend they "suspected" gang initiation. Friend's husband still had a knife in his chest when the cops arrived. Tough dude. Eddie |