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10-22-2009, 01:30 AM
As if you didn't have enough to be afraid of already, folks are texting, Twittering, and emailing about a so-called "gang initiation week" beginning today, October 21, during which 140 women will supposedly be targeted for cold-blooded murder by prospective gang members.
Police in Chicago, Illinois and Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the rumor-mongering verges on out-of-control, have rightly branded the warnings "hoaxes" and "urban myths." Similar messages circulated around this time last year (http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/10/31/police-halloween-gang-initiation-warnings-are-false.htm) (and other years previously, going back more than a decade), but no such bloodbath occurred.
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Police in Chicago, Illinois and Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the rumor-mongering verges on out-of-control, have rightly branded the warnings "hoaxes" and "urban myths." Similar messages circulated around this time last year (http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/10/31/police-halloween-gang-initiation-warnings-are-false.htm) (and other years previously, going back more than a decade), but no such bloodbath occurred.
Read more...'Gang Initiation Week' Is an Urban Legend (http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2009/10/21/gang-initiation-week-dismissed-as-urban-legend.htm) originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends (http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://urbanlegends.about.com/) on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 15:22:57.
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