Posted on 03/27/2008 10:16:09 PM PDT by umgud
On 3/27/08, the Delano Police Department Gang Unit received information that a California Criminal Street Gang is going to be holding gang initiations in the Cities of Delano and McFarland. Prospective members are to collide their vehicles into random vehicles from behind. As the driver of the victim vehicle exits, the prospective members will open fire. This information has not been substantiated nor do we know if it is credible. As always, the Delano Police Department is concerened with the safety of all Delano residents and therefore, we are strongly suggesting that everyone use extreme caution if they are involved in a rear end collision. If citizens are involved in a similar type vehicle collision they should drive directly to the Delano Police Department to report minor vehicle collisions until further notice or remain in the vehicle and dial 9-1-1. The Delano Police Department is located at 1022 12th Avenue. If you have any questions please contact Detective Corporal Nicholson at (661) 721-3365.
Can you post some of the links you found regarding police departments saying they got duped? I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be interested in that info.
Ya let me go find them.
I hear ya.
Been there on the other end of trying to post after a 24hr shift.
Thanks.
This one is just a PD saying they believe it is an urban legend.
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2632305/
pd’s disagree
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=bbfcecb9-c902-498e-9c90-e75feebb0d90
http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/NEWS01/803280321/1010
I cleared my earlier searches but I will try to find the ones where the PD’s retracted, etc
Ya, it is all viral Global, one PD gets it and they foward it to another PD and they say “well hell they must have checked it out” and so on and so on.
Thanks for taking the time to post those links. If you find any others and post them, please ping me again if you don’t mind. :^)
No prob. I was using the past24hours news search earlier, so if I find the others I will put them up here.
This is an updated version of an urban legend from about 15 years ago. Back then, the rumor was that gang initiates were driving around with their headlights off, and had to track down and kill the first person who blinked his lights at them.
Then, as now, it was a "gang initiation," but it was the Crips and/or Bloods rather than MS13. To folks who follow urban legends, this is a familiar pattern; an old legend adapts to new fears.
The old version, dubbed "Lights out," spread largely through police communication channels in 1993 or 94, before most folks had Internet access or cell phone text messages. My girlfriend at the time called me to warn me of the threat. Her sister, an ER nurse, had heard it from a cop who brought in an injured person. That was on a Friday night; by the time Sunday morning's paper came around, the AJC was describing it as a myth.
Snopes has the current rumor first sighted on March 26, and cites warnings from Talahassee, Buffalo, Wilmington and Fayeteville NC, Baltimore, unspecified areas of Northern California, and New Jersey, I think (a lot of the messages specify counties I can't immediately place). Compare and contrast with the old Lights Out myth.
I'm considering it an urban legend until and unless there are credible and verifiable reports that this has actually happened.
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