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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wal-Mart Text-Message Hoax Warns Of Gang Initiation

Have no fear, shoppers. Text messages warning of imminent violent gang initiations at local Wal-Marts are a hoax. You shouldn't have any problems lugging out your newly purchased 36 rolls of toilet paper. Late last week, residents in Arkansas and other states received texts that purported to be from the police, reading, "Do not go to Wal-Mart tonight. Something bad could happen. Credible threat to women. Killings possible." Local law enforcement in several areas said they didn't know the origin of the warning and that investigations turned up no credible threats.

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2 comments:

Chriso12385 said...

here we go again do people have nothing else better to do than to cause people to worry. I think with our current president selling our country we would have enough to worry about.

Anonymous said...

Chriso1285;

I would think that a person stupid enough to believe that they are suddenly receiving text message alerts from the police may need to be beaten by members of a gang.

Have people really lost that much common sense? It's 2009, these same types of internet hoaxes have been around for almost 15 years now and people still believe them, which is why they are still around. If people would start using a little more common sense and actually think about something before they believe it we would probably be a little better off.