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March 19, 2009 at 8:28 pm #271767
tsgal
I got a text from a friend today, not to go to Wal Mart tonight. Said something about a gang initiation to shoot three woman tonight. Not sure which Wal Mart.
And they have confirmed it on TV. Has anyone else heard about this?
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March 19, 2009 at 9:09 pm #417905
taunya1978
this tale is as old as dirt. check out Snopes.com and do a search for it.
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March 19, 2009 at 9:13 pm #417906
jedda
Hmm. Thanks for the heads up, although one of our local walmarts is like that most days… DH says that I can only go to that one in broad daylight.
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March 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm #417907
rtebalt
Sounds like an urban legend/ rumor to me, but I STILL won’t go near a Walmart tonight. Better to be safe than sorry!
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March 19, 2009 at 9:27 pm #417908
rtebalt
This was released today on About.com (I also tried to copy & paste the article from Snopes.com, but it wouldn’t let me. The jist is, this rumor has been circulating since 2005. 🙂
Wednesday March 18, 2009
Police in several states worked overtime yesterday and today to quash rumors about supposed gang initiation killings planned at local Walmart stores. The rumors, which circulated all day Tuesday via email and text message in Valdosta, Georgia, to name one locale, were investigated by the city’s Gang Task Force and found to be “not credible,” Police Commander Brian Childress said.Broward and Palm Beach County officials issued similar statements today, labeling gang initiation rumors still circulating in south Florida “hoaxes and urban legends.”
one version of the rumor spreading via text message read as follows (verbatim):
fwd: police are asking all women not to go to any walmart tonight there is a gang iniation and three women will be shot this is not a joke pls foward
the times-journal of selma, alabama noted that gang initiation rumors erupted there as well, culminating in a panicky phone call from a subscriber tuesday night asking if it was true that hostages were being held inside the selma walmart store. no such assault occurred, the times-journal reported. -
March 19, 2009 at 11:39 pm #417923
mdowdy
Its a rumor. It went around here at Christmas last year as well as in the city my brother lives. No truth to it at all.
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March 20, 2009 at 2:00 am #417930
tsgal
Glad I ask, I knew that it couldn’t be true. In this part of the country these type of things just don’t happen. I’m not saying that it couldn’t, but it just doesn’t.
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March 22, 2009 at 6:21 pm #418095
mdowdy
@tsgal 112522 wrote:
Glad I ask, I knew that it couldn’t be true. In this part of the country these type of things just don’t happen. I’m not saying that it couldn’t, but it just doesn’t.
Don’t ever think it will not happen. In 2005 the city I lived in had a stabbing happen at the local walmart which turned out to be a gang initiation. Until then our chief of police was denying we even had gangs even though the people of the city was telling him he was nuts.
After this he couldn’t deny it. Our local newspaper ran an article this weekend on this being untrue according to police sources and the local police department working with other cities to investigate the possibility. We once thought it was a chance here but highly unlikely also.
Since the stabbing here, this is what I do personally to protect myself. I go out to places in the daytime. I do not go alone unless absolutely necessary, if I do I am very aware of my surroundings and if someone I do not know starts to approach me or even looks like they will be approaching me I get on my cell phone quickly sometimes I am not talking to anyone but I have had times when people who seemed to be approaching me thought I was on the phone quickly turned and walked away.
If they are still approaching me I loudly say hold on someone is walking toward me and describe what they look like, that way if something did happen the description is out before it does.If I go out after dark I am never alone not even to the local cigarette store just up the road.
Just be cautious and aware of your surroundings and always listen to that little voice inside you that tells you something isnt right, I know I can usually tell if someone is watching me or if something just dont feel right. That little voice is there for a reason, when we dismiss it things usually go wrong. When we dont sometimes we never know but I would rather never know than take a chance.
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March 22, 2009 at 7:35 pm #418101
tsgal
I agree with you Mdowdy, you should always beware of you surroundings. I usually don’t go anywhere after dark, can’t see to drive that well anyway. Plus if I do go out after dark I always have someone with me anyway.
You just never know what could happen next.
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March 22, 2009 at 9:03 pm #418113
rtebalt
Actually, if you speak with any gang expert they will tell you that a killing is highly unlikely to be a gang initiation. gang initiations are usually beatings (of the person being initiated) or something of that nature. and really, it makes perfect sense.
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March 22, 2009 at 10:01 pm #418117
mdowdy
@rtebalt 112787 wrote:
Actually, if you speak with any gang expert they will tell you that a killing is highly unlikely to be a gang initiation. gang initiations are usually beatings (of the person being initiated) or something of that nature. and really, it makes perfect sense.
thats interesting but makes sense. from what i understand that is exactly what happened in this instance. they caught the guy and he ratted out the gang he was supposedly joining.
i don’t know what happened after that because our paper if famous for starting a story and then you never hear what happens.
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March 22, 2009 at 11:08 pm #418123
naturalmommy
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