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Messages circulated in late 2009 warned about gangs engaging in a National Gang Week scheme of using bloody car seats as lures to trick unsuspecting female motorists out of their cars, then beating and raping them: These warnings carried all the hallmarks of numerous other gang-related urban legends:In all the years we've been tracking this legend, we have not turned up any reports of any gangs (much less simultaneous efforts by gangs all across the country) using car seats as lures to entice motorists out of their vehicles, nor do any of our police contacts recall encountering any such activity. The agency to whom the above-quoted warning has been attributed, the Tennessee Department of Corrections, issued a disclaimer stating that it could not be substantiated: Another agency to whom the e-mail has been attributed, the Harrisonburg [Virginia] Police Department, stated that it cannot verify the information in these messages and advised recipients please do not send them to anyone else. Yet another law enforcement agency dragged into the fray was the Police Department in Edmond, Oklahoma. The signature block of one of its officers, Sgt. Scott Fees, has been attached to the mailing, causing some who've received it to believe the caution was a genuine warning issued by local law enforcement. Spokeswoman Glynda Chu said the e-mail is not true and that It is a shame people will go to such lengths to frighten people and that they would go as far as to cut and paste Sgt. Fees' name to a hoax to make it look legitimate.
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