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Like many other crime warnings that circulate via the Internet, the emailed example reproduced here purportedly provides details of a specific close call incident, albeit in third-hand fashion (the anonymous email's writer got the story from a credible source, who got it from Nicole or her mother). It warns readers that, although the criminal act related therein may have been thwarted in this particular case, the described danger is nonetheless omnipresent and ongoing. However, as is also typically the case with Internet-based crime warnings, although the crime scenario posited in this account might be a plausible one, police in the area mentioned (in this case Omaha, Nebraska) state that the incident on which the email was exaggerated and that the form of crime described therein is certainly not a rampant, city-wide phenomenon. Deputy Chief Mark Sundermeier, an Executive Officer/Professional Standards Bureau Commander with the Omaha Police Department, told us: Television station WOWT in Omaha reported: The Omaha World-Herald also reported: World-Herald reporter Bob Glissman spoke to the putative victim referenced in the original email, and she provided an account of events quite different than the one set out in the forwarded warning: The second part of the e-mailed warning that deals with creeps leaving notes on cars to give them time to run up on you when you go to remove these missives is just a regurgitation of a baseless Send this to everybody you care about! heads-up that has been circulating online since February 2004. It's still apocryphal, and Omaha is certainly not awash in such crimes.
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