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Claim: Gang initiates in Montgomery, Alabama, are sneaking into cars at service stations and raping white female motorists.
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, February 2008]
Origins: The above-quoted alert regarding prospective gang members jumping into cars at Montgomery-area service station convenience stores and trying to rape white, female motorists is yet another in a long line of spurious Montgomery station WSFA-TV also looked into the warnings and was unable to confirm them:
The note says police are trying to keep it quiet. So we asked someone else about the claim.
Last updated: 5 March 2008
Alishyia Brown is a cashier at the gas station many of the emails refer to. "It's Montgomery Police spokesman Huey Thornton says he's also passed several copies on to investigators. "We have checked and double checked in reference to this email and determined it's a hoax," he said. Logic would also suggest if a rapist was trying to get away with something, the Mitylene gas station the email talks about would make a bad choice. "We're always busy, first second and third, we have police officers, sheriffs, state troopers come here sometime, we have surveillance cameras all around the building," said Brown. And yet the email it continues to fly around fanning the flames of fear. There's actually a second version of the email floating around which talks about a similar incident at a gas station on Vaughn Road at the Peppertree shopping center. Capt. Thorton says police have no record of any such incident there, either. Of course, the only way we or police could ever confirm if something really happened is if a victim stepped forward, and so far, no one has. Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2008 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.  Sources:
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