Claim: An abduction attempt was foiled at a
FALSE
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]
Please read this...this is the new walmart in Saginaw
This past Saturday night around 10:30 p.m., I drove to my local
The man let me go and ran for the van where his partner was waiting and they drove off. After I stopped shaking, thanked the man prefusely, I got in my car and left to go home. Before I got to my subdivision, the van was behind my car. At this point, I wouldn't enter my subdivision (I didn't want them to know where I lived) and I started driving around and call the 911 operator. The 911 operator relied my call to the local police department and between the 911 operator and the police they were advising me what to do until they could reach me. Finally, the police told me to exit at the next street and give them the intersection I was at. When I did this, the van came up on my right and sat there watching me, waiting for me to make a move, I told the 911 operator I was slowly backing up to the highway and the van was moving towards me. At this point, the police showed up and the men in the van sped past us very quickly. The police were able to get the license plate and description of the vehicle as they sped off. The police called for assistance and gave me an escort home. Upon talking with a friend of mine yesterday, she informed me that I was the
So, please everyone be very careful out there, don't take anything for granted and if this happens to you please put up a fight and draw attention to the situation. This may be the only thing that saves you.
Origins: In these past few years, we've been noting a growing trend in Internet-spread warnings about women being targeted for violent crime (e.g., kidnapping, rape, murder), with many of the newer alerts specify the violations are either slated to take place at a
crime.
Fitting this trend is the mid-October 2005 e-mail about an attempted abduction at a
Chief Macon also reports that one of his sergeants spoke with a teacher at an elementary school in nearby Keller who, by virtue of her signature block's appearing on many of the forwards, has been presumed the author of the warning. That woman says Chief Macon, was not the writer of the
Barbara "pandora's inbox" Mikkelson
Last updated: 22 July 2011