The latest "Scary Scenario for Women" internet tale, confirm or refute!

RAPE PANICS are my favourite moral panics.

roffle, what utter rubbish.

Oh, I just noticed the classic opener:

Guys please pass this along to all the women you know.....

Yup, you protectice guys, you tell those women. Because the girls can't work the internet or email properly!

SINGLE LADIES, I CAN'T HEAR YOU
SINGLE LADIES, MAKE NOISE
SINGLE LADIES, I CAN'T HEAR YOU
SINGLE LADIES, MAKE NOISE

this is my favourite part;
"He replied, he was joining a gang and the initiation to join is to kidnap a woman and bring her back to the gang to be raped by every member of the gang. If the woman was still alive by the time they finish with her then they let her go."

Wow, the police must have some amazing interrogation tactics if they managed to get that detailed confession out of the 'man'.

You should always lock your car at a petrol station to avoid getting it ripped off, or the things in your car ripped off.

This:

He replied, he was joining a gang and the initiation to join is to kidnap a woman and bring her back to the gang to be raped by every member of the gang......because the guy didn't have a weapon on him. The police could only charge him with trespassing

Seems a bit unlikely? He was caught in the act of hiding in someone's car, he admitted to the cops that he was planning to rape somebody, yet they only hit him for trespass? I suspect that this is another one of "those" emails.

The police thought about getting a stand-in policewoman to go through the scenario and then ambush the gang. But they couldn't be arsed.

They should make it illegal to believe anything that's put in front of your fucking face

The scary part of this is because the guy didn't have a weapon on him

Actually that would have been the least scary part, the woman would more than likely have been able to kick his arse.

I HEARD THAT BEFORE THEY RAPED HER THEY USED A SWAN TO BREAK HER ARM AND THEN DISSOLVED IT IN COLA

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/backseat.asp

So this incident happens just after Louis Jagger suddenly decides he needs more time for his "work".

Just saying, like.

that last knife rape was parody

i was fishing earlier last year and a couple of swans came up to my peg for food. One of the swans did that rising up and swishing of its wings thing and fucking hell that is one powerful swish, even if it didn't break your arm i wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of it - the swan was a little too close to me for comfort.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/graphics/backseat.jpg

guy seriously this happened to twelve women i know it's not funny

guy seriously this happened to twelve women i raped it's not funny

SNOPES

He replied, he was joining a gang and the initiation to join is to kidnap a woman and bring her back to the gang to be raped by every member of the gang. If the woman was still alive by the time they finish with her then they let her go.

he added matter of factly.

I can never seem to find what I'm looking for on snopes. Could they possibly make it more annoying to search?

All these things have exactly the same passive faux-story voice, it's creepy.

The best part really is the "well he didn't have a weapon so we let him go, lol" part.

Some hard-nosed investigative journalist should do a documentary where he traces these letters back to the people who start them, and then hounds them within an inch of their life on camera

TO CATCH A SPAMMER

I would not be averse to a clothesline taking place, if it seemed like the initial hounding was not making compelling enough TV

when can we have a reality show where the contestants have to act out urban legend scenarios to see if they really work

Some of these hoaxes have existed in this kind of form since before mass email apparently they used to arrive by letter and then by fax.

We had one sent to us that was the basic Snopes version except they had done some research found out the name/email etc of the local crime prevention office and added the police logo and signature details of this person to the hoax.

What annoys me as an email admin is constantly having users forwarding this type of shit around without checking first. I think people have some sort of "hey i'm in the loop, just looking out for ya in this crazy world" superiority complex which makes them forward this bollocks around.

I blame the Express/Mail.

Have any Spammers ever been caught? I think someone would be a national hero if they did that.

when can we have a reality show where the contestants have to act out urban legend scenarios to see if they really work

this is what "Fear Factor" should have been

(international even)

xp to me

If the woman was still alive by the time they finish with her then they let her go.

Fake criminals are always the most compassionate.

"your assignment is to remove somebody's kidney and write on the hotel mirror in their own blood 'GET HELP NOW' - if you really want the 10,000 dollars you'd better hop to it"

when can we have a reality show where the celebrities have to act out urban legend scenarios to see if they really work

fixed

Some hard-nosed investigative journalist should do a documentary where he traces these letters back to the people who start them, and then hounds them within an inch of their life on camera

-- That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 14 January 2008 14:42 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yes! Damn straight....

maybe switching 'hounds' for 'beats'.

which is what kate bush should've done, on another note.

Clotheslines for the initiators, on-camera hounding for the believers, OK?

and none of your dangly-arm Ultimate Warrior shit here, I'm talking a Burning Lariat with a fuckin run-up and a Japanese guy shouting excitably in the background

proper order too

Have any Spammers ever been caught? I think someone would be a national hero if they did that.

you want to set aside half an hour and a bit of floor for rofflage, then read all about "mr bukkake" here.

see also 419eater dot com, etc.

doh! web page denial. i'll check it out when i get home. cheers

What annoys me as an email admin is constantly having users forwarding this type of shit around without checking first.

This used to happen to me all the time, I got so fed up with it I would just send them back with "Yes, this is true and not only that but there is a lunatic on the loose and he has a hook for an arm. Be careful out there." The people who sent them to me were always the same people who propagated ghost/ufo/abduction/MMR scare stories as well. Grrrrrr.

i've had this kind of fight with our IT department -- esp when they sent round one about "DO NOT PRESS #9 ON YOUR PHONE, IT WILL DESTROY THE MOON" or something.

it's done wonders for my already fantastic relationship with them. no, really.

My favourite is "IF YOU TYPE YOUR PIN NUMBER BACKWARDS THE POLICE WILL TURN UP AND ARREST ALL RAPISTS IN THE AREA".

First person to say "PIN number is a tautology" gets the rapes, btw.

sweet

I just got sent this one...
http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/directions.asp
...which has a similar theme but with added 'never trust anyone esp. people asking directions. THEY WILL SHOOT YOU STRAIGHT IN THE HEAD.

"Can you tell me how to get to the Four Seasons?"
"Sure, go up the street a block and-" *BLAM*

Oh God these are so stupid

As soon as the initiation is complete, they become a member

Because that's an important part of the warning.

"As soon as the initiation is complete, they go into a 30 day probationary period where they have partial access to gang resources but still may have full membership revoked should the candidate prove to lack ruggish-thuggishness."

Yeah, I remember the 'Sinister' list.

http://joshreads.com/images/0608/i060813apt3g.jpg

Don't pay for your petrol yet.....walk around the store for a while and act as if you're picking up some other things to buy.

Bah, amateur shoplifters. :P