Thursday, March 19, 2009

Walmart Shootings. OMFG, Srsly, people?

...wait, what? This is seriously no different than little Timmy who needs a liver transplant and will get one if you forward this email 5000000 times, or that Bill Gates is tracking your email and will award you with money the more people you send it to.

Or, more accurately, that imaginary horse tranquilizer drug that was so easy to get a hold of that people were spiking drinks with (or not) a few months back.

No one is getting shot at the Walmart on Memorial in Port Arthur, TX. Or if they do, it's because some jackass got this text message 16 times today and decided to make it come true[not me, I only received it 8 times].

Seriously.
http:​/​/​urbanlegends.​about.​com/​b/​2009/​03/​18/​police-​walmart-​gang-​initation-​rumors-​are-​false.​htm

http:​/​/​www.​wctv.​tv/​home/​headlines/​41402677.​html

http:​/​/​www.​selmatimesjourn​al.​com/​news/​2009/​mar/​17/​dont-​fuel-​rumors-​through-​belief/​

http:​/​/​www.​sun-​sentinel.​com/​news/​local/​palmbeach/​sfl-​031809-​gang-​hoax,​0,​6556136.​story

http:​/​/​www.​palmbeachpost.​com/​localnews/​content/​local_​news/​epaper/​2009/​03/​18/​0318walmart.​html

For a more local take..

http:​/​/​www.​panews.​com/​breakingnews/​local_​story_​077173110.​html

And finally, most damning..

http:​/​/​www.​snopes.​com/​crime/​gangs/​walmart.​asp -- SINCE 2005, PEOPLE, SERIOUSLY!

EDIT: Ok, Blogger has gone horribly stunted, and I can't get the links to work. Copy and paste, please. Long story short, this BS text message is old news. Don't believe it.

2 comments:

Erin Palette said...

Your links are b0rken.

Salem MacGourley said...

Yeah, sorry. Copied that directly out of MySpace. Two seconds.