RCMP Warning

RCMP Warning
Myth Untrue

Copy of the hoax email:

RCMP WarningPlease pass this on! Important police warning. Very scary. Started in Manitoba… now in Saskatchewan… now moving west. Police Warning – For Your Information: This is an extremely serious matter. If you are driving after dark and you see a car without its head-lights on, DO NOT flash your lights, DO NOT blow your horn or make ANY signals to the driver of the other car. There is a new common gang initiation ‘game’ going on the streets. The new member being initiated drives along without his headlights on until someone notices and flashes their headlights or makes some sort of other action to signal him. The gang member is now required to chase the car and shoot at or into the car in order to complete his initiation requirements.
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The hoax message included above is just the latest in a long line of similar “warnings”. Like earlier versions, the information in the email is untrue. A disclaimer on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) debunks the story as a hoax.

he following e-mail hoax has been circulating in Canada with an RCMP signature. One of our Saskatchewan employees sent this e-mail on to others in good faith without realizing it was untrue. The information contained in the e-mail is FALSE and the RCMP regrets any unnecessary alarm this may have caused the public.

False warnings such as this one can waste the valuable time of law enforcement personnel who are obligated to answer questions about the messages from concerned members of the public. They can spread unnecessary fear and alarm and they may even encourage copycat criminals to try such stunts in real life.

These emails should be deleted rather than forwarded.

~ by dragonfire on November 8, 2007.