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I just received this warning at our office.......

Police officers working with the DARE program has issued this warning:

If you are driving after dark and see an on-coming car with no headlights on, DO NOT FLASH YOUR LIGHTS AT THEM! This is a common Bloods gang member "Initiation game" that goes like this:

The new gang member under initiation drives along with no headlights, and the first car to flash their headlights at him is now his "target".
He is now required to turn around and chase that car, then shoot and kill every individual in the vehicle in order to complete his initiation requierements.

Police Depts across the nation are being warned that September 23rd and 24th is the "blood" initiation weekend. Thier intent to have all the new bloods nationwide drive around on Friday and Saturday nights with their headlights off. In order to be accepted into the gang, they have to shoot and kill all individuals in the first auto that does a courtesy flash to warn them that their lights are off. Make sure you share this information with all the drivers in you family.

Please forward this message to all your friends and family members to inform them about this initiation. You can save someone's life if you heed to this warning.
 
I just received and email that this is some movie scene at "Urban Legends" and its a waste of time to be forwarding it...first, let me tell you, I for one am not one who is forwarding bulk/junk emails.....dont have time for that........I work for a city agency and it has been verified by the NYPD .....that this occurs this time of year.....so I took my time to forward it to all my CF friends, to allert them

So do please keep this in mind, Thanks
 
I never flash my lights at people who have their headlights off..not that I'm worried bout this lil gang thing ...it's not my problem..u shouldve remembered to put your lights on.
 
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latinocop said:
Sorry to bust your bubble, but this is all but an urban legend. It has been going on since the 1980's with the Hell's Angels.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp
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LatinCop, I never said it was a new thing...........IT IS THE TIME OF YEAR THEY ARE DOING THEIR INITIATIONS.........Ive seen this myself on e-mails.....years after year.:yoplease
 
BabyBeTTYBooP said:
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LatinCop, I never said it was a new thing...........IT IS THE TIME OF YEAR THEY ARE DOING THEIR INITIATIONS.........Ive seen this myself on e-mails.....years after year.:yoplease
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Exactly year after year, because they use the same dates. And they resurface every year. It's just an urban legend nothing more. If this was the case there would be many deaths etc. Which there are not. Read the link, and it will show how much of a hoax this is.
 
I'm from the Bronx, NY, and I always always, and I mean ALWAYS did not get a good feeling about someone driving with their headlights out at night. Not only does it look retarted, but you can tell that there is something wrong with someone doing that. Like something is not normal. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people do that around here.
 
The only blood initiation I heard around here are slashing a stranger's face. 🙂
 
I've read it. Nice to know the history.....anyone can be that next person...but we dont want that, right, but anyways...

It has been forward to our district office via fax.....not even an email.......for imformation/warning purposes and I thought I post it cause its that weekend.

Have a safe night everyone!
 
Enigma said:
The only blood initiation I heard around here are slashing a stranger's face. 🙂
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Just had to post this.....a friend, and from another state...emailed this to me.......point proven.....!!!

Latin Cop, not sure if you're a cop, but if you are.......make sure, you let your captain know.....🙂 :director

Hey Sweetie, I just want to say thank you for the send out. I wish i could reply all and i plan to when i get home but just to let you know i deal with alot of police departments as well and i printed that out and showed it to one of the gang task force officers, cause he happened to come into my work today, and he said that it is true. He said that it hasn't been brought to my area, and that it is more down south but all the same. It is what it is, and your email was a precaution, i appriciate it. I will say something tonight in regards to this, but what you stated in your send out was correct. Stay sweet. If you wish to forward this out be my guest. Much Luv,
 
In August 1993, a major outbreak of this scare swept the United States as the legend spread quickly with the help of fax machines and e-mail forwards. The early fears were further intensified when a new round of faxes went out a few weeks later, these announcing a "Blood initiation weekend" of September 25 and 26 of that year:
Police Depts across the nation are being warned that this is the "blood" initiation weekend. Their intent is to have all the new bloods nationwide drive around on Saturday and Sunday nights with their headlights off. In order to be accepted into the gang, they have to shoot and kill all individuals in the first auto that does a courtesy flash to warn them that their lights are off.
"Blood initiation weekend" came and went without incident. Meanwhile, fake memos continued to circulate, each issuing a dire warning about this new gang initiation rite. The alerts looked credible — they were printed on what was purported to be Sacramento (California) or Illinois State Police letterhead. The police department in Lynn (Massachusetts) also got into the act when a prankster induced it to issue a warning. All three of those law enforcement agencies fielded thousands of calls about the alerts they had supposedly authored.
The false rumor struck especially hard in Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, New York State, California, and Texas. From the end of 1993 until February 1994, it went into remission. Then a Massillon woman revived it with a one-page handwritten flier that said police were warning women to be aware because a gang was coming from Detroit to recruit members. Initiation would be to kill a woman at Belden Village Mall. In one night, she sent faxes to several dozen businesses. Police arrested Ann Sibila the next day and charged her with inducing panic.

The rumor lay dormant until October 1998 when it again whipped around the Internet and through fax machines. The warnings this time were said to have originated with a DARE police officer in Houston, Texas. Once again, it was the same old story — no gang initiations, no killings, just a hoax on the loose. A hoax which quickly spread to all parts of the U.S.A.

Scares of this ilk easily pick up additional believability based on who does the forwarding. The 1998 version was given an extra little boost in San Diego when Housing Commission staffers there forwarded the warning to other city departments, including the Mayor's office and City Council. Though the "warning" was quickly debunked and short-circuited at City Hall, this didn't happen before those forwards — now issuing from a local government agency and thus much more likely to be believed — spread far and wide.

In common with versions in circulation in other parts of the country, the San Diego warning was said to have originated with the Sheriff's Department. (In most every community this warning reaches, the "Sheriff's Department" mentioned in the memo is always presumed to be the local one.) Debunking in San Diego was simple; someone at City Hall contacted the actual Sheriff's Department for confirmation. "We certainly did not send it out," said Lt. Ronald Van Raaphorst.

Sometimes the actual warning does come from a real Sheriff's Department. In the fall of 1998, the Nassau Sheriff's Office in Florida forwarded the warning to the Fire Department, who subsequently sent it to every department in the city. In this case, the mistake originated with the Sheriff's Office; it hadn't bothered to check out a fax before forwarding it to others:
Still, Ann Johnson, who supervises Nassau County dispatchers, said she thought the memo was serious enough to distribute. One of her part-time dispatchers brought it to her office and told her he had confirmed it with Jacksonville police, she said. So her office sent it to various agencies in the county.
The 1998 prize for most authoritative vectoring of this canard goes to Art Eggleton, Canada's Minister of Defence. On 20 November 1998, his office dispatched an "!!URGENT!!" security warning for all Ontario Members of Parliament. Later that same day, his office followed up the warning with an update advising recipients the original story was false.
In 2004 in Los Angeles, 23-year-old Eduardo Cardenas was killed in a manner that appears to mimic the legend, but since all the facts are not yet known, no real conclusion can be drawn. While stopped for a red light in the early evening on 5 November 2004, he called out to the two occupants of the vehicle to his left to make them aware of their car's headlights not being on. The passenger in that other car produced a gun and fired several shots at Cardenas, striking him in the upper torso. The young man so assaulted died shortly after being transported by ambulance to Northridge Hospital.

Other than these two incidents, one in 1993 and one in 2004 (and even in those cases we're not sure what prompted the acts, whether they were "lights out" shootings, or if a popular rumor was used to cover something else, or if the violence and the intelligences about headlights were unrelated), there have been no documented "Lights Out!" shootings.
 
let's reverse it on them.... if u see a car driving with no headlights on follow 'em & shoot 'em down!!!!! :uzi j/k I've heard this one about 10 years ago!!!! 🙂
 
This been going for years before I came on. First it was gang initiation, then when the bloods were "popular" it was them that was going to do it. Us cops aren't the smartest of the bunch. They get something and just send it out. Just like people that aren't cops. If it was in fact true wouldn't there been many killings during this time. Where's all the bodies. Something to make you go Hummmmmmm.
 
sietzsounds said:
let's reverse it on them.... if u see a car driving with no headlights on follow 'em & shoot 'em down!!!!! :uzi j/k I've heard this one about 10 years ago!!!! 🙂
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Ha ha ha! Good one sietzsounds!

The only time I flash my lights on & off is when I'm trying to warn the other guys of the cop down the road setting up the speedtrap. LOL! JK!
 
sietzsounds said:
let's reverse it on them.... if u see a car driving with no headlights on follow 'em & shoot 'em down!!!!! :uzi j/k I've heard this one about 10 years ago!!!! 🙂
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LOL.... I've realized that Ive flashed at people who dont have their light on....never again......and Its not that Ive not seen this, cause I have, but never put my thought to it..but since we received it at an elected officials office....I wanted to forward it.
 
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