Michigan Gangs on the Loose

Mass hysteria swept Flint, Michigan today. Amid school lock downs and parents scrambling to get their kids to take them home, police were inundated with calls about the gangs that were roving around Flint shooting women in the head at gas stations. Last count, eight dead.

It is all a hoax and is even being perpetuated by bloggers on the Flint Journal web site, some of whom say they saw the suspects being questioned at an area fire station, and those who say they know someone who knows someone who knows someone who got shot, or heard about someone who knows someone that heard they knew someone who knew someone that got shot. Among what they are saying;

Date: Oct 1, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Warning: Flint Area on High Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Body: The Flint area is on high alert for Detroit area gangs (Detroit Demons/MS-13), who are planning on gang initiations by killing innocent women pumping gas at area gas stations. Pontiac has had women killed recently at gas stations. If your a lady, have a man pump your gas.

This Pontiac shooting never happened, another hoax.

We have talked to the nurses from the ER, and various cops and ex cops and they all say it is real and up to 8 ppl shot. I think they are tryin to cover it up, and think its stupid of them to not warn people hoax or not, just because they are tryin to avoid panic. I think it should be treated the same as any bomb threat, with the possibility of danger, and precautions should be taken.

This a blast as I work at an area hospital and know for a fact this person is totally lying.

So you do not care about the safety of the people around you?

Why would the cops and nurses lie about this?

You have no proof that this isn't real so what does it matter that you have this "phhhh whatver" attitude about it?

I know for a fact that only one area hospital has received only one shooting victim, and that person is a male.

My uncle works for the fire department in Flint and he was there for the interogation of some of the gang members that were arrested and told them about the plan. He said it isn't a rumor, it is true. As my mom was talking to him, the scanner reported a gun shot victim being taken to Hurley

Um, I am a firefighter too and I know this to not be true. There WAS one shooting of a male. Typical day for Flint. It is amazing how people will flat out lie about these things. And why would a firefighter be in on these interrogations?

It's kind scary when something like this happens, how can we know it's only a hoax? I sure hope so as there were rumors of a total of 8 women been shot in Flint alone today even though none of media outlets has reported any of that.

They didn't report it because it didn't happen. Duh.

As far as parents who were scrambling to get their kids out of school to take them home, dumb move. They are safer and better off at school than in a car with you driving hysterically looking for roving gangs that don't exist. People, you need to get lives. Calm down. If the media isn't showing it, it isn't happening. The media isn't going to conspire with the police to cover it as many are saying is happening. It would be making national news right now.