I have more than one "friend" from work that sends me the urban legend spam, you know the ones....somebody's hiding in the trunk, congress doesn't pay social security, Obama is an undercover muslim/socialist/fascist/communist(I learned the differences in these when I was in high school, I'm wondering if some of my work associates ever finished high school),under the car, swilling perfume, walking with a big dog, bringing home a mexican rat and leaving a kidney behind, those stupid things. When I get them, I go to Snopes and send back the link to show that its not true...and ask/tell them, once again, to check these out before sending to me...do they? Nope.
So a couple of days ago, I get the: Gangs are using baby carriers in the road to rob people!!!!! Oh...and this was sent from a police memo and the last line was that it was checked out at snopes....sure. So, I go to snopes(through the portal, not the link provided--who knows? That could be a phishing site) and find out, that OH MY GOD--ITS FALSE! Who'da thunk? So, I send the link, hit reply(but hit reply all instead of just reply, should teach me about doing these late at night). Figure that's it. Do with it what you will.
The next morning, I have 2 responses; one from the friend that states: It was a police memo, therefore it must be true. She also received it on April 1
The other response? Get this:
SO WHAT IF THIS IS FALSE. IT CERTAINLY CAN HAPPEN. STRANGER THINGS HAVE.
in all caps. HUH?????? So, in her world, facts don't matter, honesty doesn't matter...only the boogey man and gossip??? And we wonder why so many people believe the republicons lies? Much easier to make yourself feel less of a moron when the Limpd**ks, Oreilly's Hannity's Bachman's, Palin's of the world use that ignorance/bigotry/stupidity of yours to screw all of us into the wall...
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