Urban Legends Reference Pages: Crime (Garland Alert)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Crime (Garland Alert)
Quote: According to the investigations of NBC 5 in Dallas/Fort Worth, Garland police confirm there has not been such an attack. Yet the advisory, which has been jumping from inbox to inbox, has caused the police in that community some grief in that they’ve had to field a number of calls from those spooked by it. “This story has been over a week old and we are still getting calls today,” officer Joe Harn said.
Although NBC 5 did not supply the name of the e-mail’s author, they have been in contact with him to ascertain what caused him to write it. A friend had told him the tale, and he believed he was doing a good deed by spreading the story online. He has since learned otherwise, having discovered the story he took as gospel and passed to others was false. He now regrets writing the e-mail.
D’oh.