Gang initiation

Anyone else heard about this?

Apparantly this is a gang intitiation that has been taking place in Manchester and London and there are warnings that it is soon to catch on in Birmingham.

The new member of the gang has to travel in a car through town at night without any headlights. The first vehicle to flash at them is chased and once alongside the new member has to shoot a bullet through the car window from a handgun. The intitiation proves the new member is prepared to take the risk of killing someone.

Makes you feel safe eh? Don't flash your headlights at anyone driving through town with no headlights on! Or if you do carry a gun and shoot them first!

its a spoof/fake scare story mate,theres a site somewhere where yiu can check what urban legends/rumours are real and which ones arent

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp

Urban legend.

Originally Posted by Paws

its a spoof/fake scare story mate,theres a site somewhere where yiu can check what urban legends/rumours are real and which ones arent

Well thats good then. Except what if these spoof/fake scare stories just gave every violent gang the bloody idea? Had I received the email I'd have known by the melodramatic wording that it was a load of nonsense, but I heard it second hand. What idiot makes these things up then spreads them around?

Couldn't get into the Pallasades shopping centre in Birmingham today, a gang of three stabbed the security guard and police cordoned it.

If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and asks you to show him your bum, do not show him your bum.
This is a scam - he only wants to see your bum.
I wish I had heard about this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap!

So there is a serious beating to be had when you join a lot of gangs though, that's not an urban legend.

I know a lad that had this done... to himself, for some reason.

[tonyk]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and asks you to show him your bum, do not show him your bum.
This is a scam - he only wants to see your bum.
I wish I had heard about this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap!

i glad that im not the only one that has shown his bum.....

[northwind]

"Beating in". Odd custom that, beating someone else up I could understand, I always thought half the point of being in a gang was to avoid getting beaten up. Maybe it's a suppressed homosexuality thing. I'll ask the next street gang I see.

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and asks you to show him your bum, do not show him your bum.
This is a scam - he only wants to see your bum.
I wish I had heard about this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap!

Originally Posted by tonyk

i glad that im not the only one that has shown his bum.....

Listen here both you of. You both may be pretty stupid, thats true enough.

BUT i did think you both had nice enough bums

I still feel cheap.