Fire Risk Assessment London

We received a warning from the London Ambulance Service of activities in their region. While the underside of behavior is not common in our area, I have spoken with Greater Manchester Police and their risk assessment of action is to circulate to service a potential 'The London Ambulance were units closely associated with the police based in south London, which are primarily crimes of gang warfare.

"Street Gangs" The London (particularly South London at present, but it is sure to spread) have initiation tasks which new gang members have to complete to be admitted to the gang . The latest fashion is to go around, deliberately and without lights on their cars. The first person who 'flashes' them, points at them or sounds their horn at them, must be followed by that new gang member in their car, which must then fire a shot into the vehicle without worrying of who is inside.

Our official instruction is that if we see a vehicle without lights, we must not flash.

A bearded urban legend!

Too bad it's not true .. I think the challenge ...... I had to drive down to Salford pregnant!

Good old urban legends

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lig ...

It is a companion hoax

London Ambulance have even put a denial on their website!

In 2004, the hoax has jumped to Great Britain and through some form of garbling has come to be associated with the London Ambulance Service. In widely publicized warnings, it was alleged gangs in London have been the opening of new members into their ranks by having to prove their courage by pulling over motorists according to their lights blinked. In addition, many said the warning was "received and authenticated by the Unit of the Metropolitan Police intelligence."

The London Ambulance Service has posted this http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/talkin ...
HOAX E-MAIL
An e-mail purporting to be issued by the London Ambulance Service on the subject of crimes the police and gangs, was widely circulated in recent days.
This came from outside the Service and has been submitted by a staff member of Friends of good faith. Please be assured, however, we checked with the Metropolitan Police Service and the information contained is not authentic, so the message can be safely deleted.

What a wonderful rumor, no basis in reality. This hoax was the same in the U.S. a while ago!

Kieran is right. beat me to the punch with snopes.com

It is not true. Send this article to your employee who sent this warning so they know this is not true and they send false information to their employees.

Hoax!

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lig ...

Whenever you receive something like that or a quick visit to Google or Snopes hoaxbusters help you solve real fake. It could also be useful to see if your local police system upgrade or if something like this happen you actually receive an e-mail about this to warn you.

This old story .............. been around for centuries, not a single incident of this nature have been recorded.

I heard about it several times. I've never known to be true.

urban legend ...

Are you just trying to scare peoplea

I'd almost guarantee it's not real. Many communities (and at least two countries - I am in the U.S.) have heard this story before, and it was not the case.

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