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|    Lee Lofaso to All    |
|    Knockout Game    |
|    13 Jul 14 00:01:51    |
      Hello Everybody,              I am sure that everybody has heard of the "Knockout Game" -       as widely reported by CNN, FoxNews, and other cable networks.       For those who are a total recluse and refuse to watch the       boob tube, the story is that teenagers have run amok, run       up and smack a total stranger on side the head in an attempt       to knock them out with a single blow.              I am sure teenagers have done this. But in epidemic proportions,       as reported/suggested by cable news outlets? Of that I am not so       sure.              Kids will be kids, and will be dared by other kids to do stupid       things, such as punching a total stranger in the face in broad       daylight. But sooner or later, mommy and daddy will find out       about it and put a quick end to their driving privileges and       that will be the end of their budding knockout game career.              Teenagers trying to bash people's skulls in. People who       are usually bigger and stronger than them. And folks actually       believed those cable news stories as fact.              Such is the power of cable news outlets. Attempt to make       the crimes fit a trend. Reporting a few true incidents in       an effort to inspire a handful of copycat crimes, blown       up totally out of proportion to appear as an epidemic.              May we all live in a land of idiots.              http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp              --Lee              --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb        * Origin: news://felten.yi.org (2:203/2)    |
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