http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/front/article/680167
Times & Transcript [Moncton, NB, Canada]
27 May 2009
Suspicious van report fuels fiction, fears
Man in van story based on fact, but Riverview incident grows into an urban myth
Brent Mazerolle
[...] The e-mails -- there are at least three versions with different details -- have spread through every workplace in the community and have been repeated by worried parents on every schoolyard. By yesterday, an initial story about a child or children being approached by a man or men in a van that has been variously described as red, burgundy, wine-coloured and purple -- with the man or men enticing the child or children with offers to pat either pet rats or pet rocks -- had devolved into verbal accounts of a Riverview girl actually being abducted and murdered by a man in a van. There has, of course, been no abduction or murder in Riverview this week. [...]
Times & Transcript [Moncton, NB, Canada]
27 May 2009
Suspicious van report fuels fiction, fears
Man in van story based on fact, but Riverview incident grows into an urban myth
Brent Mazerolle
[...] The e-mails -- there are at least three versions with different details -- have spread through every workplace in the community and have been repeated by worried parents on every schoolyard. By yesterday, an initial story about a child or children being approached by a man or men in a van that has been variously described as red, burgundy, wine-coloured and purple -- with the man or men enticing the child or children with offers to pat either pet rats or pet rocks -- had devolved into verbal accounts of a Riverview girl actually being abducted and murdered by a man in a van. There has, of course, been no abduction or murder in Riverview this week. [...]
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