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Part Two: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere

Behind the Bastards

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The College Station Police Department's Call to Action

Facebook memes started spreading in college station, Texas about a kidnapping plot that involved zip tying a victim's windshield wipers together and then abducting the inevitably female victim while she struggles to take them off. One version of the meme ends with this very chain lettery call to action. Please be aware of your surroundings and drive somewhere safe with a lot of people around before trying to remove them if this happens to you. And the college station police started getting queries once this post went viral. So they took to Twitter and they posted on Twitter, did you see the post about zip ties and human trafficking? We don't know whether traffickers are doing this or if it's a distraction technique used by a

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