I just need to vent about the internet.

I work for a synagogue.  We started getting calls yesterday that someone of Arab descent was caught on our parking lot cameras photographing the synagogue at various angles and speeding away.

So here's the thing...we don't HAVE parking lot cameras.  We knew it was nonsense the moment we heard it.

So then we tried to damp that down a little bit, but it had hit facebook, and people were saying that someone was almost kidnapped.

Then I get a phone call from one of our congregants saying that they heard that my boss was in touch with Homeland Security about this.  (Srsly?  And how do you think that information would come to you if that were the case?)  I explained that he was in touch with Homeland Security several months ago regarding a grant to increase our security, but that any conversations with them were strictly financial in nature and had nothing to do with this debacle as it was unfolding.

The local police force contacted our synagogue asking if they could view our tapes.  WE DON'T HAVE TAPES.  They eventually tell us that there WAS a woman, who WAS being followed, who pulled over and took pictures of the people following her, who also took pictures of her.  That was everything that happened, and it was nowhere near our synagogue.

We released a statement with the police report information on that.  This has NOT died down.  Today we're hearing that what actually happened was that a woman was nearly kidnapped, but she managed to fight her way out of the trunk of the car.

When one of our congregants tried to reply-all to an email with 18 people on it saying that those cameras didn't even exist she was told, "NO.  I KNOW THIS IS TRUE."  Now I just found out that it has turned into Arabs kidnapping children.  *headdesk*

Our phones are going crazy because the internet won't shut up.  I need to bitchslap the internet so hard it bites its damn tongue.

Thank you for letting me rant.  It'd be funny if I wasn't in the middle of it right now.

Mowg