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    City says ignore satirical Facebook page urging hundreds to 'Purge'

    I think this goes a bit too far.


    City says ignore satirical Facebook page urging hundreds to 'Purge'

    If you were thinking of dressing up in your favorite mask from "The Purge" and heading out to a city park at midnight Saturday for what you think is a real casting call – stay home.
    A satirical City of Buffalo Facebook page posted a fake casting call citing a need for 300 to 400 extras for "Purge: The Island," which started filming in Buffalo on Monday. The post encouraged people to "just get into character and start Purging, just like in the movies."
    In the "Purge" movies, crime is legalized for 12 hours during which violent masked gangs terrorize people.
    "It's a fake, phony page, not authorized," said the mayor's spokesman Michael DeGeorge. "The mayor does not condone it and is concerned that potentially dangerous misleading information is being posted. The city has reached out to Facebook, making them aware of the situation, and we are waiting to hear back from them."


    http://buffalonews.com/2017/09/27/sa...undreds-purge/



    "Our purpose is simply to make light of the comical situations in everyday life here in Buffalo and stress the importance of not believing everything you read on the internet," the administrator wrote in a Facebook message inquiry. "If you show up, in a high crime area in the middle of the night, hopefully it will teach you a lesson to consider the source."
    What the author of the page did was do a "call to action" post not make like of a comical situation.

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    In a Facebook Messenger exchange, the administrator professed to being "weary" about being identified because of the "knee-jerk reaction" to the post. The person claimed to have not been contacted by any officials for the city or from Facebook, nor received any media inquiries except from The Buffalo News.
    "No one has made any attempt to contact us is a polite or professional manner still.
    Why would anyone be "polite" about the above post?

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