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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Lake County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Bonnie Bales's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Marge Skalba. In this variant, a woman is buying some gas when the station attendant informs her that he must call the police because her money is counterfeit. Once she is inside the gas station, the attendant informs her that he actually wanted to save her from the negro crouching in her back seat.
Informant	Bales, Bonnie
Collector	Skalba, Marge
Date of Original	1969-12-30
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Lake County -- 1969
Subject	Criminals Automobiles Automobile service stations African Americans
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-01
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-AssailantInTheBackseat013

Assailant in the backseat, Lake County, Indiana

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