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Lubbock Police Address Dangerous Gas Pump Emails

By: Allison Morrison
Updated: March 15, 2013
Have you recently received an email or seen a Facebook post about box cutters hidden in handles of gas pumps in Lubbock?

Police say it's just a hoax.

The email claims people have been cut while pumping gas on several occasions over the last few weeks.

Sergeant Jonathan Stewart said Lubbock police have no reports of these incidents and he believes them not to be true.

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