I interpreted it as people making up stories so that they didn't have to face the truth.
Or maybe the newspapers used it to write about things that couldn't be written.
> I interpreted it as people making up stories so that they didn't have to face the truth.
That's a very plausible interpretation. I grew up hearing about this myth :p
And the people attacked in the weird scene are people that tended to just be dissappeared by police. Gay men. Prostitutes.