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02-07-2004, 07:10 PM | #16 | |
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02-10-2004, 06:34 PM | #17 |
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Firing squad is waaay too easy a punishment.
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02-11-2004, 12:35 AM | #18 |
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What if they don't pin the target over his heart? Would that be better?
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02-11-2004, 05:44 AM | #19 |
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I live in Sarasota and believe me this is a tragedy, but the worst thing is we can't find out anything but the very barest of facts. I question why the Amber alert didn't go out sooner? She was abducted at 6:21 p.m. and her mother called the police at 6:30p.m..........seems like if they had posted amber alert immediately someone could very likely have seen them as it is that kind of town. We watch over our children and I worry that this will bring in the wrong type of element since it took so long.
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02-11-2004, 10:16 AM | #20 | |
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My prayers go out to Carlie's family. Aries872 Last edited by Aries872; 02-11-2004 at 10:18 AM. |
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02-11-2004, 10:59 AM | #21 |
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A friend's 15-yo daughter is chronically scared to death of strangers.
She won't be one of the hundreds abducted; she'll be one of the millions whose childhood has been taken away by the scare stories. |
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02-11-2004, 11:23 AM | #23 | |
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02-11-2004, 11:29 AM | #24 |
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I still think that all of this could have been prevented if the girl had just a bit of common sense...or a Benchmade Balisong.
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02-11-2004, 12:36 PM | #25 | |
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02-11-2004, 12:52 PM | #26 | |
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02-11-2004, 01:25 PM | #27 |
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I just looked at the Amazon page for that book. All I can say is, oh, that's just great -- start warning women 'maybe that quirky guy is really a rapist' just as I go back on the dating scene.
Just when you thought it was possible to break through someone's emotional shell. Thank you very much. Now I won't get laid until 2045 or whenever the planet is near decimation from the oil peak. |
02-11-2004, 01:26 PM | #28 |
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My morning's email contained a link to an editorial column on the child's murder.
In addition to containing a number of chilling statistics, the author notes, "The Justice Department concluded there were 115 kidnappings of this type in the United States in 1999. That's about one every three days, meaning that if every Carlie Brucia-type abduction were caught on videotape, cable networks could broadcast two a week. As it is, most go unreported nationally. It simply isn't big news anymore when a predator takes a kid." (emphasis added) What's been unclear from the coverage is how quickly the information was released to the local news media ... since it's unlikely for someone to be transported great distances under these circumstances, local coverage has got to be a more effective crime fighting tool than national ... why spend manhours chasing down leads that the child may have been seen in Manhattan?
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02-11-2004, 04:35 PM | #29 |
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What bothers me intensely (I have a three and four year old) is that almost every one of these perps already has a conviction of some sort on his record.
Can't we figure out who these people are and at least keep an eye on them somehow? I know how unfair that might be to the unfairly labeled but do we need to bring up the risk-reward thing? Before I had kids, I just shook my head when I heard about these things. Now, I actually lose sleep over them.
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02-12-2004, 01:03 PM | #30 | |
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I don't minimize how appalling this event was for Sarasota, but for the rest of the country to get caught up in it is passing strange. Get a Neighborhood Watch set up and get to know your neighbors, build a community, do your best, but don't steal childhood from the children. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Griff
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