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Missing people

topic posted Sat, August 6, 2005 - 6:16 AM by  Bob Shipman
What's going on...

People are missing all over the place! Has America grown in population to the point of losing members of our society???

Nationally, and locally.
Or has it always been this way, we are reporting it better/worst
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Bob Shipman
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    Re: Missing people

    Mon, August 8, 2005 - 12:49 AM
    It's always been like this. It's a big country. The population's grown so much in the past 35 years. There's always a ratio of missing persons. More people, more missing people... some of them might have escaped... from overbearing parents... but that would only be one factor.
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    Re: Missing people

    Mon, August 8, 2005 - 10:21 AM
    I'll liken this summer to the "summer of the shark attack" a few years back. There was so much media coverage of shark attacks it seemed as if you couldn't go in the water for anything.

    The reality, you're more likely to get hit by lightening than attacked by a shark.

    Interesting in the media right now though is the attention that is being drawn to the fact that missing white women get all the media attention while hundreds of minorities go missing every day and no one ever hears about it.
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      Re: Missing people

      Mon, August 8, 2005 - 6:06 PM
      what is it called sensationalism...the media seems to feed off off of race baiting, we know the latino situation personally in west philly, its sad...

      How ever the officials are responding to the media frenzy, no one wants to look bad on this one

      # boys were found locked in a car trunck while the search spread out to surrounding areas.
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    Re: Missing people

    Thu, August 11, 2005 - 8:19 AM
    I have a hypothesis. There's some crazy evil crap going on with the kidnapping ring of pretty, young girls for the purpose of slave labor as prostitutes.

    I'm not too educated on mythology. However, may be the higher power is trying to rid that evil by flooding. Someone educated in the bible might be able to help test this hypothesis.

    This is a crazy hypothesis. It's trying to solve the question: why would a higher power flood the earth?
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      Re: Missing people

      Mon, August 29, 2005 - 11:27 PM
      some numbers:
      my source is National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children aka NISMART-
      posted on www.missingkids.com

      "1999, an estimated 797,500 children were reported missing; 58,200 children were abducted by nonfamily members; 115 children were the victims of the most serious, long-term nonfamily abductions called "stereotypical kidnappings"; and 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions."

      now--note that further down in the study the return rate is 99.8% for the ones reported missing.

      now apparently there hasn't been a study in some time. And the majority of "reports" resulted in the kid being found--either they ran away or were injured or got lost in the store and then found again, what they term "Benign circumstances."
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    Re: Missing people

    Sun, January 7, 2007 - 9:38 PM
    An old lady brought this to my attention in the 80's. This is not new. You have to look at the numbers nationally. Imagine
    if one person goes missing a day in every city. That's a lot of people. They are not just children either. All of these people
    are not dead so where the heck are they??? We can all speculate on that til the cows come home but know that you could
    very easily become one of them.
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