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- dondara, on 05/03/2008, -7/+129"What Would You Do If You found a Missing Child?"
eBay!! - missanthrope, on 05/03/2008, -2/+111Our society has become so leery of strangers that we can't even approach a possible kidnap victim without worrying about the consequences.
- toxicityj, on 05/03/2008, -6/+96but you'd end up being accused for molesting her just for talking to her. that's how ***** up the laws are.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -3/+86I was almost attacked for talking to a little guy that seemed to be alone and lost at a mall once. Turned out his mom just made him wait outside of the store because he was acting up and that's why he looked so sad.
I just asked him if he knew where his parents were and then his mom jumps out of the store screaming at me to live him alone. Then we explained ourselves and had a laugh, but still. She was ready to attack me with keys! - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -8/+84"But on the other hand, it was nice to see there weren't a lot of men walking up to her and random strangers."
I don't understand this comment. Men can be and are just as protective as women. I would make the case even more so. Anybody tries to hurt a child under my watch and I will rip them to pieces. No woman could match my fury. I would have walked up to her and asked her if she was the girl on that picture to confirm -- if so I would have called the police; and I would have stood there until they came. If she said she wasn't I would have asked her where her parents were and not left until I got some real answers...and even then I still would have reported it.
Anyway -- it is sad that so many that did notice did nothing. Cowards -- all of them. - unknownpoltroon, on 05/03/2008, -1/+77Cowards -- all of them.
*****. They have merely learned the lesson society has taught them. If you talk to a small child, you will be accused of being a pedophile, and your life will be destroyed. Sorry, but thats teh way it is. You folks are destroying our society for the children. - SillyRabbits, on 05/03/2008, -2/+72I'm sorry, but I usually don't make a habit of intently studying little girls when I go to the mall. Just like the other adults that I walk past, I wouldn't be able to describe any of them 15 seconds later. I also never pay attention to any posted ads and I never would have noticed the one that had her listed. For some reason advertisers think just posting something means people actually read it...
- Gman1223, on 05/03/2008, -8/+73My father told me this last week:
He was at a convince store sitting in the car waiting for my mother to come out, next to him, two girls little girls started playing, this women and two men pull up on the other side of the lot in a jeep, the women runs over and says "What the ***** are you doing next to these two girls alone" My father (who is an older man) replies in a nice tone (My wife is just grabbing something in the store, why do you want to know?) She replies with (Because I'm the ***** cop), my dad then replied with (Oh yeah? show me your badge then?)
She then proceeded to call him a dirty pervert mother ***** and such and stuck her face into the car window, she then stomps off into the store muttering ***** you, about a minute later, my mother comes out of the store worried and said that a women just ran into the store and asked if the man in the Grey car was her husband, my dad got up and walked over to the jeep with the two men and started screaming and shouting at them (she was hiding in the store), my dad in his old age is still 6.4ft and 280LB the two guys cowered and replied with "we're really sorry sir, shes drunk, and she gets really mouthy when she is drunk" He then started walking towards the store to go and confront her about hassling my mother, but my mom talked him out of it and left.
Why did I post this story? Because it proves what most people are like nowadays when it comes to men being around children. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -3/+64I'm a 35 year old guy, and I was at a mall a few months ago and was getting three or four different flavor gumballs from one of those displays where they have 50 machines all in a row.
I popped a gumball in my mouth and heard this 3-ish year old kid behind me start screaming and crying. His mother was standing right next to him and got up in my face and said "How dare you buy all that in front of my son, you know he can't have candy"
I just stood there, shocked at her insanity for a few seconds. Luckily there were a bunch of people (witnesses) around us watching the spectacle so I didn't worry about her reporting me to the police for whatever craziness was in her mind.
I calmly told her that she must have mistaken me for someone else, and that I was quite sure it was perfectly legal for me to buy candy from this mall's gumball machines no matter if your kid is watching me or not. I asked her if she would like to go find mall security and complain to them.
She was in a COMPLETE rage after that. I mean she looked like she was going to attack me with mace or claw my eyes out at any second, and I'm 6'5" while was about 5'0".
Trust me, as a male I will never approach any child that isn't a niece or nephew of mine, EVER. The costs from society and and insane parents is just too high. Sorry if that means your kid gets lost or kidnapped, but I'm not going to labeled a pedo to help. - hmunkey, on 05/03/2008, -4/+63Especially if you're an adult male helping a young girl. You can get sued and prosecuted, even if all you did was help her find her mom (who coincidentally was dumb enough to lose her daughter).
- LuckyASN, on 05/03/2008, -1/+54I work as an EMT. If I was in the same situation, I would stand from a distance and call 911 and wouldn't approach the kid. The only way I would, would be if I was in uniform and had my partner there.
Hell in this day and age, I don't even like taking a kid to the hospital alone in the back of the rig (ambulance). I insist that a parent, family member, legal guardian, etc, go with us for legal reasons and for fear of being accused of molesting said kid. Now how ***** up crazy is that!? - absurdist, on 05/03/2008, -3/+51Brilliant. Because women, of course, NEVER abuse or molest kids.
/s - Kahnza, on 05/03/2008, -7/+49I have free candy!
- SSUK, on 05/03/2008, -4/+43*****, KEYS!? That bitch is crazy!
- DangerCollie, on 05/03/2008, -2/+36There's just too much potential risk dealing with kids, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to get involved. Makes me wonder how many people have passed on a teaching career because they don't want to take the risk of being accused of doing something inappropriate or undergo the anal probe background check that's required these days. And yet all that process doesn't seem to stop the real predators. They'll find a way to slip through. It's really messed up.
- BeefBaron, on 05/03/2008, -3/+37I'd be worried Chris Hansen was standing just around the corner, readying to ask me to take a seat.
- DangerCollie, on 05/03/2008, -1/+35I might call the police, but I'd do it from a distance. They did the same type of thing on the local news. Staged some kid sitting in the park crying. Adults went out of their way to avoid talking to her and I would have done the same thing. We've gotten so silly with enforcement that no rational person is going to risk getting involved. I didn't pass the laws, I just live here.
We had a similar situation at a fire dept. training class one time. The instructors spend 45 minutes outlining our potential liability and threatening to call the cops if any equipment came up missing. Well, it worked. We got up and left along with members of three other departments. The instructors acted surprised. Well, duh. Threaten people enough and even the honest ones will opt out. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -1/+35Once I was travelling by train, and a little girl (~ 4 years old) came to me, her pants in her hands. She was on the toilet and couldn't find the wagon her mum was in. She stood there, crying, half naked, and I have to admit, it was horrible, because I didn't know what to do. I kept an eye on her and yelled for her mum. And I was scared to death they will blame me for whatever...
- jeffyhunter, on 05/03/2008, -1/+34I'm a 4th year medical student (male) about to graduate and enter a pediatrics residency. While I am excited about my career choice (It's impossible not to smile when you're around little kids every day) I am absolutely terrified about the child-abuse witch hunts we have in this country. Abuse does exist - I personally see the horrors of it in the hospital. But by the media pandering to our fears, led by programs like Dateline and the CNN nonsense we've become this frenzy of hysteria. I know that all it will take for anyone to utterly ruin my career is one allegation of impropriety by any crazy mother or mentally unstable teenager. Our culture, fueled by the media, has come to see men as violent, sex-crazed perverts drooling over children and teenagers. As a man, I'm sick and tired of being guilty of lechery by assumption.
All of this craziness has led to a culture of paranoia in the medical field. I can't imagine seeing a female patient without a nurse there - not to make the patient feel more comfortable, but to protect me in case of false allegations. Such is the culture we live in now. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+33Just ignore him/her, since because of all the hype in the media this day approaching him would make everyone think "ZOMG PEDO!!!1".
- cerealman, on 05/03/2008, -1/+31There are different degrees of blindness, not that you would know this at the time.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -9/+37Work on your story telling technique.
- Pixelante, on 05/03/2008, -4/+31There's a simple way out of the predicament: douse someone near by with flammable liquid and set them on fire. Then scream "man on fire! man on fire! HELP!" and when the police, fire department, paramedics, marines and al come around to extinguish the fire and carry away the charred remains, point at the child and causally say "by the way, could you check on that kid? Saw him/her playing with matches."
That's the way you do it. - Gman1223, on 05/03/2008, -0/+26I will, I'm not much of a story teller ;)
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 05/03/2008, -4/+29Our laws are not reasonable and many in law enforcement aren't either.
- honesttussey, on 05/03/2008, -1/+25Of course...I look down and what do I see local6.com, one of our local news channels. ***** figures it's Florida. again. 50% of the time I see a story and I think "oh man that's really dumb" then I check the source and OF COURSE it's my state. Why is everyone in Florida so friggin stupid?
"I didn't want to go tell the police and it not be her," shopper Jose Adorno said. Are you ***** KIDDING ME?! - mrogi, on 05/03/2008, -4/+28If you are a man and you see some random abandoned kid...keep walking. It could be an extortion scam set up by the mother using the child as bait. Any contact with a child you do not know automatically exposes you to charges of pedophilia. You might be 100% innocent and simply being a good Samaritan; but the instant you are accused of child molestation it equates to a conviction. It is an indelible stain on your reputation you will carry the rest of your life even if you get exonerated in the eyes of the law.
- EPICFAILURE, on 05/03/2008, -16/+39Internet Tough Guy
- zgoos, on 05/03/2008, -1/+24Cowards? They just didn't want to end up like this guy.
http://digg.com/people/Arrested_for_being_creepy - takamalak, on 05/03/2008, -5/+28Women, never ever steal kids. Nope, saints, all of them.
- matthewjhughes, on 05/03/2008, -3/+26Does anybody want to see my puppy? Come into my white, unmarked van little girl!
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -0/+23Well he wasn't alone, he just looked like he was. His mom was right there on the edge of the store, she jumped at me before the kid could answer the question.
- camilos007, on 05/03/2008, -2/+25If I'm with the wife, I help the child. If I'm alone, I run away.
- selfdisplaced, on 05/03/2008, -0/+22I'd be afraid of Chris Hansen popping out with a camera crew.
- omueller, on 05/03/2008, -0/+22Is this a trick question?
- Gman1223, on 05/03/2008, -1/+22Yes, I saw the mistakes after it was too late to edit it, I've been up for 18 hours and I'm not at my best right now. would you like me to rewrite the story just to please you?
- iticu, on 05/03/2008, -2/+23Yeah, that quote anoyed me.
If a guy helped that girl instead of a lady he probably would have assumed the guy was molesting her.
Society sucks. - redcolumbine, on 05/03/2008, -1/+21This culture is so reactive about children that anything you do - even saying hello to a familiar neighbor's child - can get you hauled into court if, say, you look like you have money or that neighbor doesn't like your dog. It's a big gamble.
- flaire, on 05/03/2008, -1/+21Personally, if I were to see that child, I would either call security and stand back or if I was with someone else, approach the child, call security and be done with it.
There was a day when I would have had no qualms about approaching the child and walking him or her to the security desk, but given that I'm a male and also of Pakistani descent, who knows what someone might assume? Perhaps they would suspect some elaborate terrorist plot or something equally ludicrous .
A lot may be assumed based purely on physical appearance and many people in this country are very suspicious of people who they think could have ever even spoken to anyone of middle-eastern heritage.
So for me, it's both a matter of being a man, as well as my race. - Firehed, on 05/03/2008, -2/+21That's a surprisingly legitimate concern these days, which is one of the massive flaws with that kind of show. It may weed out some of the creeps (and seems to do so, even if they're only the ones who peed in the IQ pool), but it also generates tons of senseless fear around good activities like helping a lost child.
- BradBrown, on 05/03/2008, -2/+20Reminds me of when I was a kid. Mom and I went to Service Merchandise, a now defunct store - similar to Target but all products were retrieved by conveyor belt (props to them for being futuristic). I was hanging out in sporting goods when I was approached by an old man. He said "Son, I'm blind. Would you mind helping me find the crystal-ware section?" Of course, it didn't occur to me to ask how he knew I was there if he was that blind. Within 5 seconds, Mom's radar went off and she came over and grabbed me. Good times...
- reddoggie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+18I read everything around me. I can't help it. It's not like I even make a conscious decision to do so most of the time. If there is text in front of me, I will read it. I wouldn't slow down to read too much detail, but in passing through the door of the mall I would definitely get "Missing Child" and a look at the photo. Whether or not her face/appearance stuck in my head would be another matter entirely.
- Suricou, on 05/03/2008, -0/+18I used to work as a technician in a school. I once pushed a pupil's hand away from the controls of a projector he was fiddling with, and had to write up a formal incident statement and undergo an investigation for assault after he claims I hit him. The claim was droped after it emerged that in a room of thirty pupils and six members of staff, not a single person had seen him hit him.
- displacednomad, on 05/03/2008, -0/+18Yeah, you see... the problem with your request is that I don't spend my life determining whether every person that I see is a missing child or not. I work in a big box store; I don't check to see if every kid has a parent in the vicinity; only if they look lost or are looking intently for someone do I bother.
Don't even get me started at the mall. It's the new free daycare for rich parents (my local mall is ritzier, so are the kids who mull about there). Hate to say it, but there are too many people in the world now, and a declining sense of community. I'll do what I can, but I make no promises either. - musicbear, on 05/03/2008, -1/+19oh its not... just being able to tell a 17 year old employee of mine that she had to be sure her pants were hitched up all the way (low riding pants being the fashion they are) meant me, another female manager and a public place in order to tell her that. It's more than a legitimate fear... misplaced? out of control? maybe, but still legitimate.
- marx2k, on 05/03/2008, -1/+19This doesn't only have to do with kids, either. At this point, everyone in American society (I'm not sure about other countries) are trained from childhood to never trust anyone, never talk to anyone you don't know. The result is people no longer offer help to stranded motorists because everyone else thinks the motorist is a deranged psychopath. No one helps little kids because of the repercussions from ***** overprotective parents. No one does anything for anyone else for fear of getting sued. And then you've got shows like "To Catch A Predator" that further hammers in the fear.
- utore, on 05/03/2008, -1/+19It's entirely true. It's dangerous to be a man and try to help a supposedly lost child. With all the stories in news about men supposedly molesting children based on the child's testimony only, it makes me leery of even approaching a child.I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because yes there are sick mfers in the world, but it's something I would report to mall security as I'm not even going to risk it.
- coolmanmax2000, on 05/03/2008, -2/+19I needed 18 stitches under my right eye thanks to a key attack
- yellowfish04, on 05/03/2008, -0/+17I'll defend Gman1223 here. One time I was at an airport with my girlfriend standing in the Lost Baggage line - everyone on our flight was without our luggage, so it was pretty long. A dad and his son (about 7 years old) were standing right in front of us. The son was holding a few papers for the dad and accidentally dropped them. My girlfriend was closer and bent down to help pick up. The dad then proceeded to give her this horrible look, boxed her out basketball-style, and YANKED from my girlfriend's hands the one piece of paper she had already picked up. He then grabbed his son and moved him closer to him (away from my girlfriend).
Now, me and my girlfriend were 22 at the time. 22! And my girlfriend is a cute, innocent looking girl (in fact you can see both of us in my profile picture). I was so disgusted, my girlfriend had to fight with me to keep me from making a scene. - toxicityj, on 05/03/2008, -1/+18It's not missing anymore if I've found it.
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