MISSING CHILD, PLEASE LOOK

Tammie

I got this in my e-mail from a friend. Passing along the information to you all.

Please pass this to everyone in your address book.
To All:
We have a store manager from Longs, S C who has a9 year old daughter that has been
missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her
side she will be found. - Peggy I am asking you all, begging you to please, forward this email
onto anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE. My 9 year old girl,
Penny Brown, is missing. She has been missing for now two weeks.
It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone anywhere
knows anything, sees anything, please contact me at
mailto:[email protected]I am including a picture of her.
All prayers are appreciated!! It only takes 2 seconds to forward
this on, if it was your child, you would want all the help you
could get.
Please.
Thank you for your kindness, hopefully you can help us.

Edited by - Tammie on 27 June 2002 17:35:1

LDH

HOAX but you didn't know that ,Tammie.

Edited by - LDH on 27 June 2002 17:39:27

Nathan Natas

Thanks Lisa!

I was almost convinced I found Penny Brown in a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew.

What a relief!

MMmmm! Good Stew!

Whose shoes are these?

Edited by - Nathan Natas on 27 June 2002 17:42:25

Dawn

Go to www.missingkids.org - you can view photos of missing kids from your area, or volunteer as a poster partner. If you volunteer, they will e-mail you 8x10 size posters to print out and distribute - I get about 10 a week.

Simon

Thanks Dawn

I did run the Java banner on the bottom of this site for a while but to be honest it upset me too much seeing the picture of the kids ... especially ones near my kids ages.

Perhaps I should put them back though ... I wonder if it really helps though? Does anyone know?

Tammie

Thanks for letting me know. Now I am going to have to give my friend a very hard time for that stunt. I really don't like it when people pull my leg when it involves children. My eldest went missing for about 20 minutes when he was about 2 years old. Talking about a frantict feeling. Actually I don't know if she knew it was a hoax or not. But I will pass the info on to her, what you showed me. And again thank you. I did not know.

amac

She probably didn't know it was a hoax as these emails get passed around the internet a lot. People's first inclination is to believe something like this, after all why on earth would anyone make a hoax about this (it is baffling.)

Billygoat

Most of the time people don't realize it's a hoax themselves. I've forwarded so many things in an attempt to help someone. Only to realize it was a crock to begin with. I guess I'd rather be a little gullible than ignore a person in need though.

Here are a few websites that come in really handy. I've kept them on my favorites list - I refer to them pretty regularly.

www.snopes.com

www.urbanlegends.com

They are pretty up to date.

Andi

Dawn

I did run the Java banner on the bottom of this site for a while but to be honest it upset me too much seeing the picture of the kids ... especially ones near my kids ages.

I agree!! I spent a number of years working on criminal cases for the Prosecutor's Office - I HATED those cases involving kids. It hits way too close to home when you have little ones.

Perhaps I should put them back though ... I wonder if it really helps though? Does anyone know?

I get about 4-5 notices a month from the missing children's network of children that have been found. But I don't know how many are from the posters or pictures. However, if my child was missing I would want to plaster their picture anywhere I could. It's one way we can show our support for children in need.

Simon

The sad thing is that hoaxes like this detract from the *real* genuine cases.

I have only ever 'lost' one of ours for a minute or so ina shopping center (when you look one way and look back and they have darted somewhere else). It is a heart stopping moment and I can only imagine the anguish that a missing child would bring.

Is there anywhere to find whether web-campaigns like this are effective (I guess I should have a better look at the web-site eh?)

MISSING CHILD, PLEASE LOOK

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