[ngrome]

Originally Posted by Pooring Footers

Ok, forget about Caylee as an "abduction." What about all the others? How is 4 in the last 15 yrs in FL even remotely possible (look at the 5 or so I listed off the top of my head)? These all made national news, so it wasnt like it wsa only on local news and it only seems like it happens more in FL because I live here and see the local news.

And speaking of Nancy Grace, when was the last time she was covering an attempted abduction case, and the case wasnt in FL?

From another post in the "Another mysterious abduction in Florida" thread:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

New York has 78

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Texas has 143

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

California has 221


Florida has 275.

That's sad. Numbers tell it all. Also, parents need to keep a close watch of their kids. Except maybe until high school age, no kid should be left alone at their bus stops. An 11 year old girl was in Orlando and she was kidnapped, taken to an empty house, and well...I don't like saying that word...and then she was brought back right at the stop afterwards. Sad and scary.

It's also sad that the highway system devotes part of its electronic signs for amber alerts when kids are taken, and even silver alerts (I guess for older people?), and I see those alerts more and more rather than just the travel times to the airport. Wonder if it'll get to a point when people won't start paying attention to those with the frequency they happen.

[Margel]

It is not just Florida, it is everywhere. People can't go on vacation without keeping close tabs on their kids. How many have we heard about overseas? It is not a safe world, sad, but true. You have to be a vigilant parent, period.

[Pooring Footers]

Originally Posted by ngrome

That's sad. Numbers tell it all. Also, parents need to keep a close watch of their kids. Except maybe until high school age, no kid should be left alone at their bus stops. An 11 year old girl was in Orlando and she was kidnapped, taken to an empty house, and well...I don't like saying that word...and then she was brought back right at the stop afterwards. Sad and scary.

It's also sad that the highway system devotes part of its electronic signs for amber alerts when kids are taken, and even silver alerts (I guess for older people?), and I see those alerts more and more rather than just the travel times to the airport. Wonder if it'll get to a point when people won't start paying attention to those with the frequency they happen.

Yup, those 2 hispanic men in Orlando were caught! Thank God! And they'll be in prison for a looooong time!

Also, speaking about that "silver alert" thing, I see it a lot in Orlando, at one point it was like a couple times a week it seems.

[Pooring Footers]

"It is not just Florida, it is everywhere."

You are absolutely right, it is everywhere. But, what I am saying and have observed, and what the stats show (located on previous page) is that it happens in FL more. And that is very scary.

[markhunt]

Originally Posted by Pooring Footers

"It is not just Florida, it is everywhere."

You are absolutely right, it is everywhere. But, what I am saying and have observed, and what the stats show (located on previous page) is that it happens in FL more. And that is very scary.

Agreed.

I am amazed at how often I hear that statement with not only people on this board, but in public here as well. It's like back in elementary school when someone would get in trouble by the teacher and the kid would say, "But Tommy and Mary did it too", (as if that would make it OK).


But to play along anyway, I agree, child abductions can happen in any state. However having kids of my own now, the RATE at which these things happen would be a factor for me when choosing a state to permanently settle down.

[doggiebus]

Originally Posted by ngrome

From another post in the "Another mysterious abduction in Florida" thread:
New York has 78

Texas has 143

California has 221

Florida has 275.

I tell you this most of my friends with children, not all, have left Florida to raise their children in safer places in their opinion. One friend said to me, I want my son to be able to ride his bike outside in the street, or be able to ride his bike to school. She said here in florida she couldn't let her son ride his bike to school and forget about letting your child ride their bike in the neighborhood with a parent around.

Like someone else already said Florida is a place to come if you want to be left alone by authorities. And so this is one reason why we have so many transient people.

[Pooring Footers]

Originally Posted by doggiebus

I tell you this most of my friends with children, not all, have left Florida to raise their children in safer places in their opinion. One friend said to me, I want my son to be able to ride his bike outside in the street, or be able to ride his bike to school. She said here in florida she couldn't let her son ride his bike to school and forget about letting your child ride their bike in the neighborhood with a parent around.

Like someone else already said Florida is a place to come if you want to be left alone by authorities. And so this is one reason why we have so many transient people.

Unfortunately, your right. And it really sucks for the good folks that live here that have to worry about this stuff. FL attracts a lot of criminals, sex offenders, and malcontents, and it keeps a lot of good people from moving here, it makes a lot of good folks that have lived here for yrs leave, and the ones that you want to leave, will not leave.

[The Floridian]

Ohhh YES!

It's horrible down here in Florida!!! JUST TERRIBLE!!! DANGEROUS!!!

Child Killers every street corner just waiting for their next little victim! Please, open your eyes, pack that heat and don't let your guard down!

Wear body armour and pepper spray, and pack that Desert Eagle in your big bullet-proof vest!

Oh, and don't forget to bring money, you need to rent right? A place to sleep? ( bring $$$$ ).

[Banx]

Let's not forget the guy at the Boca Raton mall last year (year before last?) who shot a blonde hair lady and her 3 year old daughter outside in the parking lot. That's why u got patrol cars and dudes in cherry pickers swarming out in the mall parking lot these days. The guy was never caught and got away with it.

[Pooring Footers]

Originally Posted by The Floridian

Ohhh YES!

It's horrible down here in Florida!!! JUST TERRIBLE!!! DANGEROUS!!!

Child Killers every street corner just waiting for their next little victim! Please, open your eyes, pack that heat and don't let your guard down!

Wear body armour and pepper spray, and pack that Desert Eagle in your big bullet-proof vest!

Oh, and don't forget to bring money, you need to rent right? A place to sleep? ( bring $$$$ ).

Nobody said it's dangerous everywhere and that there are child killers on every corner. We are saying that it is scary at how often it happens in FL. Show me another state, within the last 5 yrs, that has had more abductions.