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I find it a little weird how somebody would be tweeting while their home is supposedly being broken into. (I know it was a hoax, but still). I mean, your first priority should be finding a way to get out of there, not telling everybody about it.
But then again, maybe the fact that it's on the Internet means one of your friends will see it and call the police, in case you can't call for some reason (because the intruder would hear the operator speaking)
I find it a little weird how somebody would be tweeting while their home is supposedly being broken into. (I know it was a hoax, but still). I mean, your first priority should be finding a way to get out of there, not telling everybody about it.
I hope and pray that this young woman is safe, but at the same time we have to remember that adolescents running away is not a new phenomenon, and will likely always exist. The only new part of this age-old saga is the high-tech method of transmitting a (bogus) good-bye message.
As Paul McCartney wrote, many years ago:
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.
Bye, bye
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband, Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me?
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.
Bye, bye
Friday morning at nine o'clock, she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always denied for so many years.
I hope and pray that this young woman is safe, but at the same time we have to remember that adolescents running away is not a new phenomenon, and will likely always exist. The only new part of this age-old saga is the high-tech method of transmitting a (bogus) good-bye message.
I'm not the one who transformed this situation into a major story.
What transformed this into a story that grew all out of proportion to its actual importance was the hoax component of it--which was not originally recognized as a hoax.
When, in the earliest stages of the case, it appeared that somebody might have broken into the family home and possibly abducted the girl, it grabbed both the fears and the imagination of people who were apparently glomming onto the Twitter posting.
If the girl had run away in a more "conventional" manner, then this would likely have never made it onto front pages here and around the nation. And, if people did not spend so much time focusing on e-information that is frequently just time-wasting nonsense, this would have been just your garden-variety teenage runaway case.
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I did. Thank you for the update.
