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I would be very unhappy w/ the Iowa police dept. for messing up, I.E. finding  the car the 2 kids were in and didn't report it...You know, I'd be curious as to what bone-head made that decision not to get hold of the KCMO police dept.  I'm sure they'll get the bottom of that mess and I'm almost positive heads will roll.  But as a parent who has lost children before  and didn't know where they were, and was franic until I found them, my main concern would be that even though tired, cold and hungry, the kids ended up safe and into the arms of the parents.  No need for discpline in this case, in my opinion.  They learned a terrifying lesson. I'm so thankful they're safe and sound and unharmed.
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3gen_in_kcmo read my blog view my photos
Oct 30, 2008 | 7:25 PM

Don't give this family of these two kids any help in what was wrong in thier actions.

snapper read my blog
Oct 30, 2008 | 9:08 PM

I believe the car was found in Omaha, Nebraska-and they do have some splaining to do.

To me those kids have a whole lot of splaining to come up with. They let their family and friends go thru HELL, not to mention the money that was spent looking for those two. It would be a hard candy Christmas if one of my kids had ever done this.

Chiefs58 read my blog
Oct 31, 2008 | 10:39 AM

How did you "Lose" your kids? I know kids are defiant and sometimes run away and I'm not going to say the they shouldn't have reported it. I really don't see how it would have helped th case but whatever. I believe the parents should be focusing on themselves and where they went wrong. They should be focusing on how to prevent thier "angel" daughter from running away again instead of the Iowa police. There was already something wrong in the home to have this happen. The Iowa police didn't come to Kansas City and kidnap thier daughter. None of us know the circumstance's of them finding the vehicle, so why are you so quick to monday chair quarterback? Eveyone's innocent until proven guilty except the police. They've had thier 15 minutes of fame, it's time to move on. This really is'nt that newsworthy anymore.

2minikdz read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 10:55 AM

Fair enough, Chiefs58...you've proved theres 2 sides to the story...I'll tell you what happened w/ me. My husband and I along w/ our then 8,7,5 &4 year olds, went to Bartle Hall to the boat show. It was so crowded, it was unbelieveable. We stopped to the fish tank where my 5 year old was fasnitated w/ the fishermen. We then left the fishing area, thinking all were between my husband and I. My child was missing and we did find her but we were frantic. Almost every parent has had a simular expearence I'm pretty sure.

Chiefs58 read my blog
Oct 31, 2008 | 11:25 AM

And trust me, I wasn't trying to say your a bad parent. I reallize things happen. I have the unfortunate job of dealing with some of the worst parents in the world. But as a parent myself, I would just be so happy to get my child back and try to figure why he ran away. It's good she got back in one piece and hopefully it doesn't happen again, but trying to blame the Iowa police is just ridiculous. I'm sure the situation will be addressed by thier department. We have training on mistakes we make all the time. We're human and like I said things happen. You just got to focus on what you can do to prevent it from happening again.

originalmo_trucker read my blog
Oct 31, 2008 | 1:16 PM

I am not trying to provide an excuse for the Omaha NE PD or Nebraska Highway Patrol, but what might have happened was the kids ran out of gas, and just abandoned the car, then because of where the car was left a third party tow operator picked it up in order to "collect the bounty". (In many areas instead of the city operating a tow operation, third party companies pick up abandoned vehicles, take them to thier tow lot, send a notice to the police, and get a records check from the DOR to find out who the registered owner of the vehicle is. They then notify the owner that they have the car, and that they must come and pay all towing and storage fees by a certain date or the tow company can file a lien against the vehicle and sell it to satisfy the debt of towing and storing.) The problem might have been the time between when the tow company picked up the car and the time the police had information about where it was. If the tow was authorized by the Police or Highway Patrol someone boo-boo'ed by not recognizing the vehicle checked back on an Amber Alert.

Chiefs58 read my blog
Oct 31, 2008 | 1:33 PM

That's all I was saying. The news never reports the entire story and rarely tells the police side of it. It's hard to point fingers without knowing the whole story. If we convicted criminals with half the story, there would probably be alot of innocent people in jail.

2minikdz read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 5:24 PM

See the whole point of my blog was this..I'm happy the kids are @ home AND no! you don't hear the whole story on the news...Sometimes I think I just waste my time watching the news because they sensationalize so much.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 9:53 PM

Since when does the news get anything right?

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 10:32 PM

Anyway, I think the parents need to stop blaming the police and start looking at what is wrong in their families. I have had the opportunity to be part of many women's select few group of best friends, and it got to the point at times where they'd tell me things they would never tell their parents. Back when I was in high school (I've been this way since I was 16), I have had many women in my sophomore class tell me that they felt like running away for one of many reasons: Their parents didn't give them enough attention; their parents fought all the time; their parents are never there to talk when they need to talk or when they do talk, they never listen or they go into "when I was your age..." mode and start lecturing (teen girls HATE being lectured, and that's their primary reason for wanting to run away); Aother reason: Overprotective fathers - Teen girls hate it when the father keeps a shotgun by the front door because it makes her fear for her life because she's afraid the father will go postal and start shooting if he does anything her father doesn't approve of. And the final reason: Lack of communication about the men in their lives...Teen girls want to know if their parents don't approve of the guy and they want to know why, but they don't want to hear a lecture or be nagged about the men in their lives.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 10:44 PM

The whole thing about being a best friend more than a parent...You're better off being a best friend to your teen daughter, because the moment you try to play the overprotective parent, you will lose any trust she ever had in you and be more inclined to run away to someplace where she would have people who she can trust. It is possible to be a teen girl's best friend and still be as protective as her father (I've been there many times in my life since I was 16), and teen girls like that better - they don't like the "brute force" type of protection. Teen girls feel better if your presence is all that is needed to let the men in her life know not to do anything stupid...

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Oct 31, 2008 | 10:50 PM

For example, I often get away with pretending to be their brother when in the presence of their boyfriends...And that alone is enough to let the guy know not to do anything stupid. If that isn't enough, my typical warning is "I'm watching you. You try anything funny and I'll castrate you then make you EAT them. And no, that's not a threat - Its a promise."

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:05 AM

And if they say "I can always call the cops", I snap back with "who won't get here before I break your neck", and that often shuts them up.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:08 AM

Or, if they say "I can always call the cops", I respond with "Yeah, try going into her bedroom with a dozen uniformed officers breathing down your neck"

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:13 AM

I often say that first one to a girl's father if he threatens to call the cops on me...The average response time for most police departments is 6 minutes depending on traffic...And I only need 1 minute to kill someone. Not even that in some cases.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:15 AM

I am the type who won't wait for the police to show up...I am the type who demotes the police to clean-up duty once they do show up. In my eyes, that's their job...They never respond fast enough to do anything other than clean up the mess after the fact, so until they do, justice should be left to vigilantes.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:21 AM

I do sometimes wait for the police to show up, but only if it will be to my advantage...Such as if I'm alone with the girl and her boyfriend and her parents are nowhere in sight...Then I am more inclined to wait for the cops to show up and let them watch her boyfriend like a hawk...I know not to do anything stupid around the police, and if I feel I can get away with it, I will make the girl's boyfriend call the police, then when the police get there, I turn the tables on her boyfriend by giving the police a legitimate reason to watch both me and him like hawks until her parents come home.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:22 AM

And no, I don't try to go into the girl's bedroom while the police are there. Instead, I tell the police that the only reason her boyfriend is there is to get in bed with her...And if he tries to deny it, then I tell him to prove it.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:24 AM

If he's not willing to prove it in front of the cops, that alone is reasonable suspicion for a conspiracy charge in my eyes.

mnaines read my blog view my photos
Nov 1, 2008 | 12:28 AM

Its that kind of protection teen girls like better than a shotgun-toting brute with an itchy trigger finger.

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To forgive is to move forward. The 3 most hardest things in life are 2 trust- have faith- & forgive. Love heals. God is love.

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