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Don't need help looking for a missing person

  • 18-10-2015 3:39am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28


    I apologise for the buzz feed title to drag you in here. It's just that once again I've come across an article on a reputable Irish website for a missing teenager. Of course a missing person is a serious thing but I've often seen appeals for the same missing delinquent three or four times. It lessens the impact for when we really need an appeal and to put it bluntly these teens who repeatedly run away and cause a fuss need a kick up the hole. I don't know who to blame.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    If that's what's going on then it's most likely depression, and it's attitudes like that of the OP which make it worse for such people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Did you try looking the person up? It may well be an old message that went out that's recycled a few times. Facebook is awful for that in particular, although I don't know what your "reputable Irish site" is.


    That aside, you don't actually run out of chances on that. A missing person is a missing person, and dismissing them as "just some delinquent" is the sort of attitude that, if the police take it, end up with people dead. Maybe a runaway, may be they have something to run away from.

    Mneh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    Attention seeking manifests iself in many forms, even starting threads with misleading titles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Okay I don't know the answer so I'm going to guess 112.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OP, you need help is you think this was worth starting a thread about this at 4am. Don't try to second guess what's going on in somebody else's life.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Instead of calling them delinquents and saying they need a kick up the hole, have you thought that maybe their home life is that bad that they'd rather sleep rough?

    It could very easily be that there's abuse in the home.

    If it IS attention seeking, the kids need help because that's beyond normal realms of attention seeking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    This is not 'Boy crying wolf', its real life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    My local SuperValu had a missing rabbit poster up, nolonger there now though, so I hope the rabbit was found safe and well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    My local SuperValu had a missing rabbit poster up, nolonger there now though, so I hope the rabbit was found safe and well.

    I was wondering were that rabbit curry range came from


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