College Kids Can Be Easy Prey for Abductors

[rpannier]

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The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen set up a hidden camera experiment near two college campuses: the Ivy League's Princeton and John Jay College, where students study criminal justice. She found that many of the students made unsafe decisions.

A Princeton, Ken Wooden, a child safety expert, pretended to be a modeling agent looking for young faces to star in a commercial. He told students that they needed to get in his van for their screen test "for sound purposes."

One male and one female student got right into the van, even though both said they felt strange about it.

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It would have been easy to abduct any of these kids if they were tied up. For his next lure, Wooden told a student that if he gets in the van, he'll be a part of a reality show. The catch is that his hands need to be duct-taped together. He lets Wooden do it.


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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Goes to show that these kids who trusted the wrong people

are just older versions of the five year olds who follow strangers out of a park to look for an alleged lost puppy. When will they learn?

[UTUSN]

2. College "kids" are 18 yrs old, no?

Given that MATURITY does not equate with AGE/YRS, the FOLEY thing has exposed a lot of fuzzy thinking in the media. They have been equating CLINTON-LEWINSKY with FOLEY.

There has to be a legal line drawn somewhere, and in most places it is at age 18. LEWINSKY was TWENTY FOUR, a consenting adult. I certainly consider her to be a VERY IMMATURE 24, but then, so was Bill an IMMATURE 50-something--------and both of them SELFISH to boot.

But FOLEY's case is of a PREDATOR of MINORS. The media has a weird vocabulary: If a teen is a sniper, he is a MAN. If she is Monica, she is CHILDLIKE.

[ComerPerro]

3. Whenever I see studies or reports complaining about this generation

all I can do is BLAME THE BABY-BOOMER PARENTS.


Interesting that the same group of people who bitches about this generation nonstop and talks about how they were so much better and smarter in their day are the very generation that raised this one to be (apparently) so fucking stupid...

[noonwitch]

4. Lure them with beer and pizza, it never fails

College is where girls, in particular, learn some hard lessons about trusting people.

I was lucky-my friends and I always took turns being the designated driver, so someone was always sober enough to pull another out of a bad situation at a party.

Here's the one I didn't fall for:

A bunch of us from my dorm were walking back to campus from apartment parties. A footbridge over Howard Street separated campus from the neighborhood. When we were walking over the bridge, one of the guys got up on the ledge and said he was going to jump. The rest of the group went on, but I, having lost a friend in high school to suicide, couldn't bear to leave him. He told me he wouldn't jump if I'd have sex with him. I told him I would, got him back to his dorm room, then left. As I was leaving, he yelled out "I thought you were going to f*$# me?!". I told him I lied. I heard several varieties of the term "bitch" yelled out as I walked back to the girl's part of the dorm.

[ComerPerro]

5. Ahh, that old trick