That’s sus.
More recently, Harmel gave the victim a new phone without cellular data. However, the teenager was able to connect to Wi-Fi via the phone and used it to access the online game Among Us. The victim then seemingly used Among Us’ in-game chat function to contact another teenager in a lobby. The two exchanged social media details
Please, teach your kids how to email the cops.
Don’t all phones can call 911 even without a sim card?
They may not have been in range of any towers. I’m not and i don’t live in rural Oregon.
Yeah, most phones can call 112 or 911 without a SIM card, but apparently some networks still block them which is more than a little fucked up.
I’m teaching my kid that cops are dangerous and they should avoid them unless there is no other choice.
Welp. I feel like being locked in a basement is one of those “no other choice” situations.
Kidnappers adore you.
That’s why he already said he’s teaching his kids about avoiding the cops. ICE and other LEO’s abduct people all the time, quite often extrajudiciously.
Non cop kidnappers arguably might do it less but are inarguably less successful at it than LEO’s.
But ICE comes for you because you are on a list, not because you trustingly followed someone to their car or something. They hunt you; they don’t lure you. It doesn’t matter if you trust or distrust them; the result will be the same.
- You don’t have to be on a list for ICE to predate. Most of the children weren’t on lists. Most of the dead parents weren’t, either.
- I don’t understand what your trust remarks have to do with predators, but the important thing is don’t trust LEO’s
I was thinking the same thing, how does she have access to Among Us and able to exchange social media contacts but not able to someway contact the police directly?
Yeah, my old phone has no sim but still has 911 capabilities. It even scrolls the message “No SIM card - emergency calls only” across the top of the phone. I think it might be the law here, all phones whether cell enabled or not have 911 access.
I was watching a movie the other day and it got me wondering… How do the movie sets prevent cell phones from actually dialing 911 when the actor needs to call them in the script.
For 911 calls, and most calls actually, they almost never show the screen of the phone being dialled anyway. They just show the actor tapping at the phone vaguely while the camera shows them from the side or the back with an intense expression, and then suddenly they hold it up to their ear and then they act like they’re talking to 911.
And if for some reason they really do have to show the screen, they will just use a non-functional phone with a fake app or graphical effects in post-production, the same way they make ghosts and dragons appear and spaceships come crashing out of the sky, etc. A phone screen is a trivial effort to fake.
I can’t remember which show I was watching last night (tried a few of them and gave up on all cause everything is seemingly terrible nowadays).
But I commented because that thought specifically camemto mind since I watched them dial 911 exactly on the screen and press the green dial button and see the screen switch to “calling 911” or whatever it does which is what triggered my question.
Fake phone app that looks exactly the same. Or literally just a video. Or even just visual effects, with the phone being a green screen.
They could just not show them pushing the buttons. Just go “beep boop boop” “hello 911 what is your emergency”
Movie Magic
maybe that was too obvious to her captor and maybe a game flew under the psycho’s radar, giving just enough cover and time to ask for help
Subject: Kidnapping!
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a kidnapping that has me held on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions that I may assist in clarifying for you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Best regards,
URGENT: Kidnapping!! ‼️
xXroblocks_masterXx@gmail.com has requested a read receipt.
I mean, he had internet. He probably could have googled how to email them.
Did you even read the bloody article? It clearly says she.
I’m old and I didn’t know you could email cops. lmfao
Fuck the police, need other organization to contact. The police won’t help, more likely to help kidnappers or shoot the victim.
I am waiting for your clear suggestions who you would contact instead.
imagine being a player in a game lobby and some random other player says this to you. even just imagining it is sobering.
good on the other player for stepping up.
My first instinct would be that someone tries to scam me. This is a reminder to myself and everyone else, that we should take help request seriously.
help, I’m stuck at the airport, I just need 400Euros to go home and I’ll be able to give your money back, here’s my bitcoin wallet
stuck at the airport
Step sister, is that you?
The victim is from Utah, rescued in Oregon. It sounds like something from a third-world country, but it happens everywhere.
Nah, it being in the us is not surprising.
I mean, pretty sure the US shouldn’t be considered first world anymore. So you’re still right.
USA is first world by definition, regardless of what happened it can only ever be first world because the USA, is by definition first world.
Whose fucking definition?
It’s really hilarious how they create arbitrary “definitions” for themselves and pick and choose when and how to use them.
Have to put down people of developing countries? yea, you’re from third world country. It’s suddenly about standard of life, civic sense, and freedom.
Falls to fascism like it’s just another weekend and lets police run like brown shirts, does very little when they build concentration camps and climate choking machines, now the condition for “first world” switches to “we’re still ‘first world’ because we defined it”
Fuck right off with your made up definitions. You can self assign yourself whatever the fuck you want, doesn’t mean rest of the world has to adhere by your “definition”.
By its literal definition. First world describes the US and its allies, the second world described the Soviet bloc, and the third world is everyone else/the non-aligned nations.
Stable economy, and high standard of living are missing dude.
That’s not the definition of first world… Switzerland is a third world country by definition
“First world” was a Cold War era term, where “first world” is America-aligned nations (so by definition, that would include the U.S.), “second world” was Soviet-sligned (no longer really in use since the Soviets no longer exist), and third world was everybody who didn’t pick a side (so China after Sino-Soviet split, India, Brazil, etc.)
Most organisations use the more neutral terms “developed” and “developing”, and the U.S. is definitely a developed nation (there are less binary terms that economists and such use to categorise even further that you could look into, just check the organisation who runs it since many can be biased towards certain things compared to others)
Cuz Murica numba one!
The us made up first and third world. It’s the definition of first world country.
Stable economy, and high standard of living is missing, so they made it up, but they sure don’t met the bar anymore.
“First world” just mean the states that were America-aligned (so by definition, the U.S. goes here).
The “world” term is stupid and nobody should use it anymore (it implies that “third world” countries are lesser than America’s allies)
Developing / developed economies is what more people use nowadays, and the U.S. would be classified as developed, though a binary is still not too helpful given there are lots of in-betweeens (the big elephant in the room, China, argues it should remain classified as a developing nation because, as it turns out, there is wealth inequality there too + billionaires taking too much of the pie, so a large chunk of people still live under conditions closer to developing countries, while others say that China should be a developed nation given they have the second strongest economy)
FYI, “third world” is culturally insensitive, if not racist. Hell, even “developing countries” is ethnocentric at its core. Of course, “historically exploited, oppressed, exsanguinated nations” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. 😅
And, yeah, after volunteering w/ anti-trafficking orgs in the PacNW, I learned that NE OR is a notorious crossover for that and worse.
Vast tracts of wild foothills, deep gorges, alpine mountains, dense forests, geolithic scatter, et al, are a added obstacular layers to justice groups.
For example, The Hunted was not unrealistic in its depiction. Meek’s Cutoff, Leave No Trace, Pig, and even the classic Stand By Me are right up there, too. (FWIW, Wild is a honorable mention for showcasing the diverse, and largely untouched backcountry along the PCT) 🤘🏼
Nor does third world country even mean “developing countries” or “historically exploited, oppressed, exsanguinated nations” it means not US or Soviet aligned but it seems everyone has forgot that.
The US can’t stop being a first world country because the entire definition of first world country is US aligned. (unless the russians completely take over the US at which point they would be second world i guess?)
Edit: Unless you mean the maoist sense, then third world does mean “historically exploited, oppressed, exsanguinated nations”, but in that definition the US would still not be part of the third world.
I mean, that’s only if you choose to continue to use the US only defintion. Part of language is it evolving, the words usage has changed.
It now, no longer meets the bars of “stable economy” and “high standard of living”.
But sure, continue to use an antiquated definiton.
Anytime I see “language is always evolving” it’s always to excuse someone using language wrong
Evolution is “god be with you” turning into goodbye, not redefining a word to fit your definition instead 😭
I never said or even implied that the US (and all/any others who use[d] it) would qualify for the term, FWIW.
My second paragraph wasn’t meant to imply you said it was meant to talk about the term and how its used like how plantfanatic did.
Oops, sorry. Thanks for that. 🖖🏼
Most of the time “Global South” adequately covers it.
As someone from developing country, i’d rather be called that than Global South, because it imply that the southern countries are all underdeveloped while northern country are developed. Which kinda mean Austrailia, New Zealand, and Singapore are all underdeveloped country. Inaccurate as heck, but not as bad as saying first and third world.
Just another step on the euphemism treadmill honestly. And less accurate. Idk what’s wrong with saying a country is developing or undeveloped, its much less ambiguous than global south or third world, when 99% of the time what youre trying to say is that the country lacks infrastructure, economic development, and law and order.
Imo “Global South” is actually the most problematic of the three because it implies that a country is undeveloped because of its geographic position. I.e. the implication is “if you’re south of the equator, your country sucks.” Any nation can move from undeveloped to developing or developing to developed, but you can’t move your physical location on the map.
Yeah “developing country” is probably best. Being American, “Global South” always reminds me of the southern US, which if it were independent would also be considered a developing country.
For those in/from the US, perhaps. 😅
This is essentially how the Turpin family was discovered in 2018. One of the girls made friends online (on YouTube singing at first, I think) and it led to her eventually escaping and getting to a cop.
That was in Perris, California; north of San Diego.
The article says they just went through a window and called 911
So the kidnapping happened in Utah, they were found in Oregon, but the kidnapper is being tried in Idaho? Where does Idaho fit into the crime?
Ontario, OR, where the kidnapper was arrested, is right on the idaho border. I dunno exactly why it’s being tried in boise but maybe he’s still listed as resident there or some such?
Northeast OR is basically idaho, culturally and politically, it’s likely he had some kinda connections that stretched across the border.
Much like ivy, etc. in public wildernesses, NE Oregon’s bigoted “culture” is an invasive, parasitic blight that has (so far) defied effective, impactful cleanup efforts. 🫤
edit: clarity
I try to avoid denigrating cultures that are not my own.
Good! 🤩
Thankfully, it was “my own” back when, and I was avidly part of said removal efforts. Anecdotal, sure, but first-hand. ✊🏼
Also, I fixed it, thanks!
Dude what the fuck. This motherfucker needs to be strung up and hacked apart alive.
Jesus fucking Christ humans what the fuck
Do you wanna livestream it too?
Can you make a martyr out of a pedophile? If not, then sure. Pay per view and give the money to the victim. People who rape are the worst people. Worse then murderers. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who does the worst thing you can do to someone.
Do you support letting government torture criminals and livestream it?
It’s not about ignoring the heinous nature of their crimes. You can’t normalize government hacking pieces off criminals as ‘punishment’.
Yeah, I know. 😔I just hate pedophiles a whole extra a lot. You can’t trust government to even deliver the mail on time anymore let alone decide who gets capital punishment. I know. I get the disconnect between wanting some criminals to be tortured and live streamed and forgetting who would be charged with carrying it out. Sorry about that.
