Teenaged boy learns he was kidnapped as a child - by googling his name

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Amazing. Just heard this on the radio.

A 14-year-old boy was playing on a school computer, and out of curiosity he tried a Google search of his name. He found out he had been kidnapped from his father, who had custody, when he was 3 years old. The boy has no memory of his father, but was so affected by the news that he immediately informed a teacher of what he had found. She contacted police, and the boy's mother was taken into custody.

Have you Googled yourself? I'm a little afraid to. I might find out I'm missing.

:confused:
 
shereads said:

Have you Googled yourself? I'm a little afraid to. I might find out I'm missing.

:confused:

You can't be missing as long as you know where you are. Can you?


I would be afraid of finding signs I was not wanted. Thinking why my mother keeps moving without telling me?

I like the Av She, that is sexy!
 
I read this on the cnn site the other day. I thought it was kinda wierd but neat. They said the boy didn't want his mother to be arrested because he had no hard feelings towards her.
Wasn't there a tv movie some years ago that dealt with a very similar subject? "The face on the milk carton" or something like that? Anyone remember?
 
kellycummings said:
I read this on the cnn site the other day. I thought it was kinda wierd but neat. They said the boy didn't want his mother to be arrested because he had no hard feelings towards her.
Wasn't there a tv movie some years ago that dealt with a very similar subject? "The face on the milk carton" or something like that? Anyone remember?

There was a made-for-TV (at least I think it was) movie based on a true story called 'I Know My Name is Stephen' or it could be First Name, don't remember. That's the only one I can recall, but then again the only reason I remember that one is that it aired when I was a kid and had quite an effect on me.

- Mindy
 
What's startling to me about this story is how much you can find out about someone simply by doing a keyword search. When my friend's daughter died, I sat here one night, without even knowing why I did what I did, and did a search for her name. Within seconds, I was staring at this dead girl's name listed in the cast of a play at the university she had attended up until a few months before she died. Another search produced a message board where she, or someone with the same name, had been chatting. It gave me chills. The first one - her name on the playbill - was eerie simply because it was evidence of a living girl, in a part of her life I hadn't known about. The second one, though, was disturbing because it was so intrusive.
 
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A7inchPhildo said:
I like the Av She, that is sexy!

Really? This old rag?

;)

BTW, you can be missing even if you know where you are. There's a classic Foghorn Leghorn cartoon from the Chuck Jones era. The Strom Thurmond of roosters is entertaining that little genius kid that never says anything (to impress "Widder Hen") and they play hide and seek. Foghorn Leghorn is hiding behind the bar, watching the kid determine his whereabouts by using a slide rule and a protactor. The kid confidently walks over to a feed bin and begins to open it.

Foghorn Leghorn: "Ah bettah not look; ah just might be in theah."
 
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shereads said:
Really? This old rag?

;)

BTW, you can be missing even if you know where you are. There's a classic Foghorn Leghorn cartoon from the Chuck Jones era. The Strom Thurmond of roosters is entertaining that little genius kid that never says anything (to impress "Widder Hen") and they play hide and seek. Foghorn Leghorn is hiding behind the bar, watching the kid determine his whereabouts by using a slide rule and a protactor. The kid confidently walks over to a feed bin and begins to open it.

Foghorn Leghorn: "Ah bettah not look; ah just might be in theah."

That scene is one of my all time favorite cartoon jokes. Classic!
I remember laughing my ass off as a kid.
 
Actually, I googled my name and found out I am a retirement home, a town, a street and all sorts of things that have nothing to do with me.
 
shereads said:
Have you Googled yourself?

I just did. Result:

Did you mean: "(spelling of my name changed)?"


No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.

Your search - "(my name)" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.

Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.


You're so mean Sher. I just found out I'm a nobody. :(
Not even a retirement home, street... *sob*
 
Yeah, I've been reading it in the Newspapers as the father was from Red Deer, two hours south of here. Odd, I don't know what to make of it yet.

Not too frightening or anything like that, for me at least.
 
My real name gets a professorship in Portugal, naked videos, an artist, a Brazilian singer, and a folklore legend.

Perdita
 
Done it. The results were as expected. I'm the only one in the world with my name, and I have not been kidnapped. Yet.

#L
 
I haven't been kidnapped, but I will be soon. There's a conspiracy against me. It's posted at multiple web sites; they think I can't decode it.
 
1. My real surname is unusually rare. A search gets multiple hits but disappointingly few about me as me. My daughters, my brother and his wife, my nieces and nephews get more mentions than I do except for 2 below.

2. I share my full name with an Elizabethan protestant minister (an ancestor) who wrote a book that is historically significant only to a small part of the Americas. To everyone else it is boring and embarrasingly naive. He wrote about a place he had never been to as if he was a real estate salesman. He advised people to go there. They did and found he'd lied.

3. My ancestors got around. Towns, neighbourhoods and schools are named after them. So far all have been directly linked to my family. The places spread from the Americas to Australasia.

Things are getting better. As more historic information is put on the net my earlier career, when I was more publicly active than I am now, is getting some hits.

Og
 
I used to think my surname was unusual, as a matter of fact the only references to my surname in phone books, electoral rolls etc in England are all close family.

Then I googled it and found it to be amazingly common (in Lithuania obviously) and world wide too. There is a famous artist with the same name but I don't think he's any relation.

Interestingly I was stolen from a gypsy family by royalty and only learned of my origins at the investiture.

A friend of mine is absolutely certain he's not kidnaped as his mother wraps his snap (sandwiches) in road maps. Quite often when he comes home from school he finds they've moved house. For birthdays or christmas they always buy him luggage. And they only ever buy him one-way tickets for holidays.

Gauche
 
minsue said:
There was a made-for-TV (at least I think it was) movie based on a true story called 'I Know My Name is Stephen' or it could be First Name, don't remember. That's the only one I can recall, but then again the only reason I remember that one is that it aired when I was a kid and had quite an effect on me.

- Mindy

That case was about a child abduction that was solved when an adolescent walked into a police station and dropped off the missing boy. When questioned, that was what he told the police, who checked and found that he was also an abductee who had been missing for, like, five years or something...

I was living in Vallejo at the time, and, like you, can remember the effect reading about it in the papers had on me...although I only watched part of the miniseries and didn't read the book it was based off of.
 
My, my, am I busy!

According to Google, I've written an article about the second Harry Potter-movie for a religious website, I work at the university of Umeå, I've arranged giant parties, scored a goal in a local football game, I work as a theologist in a school, I'm the head of a riding school, I was born in 1870, and died in 1789.:eek:
 
Remec said:
That case was about a child abduction that was solved when an adolescent walked into a police station and dropped off the missing boy. When questioned, that was what he told the police, who checked and found that he was also an abductee who had been missing for, like, five years or something...

I was living in Vallejo at the time, and, like you, can remember the effect reading about it in the papers had on me...although I only watched part of the miniseries and didn't read the book it was based off of.



That boy died in his 20's in a car or motorcycle accident. The weird part is his brother was the guy who murdered those women in Yosemite.
 
OK, this is odd.

Under my maiden name (which isn't really all that common) I am a track athlete, an illustrator, a wedding photographer, a plaintiff in prison rights reform, I have a Hollywood Classified Ad in Texas, and my name is placed with more than a million others in the STARDUST spacecraft to visit the Comet Wild in 2004.

Under my married name (much more common) I found accurate information about myself in grad school and in scholarly articles. But the pretenders with my name have apparently written a movie screenplay, have voice over talents, are basketball stars, international performing artists, are active in women's rights, work as journalists, AND were all murdered at age 16.

Now I'm very, very confused.
 
a Philosophy Professor from the 19th century, which the links say he founded a University in Nagasaki, Japan.

???

That's cool. I think we are separated by six or seven generations max.
 
Accoridng to Google:

Top hit: I submitted a story to Literotica;

Second hit: I wrote a very fast sort program in Intel assembler language in 1989;

Third hit: I play Piano on a Taiwanese Jazz CD;

Yep, all me.

Well, that's fucked my chances of getting back into the straight world! (Most employers Google people nowadays as a quick background check).

Anyway, I don't give a shit anymore: I refuse to work for anyone who looks down on Literotica. So there (tosses bowler hat into the Thames)
 
oggbashan said:
1. My real surname is unusually rare. A search gets multiple hits but disappointingly few about me as me. My daughters, my brother and his wife, my nieces and nephews get more mentions than I do except for 2 below.

Have you tried being arrested? That should get some hits. It always works for me.
2. I share my full name with an Elizabethan protestant minister (an ancestor) who wrote a book that is historically significant only to a small part of the Americas...He wrote about a place he had never been to as if he was a real estate salesman. He advised people to go there. They did and found he'd lied.

Your ancestor wrote copy to sell swampland in Florida? We're practically related!
 
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damp, your AV makes me want to give you a biscuit and beep your nose. So cute.
 
Sub Joe said:
So there (tosses bowler hat into the Thames)

Unless you mean the hat, that action alone ought to get you any number of hits.

PS. Are you a pianist? Or is there another Sub Joe IV?
 
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