Amber Alert in Springfield
 

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<small style="font-size: 17.5px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; color: #999999;">Date: 2/18/2014 16:48</small>

This is an Amber Alert, the Springfield Missouri Police Department has issued an Amber Alert that occured at 3247 west Lombard at 4:48 pm on 02/18/14. Abducted was Hailey Owens a white female 10 years old. The suspect vehicle is a gold 2008 Ford Ranger Missouri registration 1YF454. The vehicle was last seen southbound on Scenic from Grand in Springfield, Missouri. The suspect is a white male, no further description is available. The victim, Hailey M. Owens is a white female 10 years old, 5 foot 2 inches tall, weighing 90 pounds with long brown hair, brown eyes and pierced ears. Owens was last seen wearing blue jean shorts and purple sandals.. . Please Contact Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810


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What the **** is wrong with people? This makes me sick to my stomach.

I hope they find her unharmed. :(

I know this is ****ed up to say, but Amber Alert is pretty shitty. It just ends up annoying people more than it helps. Sending 500 text messages an hour does nothing to help the situation IMO. It just makes people talk about getting annoying texts instead of talking about the missing child.

Yea, this is the first time I've ever gotten an alert sent to my phone. The alerts took over TV too, changing the channel wasn't an option.

got the message on my phone. posted it on fb as well. said he may be headed to ash grove. hope they find her unharmed

They have found the guy and the truck, but the girl is still missing.

man i really hope they found him in time

JFC. If it were your daughter, you'd want the authorities to do everything they possibly can to save her life. So you got annoyed? Boo ****ing hoo.

Selfish prick.

That doesn't bode well for her.

How am I being selfish? Annoying people is detrimental to what they're trying to do. When you have more people talking about getting text messages every minute rather than the content of the text message, there's a problem. Add to the fact that the ringtone for it is a siren and you have a recipe not for alertness, but for annoyance.

holy shit, you seem very detached from humanity and reality. do you work in a morgue or something? I live in springfield, and the amber alert was very upsetting to my coworkers.

Here's where I hate our laws sometimes. Get this ****er in a cell and start cutting off parts until he talks.

Clearly it worked as it got tips on the truck that was in the alert.

I never said that sending the texts was bad, I'm merely talking about the frequency of them.

Exactly, the guy has been identified by witnesses start beating on him till he breaks. People, like this have no souls, I pray this girl is okay.

Come on man. How inconvenient could it be? Serious stuff.

Me too.

Sorry for the inconvenience?

Signed,
Hailey Owens :shrug:

Can't you opt out of them?

If my son is ever abducted, I hope they send text messages to everyone every 30 seconds and run a continuous loop on everyone's television with the loud ass siren. I hope it annoys everyone to the point there are angry mobs in the streets looking for the abductor just to stop the messages.

A little girl was snatched by a stranger. She may have been raped and murdered last night. and you're whining because YOU HAD TO TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT AND LOOK AT IT A COUPLE OF TIMES.

You obviously aren't a parent. If you were, you wouldn't be posting such stupid bullshit.

But the ringtone was a siren. A ****ing cocksucking siren! It was annoying and really interrupted his game of Flappy Bird.

I hope she is found and okay.


King...not so much

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If it wasn't for all the liberals in this nation that dude would have already been taken care of.

Ugh. Public executions are warranted.

Actually, making a statement like that in a thread like this is pretty ****ing inappropriate. And I'm a gun owner and a supporter of gun rights.

You can disable the alerts, not sure about texts. I never got a text, just an alert.

Yes, and in the most painful way possible.

Sickening

This is awful news, poor little girl and poor family.

God ****ing damnit. That is ****ing sad. ****.

your and idiot

Terrible trajedy.

I agree with the sentiment of others. If my daughter were abducted I would hope that the Amber Alert would go continuously until she would be found unharmed. I too would want everyone to be annoyed by the loud siren noise until they chose to take up arms and help to locate the innocent victim.

Odd, when faced with a choice to take "action," some choose that to be "inaction" by turning off the alerts or just ignoring them. If there ever was a social media program that benefited society it is the Amber Alert System.

Prayers to the family of this little girl.

this

I knew this dude.

Very sad

And?

Really? Damn.

Was he a coach/teacher or something? That is the rumor.

I wish I had ten minutes with that prick alone. Some electircal cables, a battery, some fire. this monster needs torture 5 times a day till he simply dies from it.

Donger will be pleased to know that the witnesses that initially called 911 after the abduction were able to do so because they were sitting in their garage when it happened.

http://www.news-leader.com/article/2...-year-old-girl

I think the alert system could use some fine tuning.

Logically, there was very little possibility that the abductor/abductee was in my area. However, we were spammed with alerts.

Perhaps the alerts could have a variable intensity - more frequent in the area surrounding, and then growing intensity after every hour passes, and the diameter of the alert broadcast widens by 80-100 miles.

And yes, there needs to be a way to opt out.

There is.

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-...on-your-phone/

This is on the National news, I heard it on the radio here in NC this morning... Praying all ends well for this precious baby

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Yea, sickening.

Very sad, didn't read the whole thread
Had not heard that early this morning... Praying the Lord comforts this family in their time of need...

Prayers for this family.

Now after a long night at work, I get to go to bed with anger...

Yeah, I turned them off on my phone. You can't avoid them on television, though.

So sad. Many prayers. Also sorry for the people inconvenienced by the Amber Alert. A child killer on the loose is no reason to bother people on a Tuesday afternoon. JFC.

Oh hell...the SOB already killed her? Incomprehensible...

Story really hits home for me...haven't put my baby girl down since waking up and seeing this. :(

What a sick son of a bitch...

Hailey is my niece. Words cannot describe what I want to do tho this piece of shit right now.

Guy was a teacher at a Middle School according to KY3.com.

This story is just gut wrenching...

Holy shit. I can't even imagine. Thoughts and prayers for your family.

So damn sorry man...my thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.

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Sick bastard

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/spring...48998_24557844

Statement from Springfield Public Schools Superintendent Norm Ridder:
Last night we learned the terrible news that one of our students had been abducted near her home. This morning our sadness is compounded by the recent developments in the case of Hailey Owens' abduction.

The suspect in this case, Craig Michael Wood, was arrested by Springfield Police Department. Wood has been employed by SPS since Aug. 18, 1998. He works as a paraprofessional and athletic coach at Pleasant View K-8 School. His employment has been suspended until this matter is resolved.
Hailey is a student at Westport Elementary School and last year she attended Bowerman Elementary School.

I offer my support to Hailey's family and to our SPS community. Students and staff at three of our schools are coping with this situation. To support these school communities directly impacted by this tragedy, I have assigned additional counseling staff and school police officers to be on hand until further notice.

We are fully cooperating with law enforcement officials as their investigation continues. Because this is an ongoing investigation, I will not be making any further comments about the situation at this time.

And I have to take the unpopular position and side with King here...repeated alerts to people's cell phones is excessive, one notification of the situation is adequate. The purpose of it is to make people aware, not whip up everyone in every adjoining state into a frenzy. Otherwise you'll have people opting out and/or shutting off their phones which completely defeats the purpose.

I wasn't even aware that they sent alerts to cell phones, I've never gotten one on mine.

I'm so sorry.

****, that's sad.

What a shit situation.

Prayers for your family. :(

I, too, didn't realize that as I've never received amber alerts on my phone.

Yeah it sucks but that doesn't mean its okay to spam people's phone with it. Like I said there's nothing wilding with sending an alert a few times. There's just no reason I should have had twelve alerts between 6 and 7am this morning.
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So very sorry and there's not a prayer that can help this. This happened pretty much right where I live and I'm pretty sure I've seen her before and I think the murderer too. So sad and so sickening.

I just heard about this on the news driving to work this AM. Very sad, and especially sad if this poor girl was a family member of one of our own here on the CP.

Very sad day.

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I received either 2 or 3 alerts. Each alert took around 10 seconds out of my busy day.

Now I agree that the sending of alerts could certainly be overdone. I sure as hell wouldn't want to see an alert every time there's a parental dispute and the non-custodial parent runs off with his or her own child.

This was an entirely different situation. Sorry if it interrupted your favorite television show. And it's a real shame that King had to look at his phone a couple of times.

Yeah the mentality of some people that post on what is Chiefs Planet.

Probably already been said but probably shot for TPing a house.

I can't even imagine what you're feeling right now, you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.

who knows how it all went down, but if you are sitting in your garage and some freak grabs a kid in front of your house and takes off, aren't you driving after the SOB while the wife calls 911? If guy runs red lights and shit to get away from you, he's gonna get caught before he kills the girl. I'd feel pretty shitty if all I did was call 911 and found out about this.

**** off, jackass.

Why...because he is right and you are ...well, whatever you are.

My thoughts exactly

Political commentary and attempts at humor are fine in most threads. I think I'd refrain from both in a thread about the murder of a 10 year old girl who is a family member of a regular poster here.

Yeah, that struck me as really odd too.