Isabella

[howardcoombs]

howard - as always you crack me up. I was reading your reply and thinking you called that number and proved it was a hoax and then at the end it turns out it's not a hoax at all. Sounds like from the details you provided you might have actually spoken to the poor mom herself.

I'm glad I'm able to provide a source of amusement for you but no, I've not spoken to the mum.
Whether she is poor or good or evil is not something I'm privy to. I just know what I have found out from digging around a bit which I hope you would do before forwarding on chain mails in the future.

So Isabella is indeed lost, and was kidnapped by her father. Thanks for clearing that up.

Thats a leap. Where did you get that from? I certainly didnt say she is lost and I cannot find any mention of kidnapping anywhere. If you have good accurate information to share, please let us know.

Not sure why you think that wasn't already considered by people reading this - that was actually what I assumed.

One parent taking a child while the other getting worried is an extremely common occurence. Should we be looking forward to regular alerts from you on this? In the USA alone, 350,000 children a year are taken by a parent in custody disputes. Men and Woman pretty much equally are guilty in this respect.
More USA statistics:
Mothers take the child away 46% of the time.
Fathers take the child away 54% of the time.

Also not sure why that somehow no longer makes it an issue. Kidnapping is kidnapping and a mother is looking for information to locate her daughter.

If you have some evidence of kidnapping, please let everyone know as I'm sure many are curious about this. I'm not aware of any kidnapping going on.

I can only think by your condescending tone that you assume readers of this thread are hysterical women (and men?) who think the "boogieman" (your words) are out to kidnap their children.

Some may be and some may not be but why is that even an issue. The issue at hand is the forwarding of imaginative chain mails. What does it accomplish exactly? I've pointed out to you the downside; is there any upside to propagating such information without even checking the validity of it ?

Since you mention being logical, I would say it is much more logical to assume that like the couple of people who did respond, they either glanced at it and noted the photo, or thought it was not real and didn't give it another thought. Not really logical to assume a parent read this and based on this alone decided to systematically avoid travel in China as their child would be kidnapped.

I cant assume what others do - I know what I would do and did do when confronted by a chain letter that looked out of place. I spent a few minutes searching, found what I was looking for and posted it so people dont make incorrect assumptions and have some false beliefs. At the same time, I tried politely to ask you not to continue the practice in the future.

Now I'm going to be logical and close this thread from further comments from me (and I hope you).

The logical thing would have been never to forward something without checking the veracity of it, especially when it pertains to children and their well being as its a hot-button for many parents.
I hope you will do the logical thing next time before propagating such things.
Have a lovely weekend.