kricket, I’m just so sick about this for all of you, what a situation to have to live under, like holding your breath all of the time!!
Read your kids the story about the boy who cried wolf, and then practice with the whistles in your back yard, when to blow them and when not to. In your yard set up a code word for ‘danger’, let it be a REALLY peculiar color on a piece of paper, preferably chartreuse, something they don’t see everyday. Hide that color in various places in the yard, and have them go look for the pieces of paper, and blow their whistle real loud when they find them. Congratulate them when they find the paper, and then correlate that kind of blowing with real DANGER. You can make it seem like fun, with a serious note beneath the practice.
Ya’ll are in our prayers that this end soon.
Judy
Thanks for the concern,rilchiam.
This is my diversion. I hap hip surgery. if I am up too much my leg swells up. takes forever to go back down.But that is normal they say. I’ll have trouble with that for a year. Too long to stay in bed. 
Only thing if I sit at the computer very long it seems to be worse. this is about the limit. see ya ;).
Yes, your cousin lives only a few blocks from me. I live right in between The jr. high and high school.
I did hear that he tried twice. They didn’t report that until the 10:00 news though.
They also had two little girls missing, and thought that they might have been the first. It turned out that they were playing in a neighbors house and didn’t hear whoever yelling for them.
I am keeping my kids in the house for a while until things settle down a bit. He is so close to us. I found out earlier that the first child that he tried to take from Madison was my step-daughters classmate. It hit her pretty hard as one can imagine.
Her mother and I are great friends, so tomorrow nite we are going to get all eight kids whistles (because I forgot them when I just went to Wal-mart! Shit!) and both sets of parents are going to talk to all the kids together. I guess that is one thing about becomming best friends with the husbands ex.
I know that he will eventually hang himself, but how many children have to be terrorized before it stops? I know the police are probably doing whatever they can but it just doesn’t seem like they are moving fast enuff.
Mistress Kricket
Did I mention that the police are finally thinking that these cases are related? Bout time!
Be sure and tell us how the talk with all the children went too Kricket. I can’t imagine how you’ll impress the kids with the seriousness of this without scaring them to pieces. How are all the parents handling this?? Have you seen neighbors banding together a bit more? I hope they catch this guy quickly.
Judy
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Okay guys this is getting serious now. I haven’t heard if he tried it again today, but someone at work seems to think so.
Anyway the serious part is that not only is he now getting out of his truck, he is threatening the kids now. Ya’ know if you don’t get in my truck it’s gonna hurt, and you will only make it worse.
We decide to make sure that all of our kids need to be there for the big talk, so we have to wait for sunday. We have all been talking to each of them one on one.
I will keep you guys posted.
Mistress Kricket
They still haven’t gotten the freak who is stalking our communities children!
He tried it again one block away from my house.
I had let my children walk to school at the begining of the week and on Wednesday he was right in their route. They walk in a group now, but he is getting desperate!
His first few attempts were on isolated side streets, then he started to get out of the truck, now he is waiting in pulic parking lots. This last attempt happened outside an Aldis’ store which is situated between the grade school and the jr. high. Both of which are only about three blocks up from the high school.
Now, it is getting absolutely gorgous weather wise around here. The kids in the area want to be out to enjoy the weather, and our neighborhood has been terribly quiet. It’s a shame.
I did how ever get the kids some whistles. Oscar Mayer Wiener whistles. The older ones want to trade them in of course, so we are doing that tomorrow.
Just thought that I would give this a bump back up, and let everyone know what is going on.
Please if you have young people in your life let them know about stranger danger! Still trying not to scare the hell out of them, but it is getting harder everyday.
Mistress Kricket
Are you stuck on stupid?
<<<<Please if you have young people in your life let them know about stranger danger! Still trying not to scare the hell out of them, but it is getting harder everyday.>>>>
This is unbelievably scary for all of you, Kricket! The police * still * don’t have a line on this guy’s license plate with all the times he has shown up in the daylight hours???
Keep praising your kids everyday, how capable they are with screaming/or blowing their whistles and looking out for their friends. Try to blend in some positive reinforcement when you can, the stress of this has to be sorely weighing on all of you. 
Judy
All of the parents, I hope are making their presence known and felt in their own areas by playing out front with their kids. The creep might see what he is up against. Got any linebacker dads???
Just to be devil’s advocate for a second… from what I’ve read so far - only children have seen him , he hasn’t actually abducted anyone (just tried), and continued police presence has not turned up any evidence.
Can’t this be just a big scare? Something happened initially, the parents gets scared, then they transmit their fears to the children, who suddenly start looking for this guy every time they turn around. If they report seeing this guy, all the sudden they get a lot of attention.
Children lie all the time - they report seeing fairies, being victims of absurd satanic rituals, and other nonsense… I’m not saying that’s what is happening now, but don’t dismiss the possibility. After all, it’s the more pleasant possibility - children being themselves, rather than some maniac truly on the loose…
Just an update folks.
He’s still out there, and last week he actually got ahold of a thirteen year old girl who ended up biting him.
Now, knowing that the man has a bite mark wouldn’t you think that whoever knows him might come forward?
I think something else happened today but I missed the news. The local news was filming outside the kids school again today.
Mistress Kricket
Are you stuck on stupid?
Wow!! What a smart kid!! Are they checking to see if there is any DNA under the young girl’s nails?? You know this guy has to have a record of sexual assaults in his past.
I can’t believe this guy hasn’t been caught yet. Thanks for the update, Kricket!
Judy
“Please Disregard the Following.”
Wow, that must be terrifying. I saw a show (Oprah, I think) that had a cop trying to get kids into his car (just to show the parents how easy it was). Even kids that knew not to get in a stranger’s car can be put at ease very easily. Kids (and adults) tend to think the stranger is the weird looking man in the trenchcoat. Anyway, he said to impress on them that anyone they don’t know is a stranger even if he knows their names. He suggested a code word or phrase to be used in an emergency.
I remember when I was young my sister and I got into a stranger’s car to get a ride home. He knew who we were, but we did not know him. Nothing happened. Well, until we told Mamma we did not know him. She went ballistic. If you don’t know him, he is a stranger, no matter how nice he looks and acts.
Virtually yours,
DrMatrix
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OK, this is a hot-button issue for me. Just once, I’d like to get my hands on some bastard who was doing this crap! I would not be above meting out a little vigilante justice.
You know, I am a single guy, in my 30s. I love kids. (I want to have several of my own in the not-to-distant future.) Kids generally like and trust me. I enjoy hanging out with them, teaching them, teasing them, cutting up with them. But because of these sick child-molesting bastards, everything seems tainted. If I enjoy talking to a kid or playing a board game with a kid, or some such, I always feel like the kid’s parents might be casting a wary eye toward me, wondering “What is he up to?” Not a damn thing. But because these slimy creeps are out there, I feel like I have to watch what I say and do, and can’t cut loose and fully enjoy a child’s company.
Damn, this really burns me up! :mad:
That is sad, spoke, though I do understand the parents. It’s a delicate balance these days with trying to help your kids tell what is dangerous and who is just being friendly. Makes one long for ‘the good old days’.
I can remember telling my son DJ, when he was three years old about strangers, yep, the next Sunday at church, a friendly older man smiled at him, and said ‘hi’ and DJ ran screaming his head off to me.
We would have to have another talk!!
Judy
“Please Disregard the Following.”
I so know what you mean, especially as a gay man… this new years’ I went to my roommate’s grandparents’ place to meet his family… my roommate (Eric) has this charming little nine-year-old cousin called Pierre-Marc (I think). Eric and I spent most of our time there playing with him (mostly because the room where the adults was this complete, unbreathable miasma of cigarette smoke!!)
Anyway, Eric’s homophobic uncle kept hovering around… telling the kid loudly to leave us alone… he even told me to my face not to give his son any “tendencies”. Nasty man. Spoiled the whole visit. We left early.
<<<he even told me to my face not to give his son any “tendencies”. Nasty man. Spoiled the whole visit. We left early.>>>
The REALLY sad part is, the dangerous ‘tendencies’ that the obviously oxygen deprived brain of the uncle exhibits will be what is ‘catching’ to the young boy.
Sorry you had such a terrible time, and that people’s fears make their minds close.
“Please Disregard the Following.”