# Jayme Closs awarded "hometown hero" award **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051 "2019-05-16T13:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/1 "2019-05-16T13:41:45Z")
In case you don’t know the background: her parents were killed and she was kidnapped. She escaped. This was her first public apperance since. I am all for celebrating her, but she did NOT look comfortable at all to me. > **[Jayme Closs honored as "hometown hero" in award ceremony](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jayme-closs-honored-as-hometown-hero-wisconsin-award-ceremony-today-2019-05-15/)** > > The 13-year-old appeared with family and friends to receive her honor on Wednesday Brian ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/2 "2019-05-16T14:06:19Z")
Let’s see…She’s a 13 year old girl who saw her parents murderer by a total stranger, managed to escape, and is now facing a room full of total strangers. No reason to be uncomfortable there. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/3 "2019-05-16T14:11:40Z")
I hadn’t heard her kidnapper pled guilty and thank goodness, the prosecution doesn’t have to probe details of what may have happened beyond the murders. All you can do is hope for her to be at peace. It is her first public appearance so it’s not like anyone would know what she is normally like anyway. Comments like that are better kept to ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/4 "2019-05-16T14:16:06Z")
What a shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers those legislators are! That was about them getting their names in the news, nothing more. They used her like her kidnapper used her. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/5 "2019-05-16T14:47:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What a shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers those legislators are! That was about them getting their names in the news, nothing more. They used her like her kidnapper used her. I have to agree. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/6 "2019-05-16T14:54:36Z")
Sad. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/7 "2019-05-16T15:24:44Z")
Maybe we should think ourselves lucky they didn’t round up 9 other crime victims and turn it into an interactive phone-in competition hosted by Simon fucking Cowell. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/8 "2019-05-16T15:57:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What a shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers those legislators are! That was about them getting their names in the news, nothing more. They used her like her kidnapper used her. Not to mention that on the same day Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was pushing legislation to limit abortion rights in WI. I’d like to ask him if he would support a law forcing a girl like Jayme Closs, had she been impregnated by her captor, to carry the baby to term. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/9 "2019-05-16T16:47:22Z")
But the “baby” didn’t do anything wrong. There is nothing with forcing about a 13-year old pregnant by rape to carry her rapist’s child to term and be tied to her rapist for life. Yeah, right. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/10 "2019-05-16T17:12:39Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > Not to mention that on the same day Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was pushing legislation to limit abortion rights in WI. I’d like to ask him if he would support a law forcing a girl like Jayme Closs, had she been impregnated by her captor, to carry the baby to term. Maybe she had her cats declawed, so you could ask the Speaker about that. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/11 "2019-05-16T17:38:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What a shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers those legislators are! That was about them getting their names in the news, nothing more. They used her like her kidnapper used her. Unfortunately, I’m a bit suspicious that all the family members surrounding her pushed her into it as well. It isn’t so politically correct to call the family members such names, but I would not be surprised if someone in the family called their legislator up and ‘suggested’ the award for her…what legislator would be brave enough to turn down such a request? Did you see this picture of all the family and their smiling faces…she’s the only one who doesn’t want to be there. > **[Jayme Closs honored by Wisconsin Assembly as 'hometown hero'](https://www.wifr.com/content/news/Jayme-Closs-honored-by-Wisconsin-Assembly-as-hometown-hero-509970611.html)** > > Jayme Closs, held in a Wisconsin cabin for three months before escaping her abductor, is being honored by lawmakers as a “hometown hero.” can’t call the family " shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers"…that would be bad. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/12 "2019-05-16T18:08:05Z")
Giving out an award like this to crime victims isn’t unusual. I hope the family consulted with the girls therapist and followed professional advice. Thankfully the kidnapper/murderer plead guilty and that saved the family a long and painful trial. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jayme-closs-awarded-hometown-hero-award/834051/13 "2019-05-16T18:22:49Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > can’t call the family " shit-ass bunch of selfish fucking cocksuckers"…that would be bad. Based on one thing. Not a pattern of 2, 3, 4, or 5 things. One. Well, if this was poor judgment hopefully they’re naive and will learn. Lord knows there are vultures out there as this got so much national coverage. I can think of worse places to be.