Posted on 11/06/2021 11:21:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Authorities were able to find a missing 16-year-old girl after she caught the attention of a driver by using hand gestures popularized on the social media platform TikTok.
According to the Laurel County Sheriff's Office in Kentucky, the girl was inside a silver-colored Toyota car when the driver saw her using hand signals known on TikTok "to represent violence at home — I need help — domestic violence."
After recognizing what the signals meant and seeing that the teen "appeared to be in distress," the driver called 911, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
The alert led to the arrest of 61-year-old James Herbert Brick of Cherokee, North Carolina, Thursday afternoon while driving near a Kentucky interstate.
The teenager found inside the car Brick was driving had been reported missing by her parents in Asheville, North Carolina, Tuesday morning, Laurel County Sheriff John Root said in a statement.
The sheriff's office did not describe the sign used by the teen, but a hand gesture first introduced by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year has been adopted by many globally who need to discreetly ask for help or show they're in distress.
The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.
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This post is somewhat of a PSA. I wouldn’t have recognized the hand signal as anything but a weird wave otherwise.
Sounds like mentioning STAN.
Ditto.
Good story; how long before some LibTard thinks it is a dog whistle for white supremacy?
I seem to remember a different hand signal indicating one is in danger. But I don’t think I’d recognize either of them.
In a bar, ordering an Angel Shot will alert the bartender you need help.
What? This sign didn’t mean she’s a White Supremacist? Now, I’m really confused.
When my grandpa would take us out for a boat ride, on the Mississippi, he’d give us the A-OK sign, that this was as good as it gets. Wonder what he’s say if he heard the new meaning?
“The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.”
That’s a maiden aunt waving bye-bye to a small child.
One of the absolutely few good things that has come from Tik Tok
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if im in a bar ordering shots i will need help/s
Never knew that. Good to know!
Worth spending ammo on.
Hit just to the center of the bumps on his forehead.
I recommend a .45 ACP.
Heh. :D
Heh. :D
Put some glasses on the guy and he looks like Dr. Fauci.
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