After startled cry, UND senior vanishes (Dru Sjodin)

Star Tribune ^ | November 25, 2003 | Chuck Haga and Richard Meryhew

[maggief]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Dru Sjodin finished her shift at the Victoria's Secret store at 4 p.m. Saturday, then did a little shopping at another store in the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks.

As she walked to her car, the 22-year-old University of North Dakota senior from Pequot Lakes, Minn., used her cell phone to call her boyfriend in the Twin Cities. They talked for about 10 minutes, he later told authorities, until the call ended with a startled cry from Dru:

"Oh, my God! No!"

Nobody has heard from her since.

A few hours later, there was a second brief and voiceless call to her boyfriend, and the signal from her cell phone was tracked to a rural area near Fisher, Minn., 13 miles southeast of Grand Forks.

Throughout the city Monday, people took up her disbelieving cry: "Oh, my God, No!"

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[Devil_Anse]

And besides, THESE trolls have a smoothness that is obtrusive without being blatant. In fact, they are sold as a delicacy in Phnom Penh.

[Devil_Anse]

Never mind.

heathrnd sleeps with the fishes.

[cbfromgf]

DID ANYONE GET THE LATEST PEOPLE maG?!?!?! ND iS FINALLY PUT ON THE MAP!!!! YOU WANT ANSWERS TO THE LAST WORDS THING LOOK IN THUR!!

[hellinahandcart]

You wouldn't believe the latest one today. There are two newbies claiming to be the mother and aunt of a U.S. soldier who was raped in Kuwait. One immediately used the "j" word, too. Even though no one appeared to be "judging" her niece.

Now, that is such breathtaking arrogance I'm not even going to ping the list. I just hit abuse on both of them. These people can get on the forum and say whatever they like, because they know that the soldier's identity will be kept secret and therefore nothing THEY say can be confirmed or challenged.

[Devil_Anse]

You gotta be kidding me.

First, is there a news article somewhere on here that says a soldier was raped in Kuwait?

If not, then the troll has gone to a new level: instead of making up stuff about legitimate news stories, it is now making up NEWS STORIES.

That sort of behavior sux. It's not funny the way the usual illiterate troll-screeds are. I'm glad you hit abuse and had done with it.

[LibKill]

"Oh, my God! No!"

This is a number 1 argument that all people who do not wish to be sheeple should be armed.

Had she been armed she probably would be sued by the pervert's family. That is better than being dead.

I hope they find her body and bring it home, there is very little chance of her being alive.

[cbfromgf]

yes..exactly

[hellinahandcart]

First, is there a news article somewhere on here that says a soldier was raped in Kuwait?

Yes, and after six days and about 250 posts, along come the "mother" and the "aunt" yesterday with their two cents.

I decided not to call everyone's attention to that one. There's just no way to gracefully flame the "female relatives" of a real female rape victim, even if they are a pair of sick phonies. I think maybe that is the point of these posts. To get people to say "look how mean those freepers are. Yes, I was lying about who I was and what happened, but just look how mean..."

[Devil_Anse]

"look how mean those freepers are. Yes, I was lying about who I was and what happened, but just look how mean..."

Lib-nutz can say this over and over again about conservatives. In fact, they do. But it goes to the essential differences btw them and conservatives. The "meanness" they complain about can also be called healthy skepticism. Actually, it is not "meanness" (as I know you are well aware), but affinity for candor. A tendency to call a spade a spade. A tendency to cut through the bullshit and the spurious emotions, and to size up a situation as objectively as possible.

Let's not be afraid to be what we are. Okay, I'm not lecturing, I'm just telling what I believe is right for myself.

The conservative will not be able to get past "Yes, I was lying about who I was and what happened." The spiteful liberal will gloss over that and say, "Well, they COULD have been poor, grieving relatives, SO..." SO, let's keep the focus on YOUR meanness, instead of on THEIR lying.

If we adopt the "it could have been a tragic victimization" attitude, then we would need to go back and say, "I know Tawana Brawley really didn't get raped and smeared with feces by a group of white male criminals, but it COULD have happened, b/c there are so many racists out there, and so let's focus on that imaginary wrong... besides, we really get off on imagining eevil white male racists victimizing a poor young black girl."

[gigi6]

hhhmm..i'm confused..why am I considered a disruptor?? I just dont get it.. I just got on here..posted what I thought and now i'm a disruptor!?? I'm confused! Can some please clear something up for me??

[gigi6]

this is a late reply to this..but I actually do know Dru and I know her family. My sister went to college w/ her. And Dru's roomate was my sisters best-friend.

[Simcha7]

SHALOM!

Hi...Catspaw,

THANK YOU!

Excellent Post.

I've noticed ALL the New Trolls too...they are almost Amusing to watch...Public School Unuseful...Limo-Liberal IDIOTS.

Best way to handle the sorry lot is to IGNORE them.

[cbfromgf]

thats cool..guys not to burst anyones bubble...she is dead...they found her blood in His car...adn a knife in the trunk.

[luvbach1]

Also, every woman should be instructed to fight for her life at the moment abduction is apparent. It's her only real chance. NEVER leave with the abductor.