Sign Petition for Missing Adult Alert System

PetitionOnline.com ^ | 1/23/03 | valleygal

[valleygal]

Many of you may remember a thread posted in November, "Missing Adult, Help Needed, Crime in Progress?" It was a plea for help from the sister of Alice Donovan, 44, of Galivants Ferry, S.C. who was kidnapped and her car stolen from a Walmart parking lot by two escaped convicts. It was originally posted by Alice's sister on Timebomb 2000 and then posted here just hours after it happened, before LE was involved and days before the media picked up the story.

The thread began as one of prayers and hope and trying to get information, to one of sadness and grief as weeks went by and reality set in. Then came anger when the kidnappers were caught but refused to give answers as to Alice's whereabouts.

Now our grief has turned to activism. We believe the time has come for an adult alert system similar to the Amber Alerts for children. While we know adults are legally free to make their own decisions, many go missing everyday not by their own choice. We feel there should be an alert system of some kind in place for adults in jeopardy. Forty-eight hours is too long to wait to be officially declared "missing".

This may take some time and effort, but you can help us by signing the petition. Thank you!

Missing Adult Alert System Petition

Alice Donovan website

[valleygal]

I totally messed this up the first time I posted it so I decided to try again. :)

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

PLEASE sign the petition & help support the development of an adult alert system.

http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Bump-ping for change. Feel free to pass this through your ping lists, please!

http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

My last bump for the night (zzzzzzzzzz). C'mon...we need some help here. :)

[valleygal]

We'll try again tomorrow. We just need to put a link to the petition in some other threads that are somewhat related from now on. Don't worry, it's just the first day!

[Otta B Sleepin]

Bump for the Alice Alert System!

Great job, valleygal!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Bump

[Velveeta]

It feels so good to be able to do something in honor of Alice Donovan, Samantha Burns and the other missing adults out there somewhere.

Please sign the Missing Adult System petition.

[Otta B Sleepin]

Morning reminder bump - everyone, please sign the petition for missing adults!

http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/

[Velveeta]

http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/

24 signatures thusfar.

I'll be posting to other forums, media and websites today and in the coming days.

FReepers, please sign the petition.

Thank you
Velveeta

[Sally'sConcerns]

25 now

[Velveeta]

http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/

Thank you Sally!

[SeattleTiger]

Bump, with prayers for Alice Donovan and Samantha Burns.

[Velveeta]

32 signatures and counting

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

BUMP! BUMP!

[valleygal]

Thanks go to everybody who's stayed on the original thread for the last three months. Everybody's done something.

Many thanks go to getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL. We spent a couple days bouncing stuff off each other. Changing each others words till we got what's in the petition. Most of my original wording is in there but she added and polished. gmo has a flair with words as you can tell by her prayers.

My husband helped, too. He has a way of cutting through the unnecessary. He edited both of us at the very end.:)

[Otta B Sleepin]

gmo has a flair with words as you can tell by her prayers

She sure does.

Petition's up to 44 signatures now!

[valleygal]

Velveeta, can you post something to the general public over at Timebomb (you might have already) regarding the petition?
Something in one of the other categories?

I would need to spend time over there to figure it out.
I really like the categories they have. Just wish it was set up like FR.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Please, FReepers...help us out! Can we get this at least to 150 tonight through your ping lists? http://www.petitiononline.com/adalert/petition.html
Pretty please??

[valleygal]

I just got an e-mail from The Sun News in Myrtle Beach from a reporter named Dave Gustafson. He has been following and writing about Alice since the beginning. Someone sent him the petition and he then contacted me and asked me to call him!

I did!!!! The story about the petition will be in tomorrow's Sun Times!

He asked how I got involved and I told him the whole story about PL posting to TB2K and the story coming over here. Told him about the thread and he found it online. I think he was surprised.

I sent him to the petition thread as well. Told him gmo and I worked on it together.

I'm floored. When the petition form asked me to click OK for media to contact me, I did, but didn't think they would!