I have never seen a "girls gone wild" anything, Cyborg. I travel alot and maybe there are blondes in Aruba (I haven't been there), but I can tell you that in many, many cultures (countries), blondes are rare. In fact, in the world population they are extremely rare (don't count bottle blondes) so they DO stick out. Think about it. Biggest populations are India and China (NO BLONDES). They are targets. All young, attractive females potentially are targets for people - of course some serious sociopaths have certain traits they seek (such as brunette, certain height, eye color etc.) but when you look at abductions in general and factor in the % of blondes that exist in a given population, the # seems high to me.
I totally agree with you that there is a good chance this girl was out drinking and that may be the real key to this story, but even so, women are vulnerable when alone, even sober, and especially if it's 3 guys vs. 1 girl.
When I was in my early 20's I did some very foolish things. I cringe when I think back. Alcohol wasn't even a factor for ME but it was for others in some of the situations. One case had myself and 3 girlfriends meet some guys at a club and they had a nice sailboat docked clubside; we hopped on (cool, right?) They turned out to be decent guys but later on when we were older, we all thought we were stupid. The guys could've thrown us overboard into Lake Erie and worse. Another case was I stopped by the house of a guy I liked (dated a couple of times) without advance notice. His roommate let me in and said my "boyfriend" would be home soon (ran to the store or something, don't exactly recall). Meanwhile, the roommate I soon see is a little drunk and so are a couple of his buddies that are already there; also, the doorbell rings and in walk 2 more guys. As I'm sitting there with like 5 guys (4 I don't even know) and 3 somewhat drunk, I start realizing I am in a very, very tenuous situation. Nothing happened; my guy showed up and the goofballs all went out but SOMETHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD, NOBODY HURT ME, BUT AGAIN, IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. In addition to giving good advice to our daughters (and sons too), we need to pray for their safety at ALL times.
Bless you Cyborg.
point taken... I've done some dumb things too when I was in college. I look back now and say 'wow obvious someone was looking out for me'!
I chaperoned a couple of student trips. Once in Mexico, I had to go yank a pretty young blonde out of a disco at 1:30. I was pissed.
Then in Europe, this idiot 18 year old sandy brown haired girl goes wandering off after saying she wouldn't, and ended up getting stuck at the end of the subways by herself on the 1st day in one of the capitals at 1:30 am. (This must be a witching hour internationally.) Some kind soul stuck her in a taxi, paid for the fare, and sent her back to the hotel, thank God. She was told in no uncertain terms that if she tried anything else, she'd be going home on the next plane. We had no more problems with her.