[dawn53]

Getting the word out quickly helped yesterday in Tampa. A 17 year old was abducted, all the local media was covering it and a guy sitting at a stoplight, listening to local radio, recognized the car with the perp and the girl inside, alerted authorities and they apprehended the car, saved the girl, and the perp shot himself.

Happy ending because the local media was saturating the airwaves with it.

As far as national coverage, I don't know if it serves a purpose.

[2Jedismom]

They have some kind of program here in Oklhoma where they flood the media when a child is stranger abducted. An actual alert goes out something like a storm alert. The media goes on the air and starts reporting and a banner scrolls down at the bottom. I've seen it work once.

[HiJinx]

Saturated airwaves worked to end an abduction in Tampa...
That verifies my first assumption, that increased media coverage helps the authorities by getting citizens involved.

I just hope the second half isn't true, that someone is trying to take advantage of the situation...

[My Favorite Headache]

Dawn you have to tell me if this girl who was seen in this car in Tampa...was she just sitting there? or was she screaming or what? Man can you imagine seeing that at the light next to you?

[ksen]

As far as national coverage, I don't know if it serves a purpose.

Oh, it does. The question is, whose purpose?