What prompts a 9 yr old and an 11 yr old to make a prank phone call?
Curiosity, wanting to do something new/different/daring, maybe they saw the reward $$$, maybe one dared the other, it doesn't mean something deep.
I remember making prank phone calls with a friend when we were about that age. Why? Because we were kids and kids do silly and stupid things. The phone had special and magical powers--the ability to dial some numbers and talk to someone else, even a stranger, was fun at that age. I would venture a guess that some significant number of kids do silly things like that, if not that exactly. Or at least did, when I was their age.
I think she meant the victims in the mass murder in the movie theater in Colorado.
Sorry, but calling someone to ask if their refrigerator is running or if they have Prince Albert in the can is a prank phone call. Calling 911 with a false report is altogether different.
If they were my kids, I would make sure they learned that there are consequences for irresponsible acts like this. They would have ALL of their privileges taken away for a period of time, no computer, no phones, no access to friends, no 'treats'... and I might think up a few more. This was a STUPID thing to do and I'm sure they are regretting doing it by now.
I think she meant the victims in the mass murder in the movie theater in Colorado.
Sorry, but calling someone to ask if their refrigerator is running or if they have Prince Albert in the can is a prank phone call. Calling 911 with a false report is altogether different.
If they were my kids, I would make sure they learned that there are consequences for irresponsible acts like this. They would have ALL of their privileges taken away for a period of time, no computer, no phones, no access to friends, no 'treats'... and I might think up a few more. This was a STUPID thing to do and I'm sure they are regretting doing it by now.
However, with 25 officers responding to a call, we know that some number greater than 0 officers is still on the case. No, probably not all 25 or even those particular 25, but some number of LE, yes.
bingo.
911 is no prank and no pre-tween i know would EVER use that as a source of humor...boredom notwithstanding...
i find nothing funny or irrelevant about it. 25 officers swarmed a neighborhood. all other calls were avoided to respond. that's a crime.
these girls should be devoid of any I-device for a long...time. ipod, ipad, iphone, itouch, icarly...and perhaps a parenting semester for their caregiver(s).
my mundane thoughts for the evening...
they called 911 three times???
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/cri...cle_d6237802-f278-50c1-92d1-b798986b1555.html
Nearly $4,700 in resources was spent investigating a prank call made by a pair of sisters who called 911 Sunday and claimed to be missing Tucson 6-year-old Isabel Celis, the Tucson Police Department estimates.
The girls called 911 three times saying that a man was coming for them, giving the name Isabel and saying they were kidnapped, according to 911 tapes released Monday afternoon.
In the first call one girl repeats hes coming when asked what she was calling to report, before hanging up the phone.
In the second call, a girl says Isabel when shes asked what shes reporting, when asked again why she was calling she replied Im kidnapped and gave the address of East Old Spanish Trail when a dispatcher asked where she was calling from.
In the third call one of the girls again says hes coming. When the dispatcher asked whos coming she replies The guy hes coming for us, help me.
A link to a statement made by Rebecca Celis where she expresses, amongst other things, her surprise that "they" haven't given up on Isa...by "they" she means locals who are still persisting in searching, fundraising, awareness raising etc. I find it odd that she defines herself as separate from these efforts.
I also find it odd that she is speaking entirely alone, with no support, indeed, no apparent need for support. She seems quite upbeat and perky. She also utters the (to me) absolutely mind-boggling and revealing sentence
"for me, the least I can do, the better".
http://***************************.au/2012/07/becky-celis-deception-continues.html
This is why Isa is being forgotten. Her "mother" wishes it that way.
Thank you Tx. Yes I did mean the shooting victims. I know what I'm grieving for in that situation.
The point I was making was: with the Isa case I'm not sure there's anything to grieve about, let alone knowing what that something is exactly. A scam? A prank? A money-making scheme? A fake abduction? A real abduction? An accident gone wrong? A homicide covered up? We don't know anything.
Keying off the parents behaviors, they don't seem to be upset or grieving or even looking, and if they are not, and it stands to reason they know more than any of us here, then why would anyone else grieve. For all I know this girl is at summer camp or visiting relatives.
BUT, I can tell you that there is no way this missing girl could be at a summer camp. Those sort of things are registered for, and considering LE is bound to realize it's that time of season where kids are off at camps and such, I'm sure they would have searched places like that.
I was being facetious with the summer camp comment, based on the parents' lack of concern.
But where is your proof for thinking the parents are not concerned? Are there videos of them being happy during interviews? What exactly makes you think they aren't concerned?