Found Safe FL - Caden Speight, 17, kidnapped by 4 unknown men in light-colored van, do not approach, last seen 12800 block SW Hwy 484, Dunellon, 25 Sep 2025

[Quill]

And as someone who grew up in rural America, if find this quite normal. When I was in school other kids drove to school in pickup trucks with gun racks (often containing shotguns or rifles) in the back window.

Same here and we never had a single issue. Society and values were different.

 

[CityKid]

That's when I suspected a hoax. He's supposed to have been shot and scared for his life but wastes time calling mom and giving details when calling 911 and getting them faster to save his life would be the obvious thing to do.

Of course. This didn't make sense from the start. I'm not making excuses for him, but whatever he was claiming was easily debunked BS, and MOO the police knew it pretty early. He may be having mental health issues, or the pressure of what to do after senior year in high school, or an unrequited romantic interest, or problems with parents, who knows? Emotions are big when you're a teen. HOWEVER, big emotions don't mean you blame an imaginary ethnicity for your imaginary shooting and kidnapping. Remember Charles Stuart and Susan Smith?

 

[mpnola]

Well. I am glad he is ok. I hope he gets help with whatever stressors in his life felt so heavy that he made up such a crazy story and started his plan in the daylight with cameras and people everywhere. The one guy had the gps timeline that he saw a kid that seemed out of place on a black bike and a backpack that seemed long at the very exact time and same place he went "missing". He couldn't think he would get away long, could he?

Im sure the police will dig and see what was going on and if it deserves charges. But those were some pretty serious allegations!!! It put other people (especially Hispanic men and ex-employees) in very serious danger!

 

[ErinC]

I'm glad he's all right, and I hope he comes to understand the grave danger he could have put local Hispanic men in.