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Missing JP video-store owner found
By adamg on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 10:17am
Boston Police tweet this morning:
Missing person Josiah Simmons has been located. BPD thanks all agencies for assistance.
Earlier:
Friends launch search for missing owner of JP video store.
Neighborhoods:
Free tagging:
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So what happened?
I hate these stories where everyone is asked to help find a person when they are missing, but then when they are found no one says where they were or why they were gone. It's frustrating.
I STILL want to know how that woman who went missing from JP a year or so ago ended up in Mexico City.
IMHO
A person's safety and privacy is more important than satisfying everyone's curiosity.
Good luck with that.
That whole Internet thing, neh?
So splashing their photo all
So splashing their photo all over the internet with a CALL THE COPS IF YOU SEE THIS GUY is OK?
He didn't do that
So, why should his privacy be violated because he has jumpy friends and relatives? Ditto for the woman found in Mexico.
Sorry, but your demands to satisfy your curiosity and vent this strange righteous whatever it is you are venting do not trump adult privacy and patient privacy. Period.
Talk about a nanny state - it isn't bad enough that we infantalize teenagers and young adults - lets start trending upward! Can't go anywhere without parental permission or without notifying somebody! Is that REALLY the way you want to live?
"Talk about a nanny state -
"Talk about a nanny state - it isn't bad enough that we infantalize teenagers and young adults - lets start trending upward! Can't go anywhere without parental permission or without notifying somebody! Is that REALLY the way you want to live?"
In the pre-cell phone, pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook era, one could sometimes go off and be on one's own. In other words, be UNREACHABLE. It was a choice, and not considered all that unusual. In fact it was very refreshing. It is utterly unheard of now. If the Chicken Littles can't reach whomever they want to reach immediately via a plethora of devices, it obviously means disaster has befallen them.
Whoa, easy tiger. If you're
Whoa, easy tiger. If you're OK with the BPD and BFFs not issuing a BOLO everytime someone goes MIA, that's OK by me. You'll note, from my comment, I made no such "demands" to have any "curiosity" satisfied. If you're going to keep working out your issues in this form, I'm going to start billing your medical insurance provider.
Projection, much?
I'm not the one hurling acronyms around or putting meaningless quotes around things. Nor am I demanding private information that I have no use for or right to see/here for my psychological gratification.
Missing children are endangered. Absent evidence of foul play or misadventure, missing adults should not be subject to the milk-carton treatment or police involvement.
I would agree with you,
I would agree with you, Swirly, except that it is my impression that it was reasonable for his friends and family to worry not because he decided to take a little break from things but because he left without making any kind of arrangements related to his business which employs several people and this left them concerned that some harm had come to him. This doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption. I don't care exactly what happened now that he is found. I can fill in the blanks and leave it at that since it isn't really my concern. I know that the next time I go in to rent a movie I am not going to say anything. Good grief, what kind of person would?
relax
If there wasn't a crime involved, he's under no obligation to explain his disappearance to the media outlets. Like that Jamaica Plain woman who ended up in Mexico City...her family was concerned that she might have gone off her medication, and when she was found, even SHE wasn't sure how she got there. Sounds like it was an issue that her family wanted to handle privately, and since it appears she wasn't kidnapped, it's none of our business.
If it cost tax-payer money it
If it cost tax-payer money it kind of is our business.
Nope
No, it's not.
Super good answer. But in all
Super good answer. But in all seriousness if police resources are diverted there should some explanation. I mean I know some neighborhoods in this city that wouldn't mind a few more cops walking the beat.
Still no.
The Police may have some responsibility to explain how they use their resources, as they get your tax money, but a private citizen who broke no laws owes you nothing.
But how do we know no laws
But how do we know no laws were broken? Said citizen could of easily been hopped up on some drugs and wandered off. Not saying that's the case, but we as a citizenry have a right to know what our police resources are being used for.
Broadly, yes, the public has
Broadly, yes, the public has a right to know what the police's resources are being used for. But on a case-by-case business, it's only the police that have a right to know what its resources are used for. It's their duty to establish that the person wasn't breaking the law, that the person is now safe, etc. The fact that it gets media coverage, and thus public attention, is more of a side effect than anything else.
Hopped up on drugs?
Is there something wrong with you? Be happy the kid was found and get over it.
You know what our police
You know what our police resources were being used for. They were used to find a missing person. Successfully, no less. Feel free to tip.
We know they were found
The situation was resolved, and no crime was committed. That's all we need to know.
Can I see your daughter's TSA
Can I see your daughter's TSA security scan then? How about your tax forms and your ss number?
Asking everyone in the
Asking everyone in the neighborhood to search and putting up posters everywhere is an odd way of handling it privately
Are you soft?
The posters were there to get people to be aware he was missing. Not WHY he was missing. People didn't know if he was in danger so you use every resource you can. Now that he's been found no one is under any obligation to let you know why it happened.
People in Boston are so nosy it's incredible. Armchair wanna be detectives with a burning desire to know everyone's personal business.
I agree. Maybe he's OK enough
I agree. Maybe he's OK enough to be back at work soon. Then we can ask him ourselves.
I think she flew there
I think she flew there
A guess...
I bet she either flew, took a bus, or hitchhiked. Curiosity sated?
Glad this dude is alive and safe.
He was located in 1985 and
He was located in 1985 and returned unharmed. He has other ideas for businesses if the video store doesn't work out. There's a new thing called the cellular telephone that shows some promise. It was featured on an episode of Miami Vice that he watched last week.
Boston Herald has the detail he was found in another state.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverag...
This dude
This dude gives me the impression of someone who'd be like, "yo chill everybody. I went to Maine to visit my buddy living in the woods. No cell service, get off my D."
Not interested in your stereotypes...
If you care, try getting to know him.
I think someone said he went
I think someone said he went on an unplanned vacation.
LMAO
I just burst out laughing - I honestly have to say I thought that when I saw his picture! I thought this guy isn't missing, he's just taking a time out! I've been there!!
In other news
The white blotter with Bart Simpson on it is gnarly
I think I saw this in a movie
I think I saw this in a movie where a video store owner went missing and they sent out a message on the internet to find him and they did and he was fine but no one knew what happened but I forget how it ended.
Employees
The only people he had a responsibility to tell were his employees. He owes them an apology. They need their pay for food and rent and probably are friends with the guy. Maybe they had other plans the times they covered for him.
Maybe customers too?
some of whom may have wanted to return their videos, or had reservations to rent others? A simple "Closed for Vacation 8/12-16" sign would have done the job and avoided an unnecessary alarm.