http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-university-rhode-island-student-matthew-royer-found/story?id=19249935#.UZ_KMZxuh1E
So this kid probably just ran off for some reason or another. Ok. No big deal. It happens. But his family reported him missing, it ran in all the national papers, and the public was implored to help in his search. Now that he's been found...the family is asking for "privacy and to treat this as a family matter". And...that's it. No more information. A similar thing happened here in KC a few years ago. An all points bulletin was put out for a missing father of a bride to be. He went missing the day before his daughter's wedding...and the family was on every news channel telling their sob story about him missing his daughter's wedding and blah blah. 1000's of police man hours and untold civilian hours (civilians were out doing massive searches) were wasted, when the guy just showed up one day....apparently he'd been living out in the woods for several weeks. Then...that was it. No more information....the family asked for "privacy and to treat this as a family matter." I'll admit to being a little pissed off. This guy had some sort of breakdown or whatever, and tons of people wasted their time and energy on him...when he was out hiding. I felt like we were owed an explanation. Don't need all the sordid details....but....we should know the basics of what happened. Am I wrong to think that? Does privacy trump all, even when the public is enlisted to help, and it turns out their help was a waste of time? Aren't we owed SOME kind of explanation? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
