Cops! at the library: kidnapped!!!

[depechemodefan]

REally, the tv show should film here.

We pay a cop to come to the library. Actually, we pay the police dept who sends a cop to work overtime at the library.

Anyway, Sat., all of us here were cursing our patrons. It was goin to rain and we were all thinking, "please let there be no one coming to the library." It didnt' rain, so we were hoping "please let it be so nice people go outside and not come to the library."

A girl (she didn't look like a teen) and a guy come in to study. I tell them that the second floor is quiet.

The girl logs into Facebook Places.

Some time latter her father comes into the library, showing a missing poster, asking everyone if they seen his daughter.

The regulars see the poster and say, "there she is, there's the trouble maker!" The girl is trying to hide behind some shelves.

Teh cop is called up to the third floor (where the drama is happening) to arrest the 22 year-old guy the 16 year old girl was hanging out with. Her father is screaming at the guy, though the guy, being hand-cuffed, was acting cool. The father gets kicked-out because he is too fucking loud. The girl starts to leave so I don't know if security gets ahold of her to keep her from leaving. But when she gets on the first floor she is screaming and wailing, asking for her mother. OF course, all our regulars have to go to the third floor balcony to watch the drama.

Finally her mom shows up. The cop is doing the cop thing at her cop car. The guy has warrents out on him. The guard tells me, "you can tell that girl is sick-inlove with that guy." and the cop gets back-up to take the girl to the hospital to get her tested for sexual assult.

This happened around 1:30 pm and the cop is busy with this so never comes back.

[Kristev]

Oh my word.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

:| I'm glad I never went through the "THIS IS THE GREATEST MOST PURE LOVE THAT EVER TROD ON EARTH LEAVE US ALONE" stage. Urg. I'm actually involved with a younger guy! (a year younger. )
Drama drama drama. tsk. You know the whole kidnapping thing was only because the father didn't/doesn't like the guy. ... and in some states if they had sexual relations then it'd be statutory, but still.

[Tsiyeria]

In AL it sure would've been.

Was the guy's name Edward by any chance?

[Seraph]

Was the guy's name Edward by any chance?

Kill it with fire, then!

[depechemodefan]

At least Edward went to school. I talked to the cop yesterday and also found out the couple were living on the streets! The cop was asking ther girl, "why did you run away, to live on the streets when you have a nice home?"

[Mr. Security]

at the Library I do security at over the past year or so it seems we have someone coming in at least once or twice a week with a missing poster for teens. often times it is the same person who keeps running away. Our library seems to be the main hub for teen runaways who are usually female 90% of the time. Generally if we see them we are instructed to call police missing persons and not approach them. Often times it is a parent or relative who comes in with a picture and wants us to call them if we see the missing teen but usually we ask if they have a police incident number as we don't know what the situation is with the family and prefer to call the police so they can handle it. It's amazing how often some of these teens run away

[Jester]

It's amazing how often some of these teens run away

In another thread, we've been discussing how so many parents are so fucked up and treat their kids so badly and so abusively. With that in mind, I'd say it's more amazing that MORE teens don't run away so often. I don't know why anyone would be amazed by teens running away, considering how many fucked up home situations there are out there.

[Mr. Security]

true, a lot of them also run from group homes and i'm sure those place aren't always the greatest places either

[Tsiyeria]

In another thread, we've been discussing how so many parents are so fucked up and treat their kids so badly and so abusively.

I gotta wonder, though, how many of these teens run away from perfectly good homes, simply because "no one understands me" and "my life sucks". It sounds like the girl in the OP is one of these.

[underemployeed]

Well I guess I would never expect a run away teen to go to a library of all places. local seedy establishments yes. but books. hell no

[Jester]

I gotta wonder, though, how many of these teens run away from perfectly good homes, simply because "no one understands me" and "my life sucks". It sounds like the girl in the OP is one of these.

We can't really say if she is or isn't, as we don't know. The way the father was yelling and ranting and raving and carrying on, can you be certain that it was a perfectly good home? I can't say either way, to be honest.

That being said, there is no question in my mind that many teen runaways DO leave perfectly good homes because, well, they're teenagers. And as you said, "no one understands." Yada yada.

I also don't doubt that many teens with completely fucked up homes stay in those fucked up homes because, well, they don't realize that their fucked up home IS fucked up, that that is not the norm.

That being said, I also have absolutely no doubt that a whole lot of teens ran away because they really saw no other choice because they had a fucked up home and they REALIZED they had a fucked up home, and saw running away as the only recourse.

Well I guess I would never expect a run away teen to go to a library of all places. local seedy establishments yes. but books. hell no

She was checking her facebook. A library is the perfect place to check the net if, say, you have no actual home. Or money. Or self-respect.

[Mr. Security]

She was checking her facebook. A library is the perfect place to check the net if, say, you have no actual home. Or money. Or self-respect.

That's the main reason they come to the library. I've lost count how many times parents or relatives have come in saying that their child was just on facebook

[crazylegs]

Well I guess I would never expect a run away teen to go to a library of all places. local seedy establishments yes. but books. hell no

It's warm and safe.

[Shangri-laschild]

Well I guess I would never expect a run away teen to go to a library of all places. local seedy establishments yes. but books. hell no

I don't know about your public library, but the homeless men (some of the creepier ones too) hang out outside the library where I live. Or at least homeless looking creepy men anyway. I once made the mistake of wearing a short skirt when I was picking up a friend at the library and should have waited in the car. Not worried they would have done something but they had the *must go wash!!* types of creepy stares. Plus plenty of homeless people hang out in libraries. A/C, place to sit (sometimes cushioned), etc

I gotta wonder, though, how many of these teens run away from perfectly good homes, simply because "no one understands me" and "my life sucks". It sounds like the girl in the OP is one of these.

While I agree with Jester that we have no way of knowing if it actually was a good home, it never stops amazing me some of the things people will do. My sister was homeless for a while after she turned 18. Her boyfriend at the time ran out of people who would let him crash at their places and had no where to stay (on account of not caring enough to even try to find a job). She was still welcome to stay with my parents but she opted to stay with him including spending the night at a skate park at least once. Some time after they got married and my sister got pregnant, my parents relented and let him start sleeping at their house. It was that or let my sister continue to be homeless with him (the kind of homeless that involves a good percentage of couch surfing for a night here and there but not all the time) because he wasn't going to make an effort to get a job. Actually the night at the skate park may be the incident that made my parents relent because she may have already been pregnant at that point. Yup, he was a winner.