Re:The day I left my son in the car
by jack-r-abbit on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:32PM
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> I'm told only 2 in 10 mom's snatch kids
Wow... because I know like at least 30 moms and none of them have snatched any kids. To cover the odds, there must be people out there that know a lot of baby snatchers. Those people should be calling the police. :)
You know what they say, 97% of statistics are made up ;)
I of course picked an absurdly high number because even with two absurdly high numbers it still only nets 2%.
Considering the possibility isn't the same thing as leaping to the conclusion. It's not like the woman was pursued, arrested, and thrown in jail before she ever got near the airport. Rather, the police did the sensible thing and followed the matter up by checking with the owner of the vehicle that was seen in the parking lot.
Are you saying that if there's only a 2% chance of something odd being a criminal incident, they should just blow it off?
Absolutely, yes.
I'm sure you'll be equally philosophical if you're ever in the position of needing to report a crime and they tell you not to worry about it.
I think you have it backwards. I would like to be able to call the police to report an ACTUAL crime...but unfortunately, they would be too busy investigating reports by paranoid folks who think they've seen a possible crime.
For it to make a difference you would have to leap to the conclusion that a woman stole the car, stole a kid (?), and then left the stolen car and the kid in the parking lot, which is now very conspicuous in the US (apparently). That could only make sense if you assumed average moms are child snatching car thieves.
I'm told only 2 in 10 mom's snatch kids and only 1 in 10 of those steal cars. So there's only a 2% chance of that happening at once!