WOW:shock: Just went and got a sugarfree vanilla iced coffee at the McDonald's on Trawick Rd in Raleigh and they have a poster of him posted there.
:iagree: I saw one at a McDonald's in SE Raleigh yesterday and was pretty surprised. He's not a "missing" person -- he is somewhere safe and no foul play is at hand. It sounds harsh, but at this point since he has called home and we know he is safe they should put up flyers about kids that truly are missing and not just run away.
Kaci, Slight hijack here, but how was the iced sugarfree vanilla coffee? I have been wanting to try one and love they have the sugarfree available but haven't tried it yet.
Wow, y'all. I see this as a mother simply using a resource available to her to try to bring her MINOR son home. :?
I think shes over-used this source at this point, and put way too much information out there in the public eye. She has stated she has a MySpace page for him, she can contact him through that and it would be much more private. If he can get here, he can get there. He has made contact with her, he's not "missing" per se, he's hiding out. Obviously he's still mad at her and he's not going to go home. She's just got to deal with it, and nothing he reads on here is going to change that. If he doesn't care enough about the authorities getting involved, and the potential for a home investigation, and the potential for his sister and brother to be removed from the home, THEN HE JUST DOESN'T CARE. Sorry.. but thats just what the facts look like... I hate it for his mother, but it is what it is.
AMEN! I hate it for the mother too but my lord, TMI on the web, and checking "SpySpace" and 4042.com would be the last thing that I would be doing if I ran away.
Agree... especially since he was acting out, and not "taken" from the home. I mean it has to be sad for the mom to not have her son, but parents have to be parents and have rules and direction. The real world has rules, and if children do not like it they can not just stop living in the real world (although many try).
THANK YOU!!! You people have no idea what this feels like for me. To be scared to death because I have no idea where my son is, and to have to check this every day hoping beyond hope that he's left a message, that someone he knows has left a message, and hear you so-and-so's talking about him like he's not worth looking for. "When the $%^ dries up, he'll come home..." "He's not missing" And worst of all, one of you actually had the GALL to tell a store owner that I'd heard from him, not during a concerned conversation where two peopleare helping get a young, confused, minor child back home with his family... but in an effort to let him know he can take down the sign 'cause you're sick of looking at it! THIS IS NOT SOME MOVIE! THIS IS NOT AN EPISODE OF JERRY SPRINGER! THIS IS MY SON!! A member of your community. A good kid. How the heck do you people know he's not crashing on the couch of some 19-20yr old slack *** who sells weed to pay the rent and who'd encourage Daniel to do the same rather than get a job? His girlfriend has moved on to someone else, she's not pregnant, he HAS to know this... he's a confused, angry, hurt, betrayed young man who just had his first love... the love of his 16 year old life... dump him like a sac of potatoes. He's the perfect target for would be predators, and you people can actually make jokes about it. Would you shrug and say "oh he'll come home when the @#$# dries up" about YOUR son? He's called me twice in months... I've spoken to him for a total of 4 minutes in months... I've gotten more support and less of this #*%^$ from the over 800 teens who've linked to the new MySpace page about him. They know he ran away. They know why. And THEY're worried about him. They repost bullitens for him. Strangers leave him messages. They've started talking about the scary, stupid things some of them have done when they ran away from home. How do you know he wasn't been picked up hitch-hiking since he called me last? How do any of you have the right to criticize me for doing ANYTHING I have to do to find him. It makes me sick. I hope none of you ever have to go through it, but I hope somehow you all learn your lesson.
Alright, I'm done with this thread AND any other threads related to Daniel. I REALLY hope you READ this thread and take some advise from some of us. Take Care of YOURSELF and your family!
you brought all this to a PUBLIC forum. that means that the PUBLIC can not only view it, but also comment on it. so far, i haven't seen anybody say "shut up lady, you're stupid". they have given you their opinions, which is the nature of a public forum. you can look at it in any of several ways: take it as an attack on you. understand that people are merely giving you some different perspective. decide that people are mean and just don't care about you or your family. understand that you might not be thinking as clearly about the situation as someone on the OUTSIDE of it. use it to build more drama for yourself and the entire situation. whatever. but the simple fact is that the longer you continue to use a PUBLIC forum, you will continue to have the PUBLIC see it. this is not a personal messaging system. it is a system for PUBLIC discourse. people embraced you when you first arrived. do you think that same group of individuals all coincidentally decided at the same time to become callous and uncompassionate? or maybe something within the situation happened to casue them to move into a different mode of thinking? ever seen in a movie when someone is out of control or freaking out somebody else slaps them across the face and they're jolted back into sanity? look at some of these comments that way...
If you didnt want negative comments you shouldnt of put so much info on a public discussion board. I think most of everyone that has commented on this does feel some ounce of sympathy for you and your family. I can tell you that no I am not a mother so I dont have a clue what it must feel like, I can only imagine, but I do know that rather writing all these letters on 4042 and myspace my *** would be out there looking for him everywhere and everyday! JOCO Sheriffs office would know me by name as well as WRAL Channel 11 NBC 17 and News 14. He is the child and you are the adult, so I think you hold the cards......
That's part of my frustration. I AM doing all of that... looking for him everywhere every day... the JOCO Sheriff's department DOES know be by name, I speak with Detective Harris at lease 3 times a week, the news stations have heard from both me AND the sheriff's dept weekly asking for some news coverage... I do all of that during the day, that's why I'm on here at 2:00 am. I'm just frustrated... mad at the world...
You seem to be a very religious person ... so you know that everything happens for a reason. I would hate to find myself in your situation and I honestly don't know what I would do any differently than what it appears you seem to be doing. Hopefully this trying time will end up pulling your family together closer than ever in the future. I'm sure you're frustrated ... but don't be mad at the world. It appears that lots of folks have reached out to your family ... try to focus on the positives.
He is not missing. He is a runaway. He called home. Wasn't that the original purpose of this thread and the posters? To hear from him and make sure he is OK? Well, he is and he is "grown" and not coming home. Sometimes you gotta sacrifice one to save the others. You have two other children, one is still young and impressionable. Focus on him, and learn from your mistakes with Daniel so they are not repeated. I think both of these threads should be pulled. I might never speak to my parents again, if they put all my personal crap out on the WWW for strangers and classmates to read. (I know, I should not have bumped this.)
I have not had time to keep up on this young man , But have tried looking today to see if anyone has heard from him , seen him , did he go home yet , does this mother know where he is yet , did he at least call her ???? So many questions . Hopefully he is okay ..If someone knows the answers to my questions please let me know . Thanks NEVERMIND MY POST ...SORRY CLEO I JUST READ WHAT YOU SAID ...GLAD HE OK AT LEAST ...DANG TEENAGERS
