Many College Students are Easy Prey for Abductors

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<p>From MSNBC:</p>

<p>"Parents teach their small children not to get into cars with strangers, but most kids abducted by strangers are teenagers.</p>

<p>The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen set up a hidden camera experiment near two college campuses: the Ivy League’s Princeton and John Jay College, where students study criminal justice. …</p>

<p>A Princeton, Ken Wooden, a child safety expert, pretended to be a modeling agent…He told students that they needed to get in his van for their screen test “for sound purposes.”</p>

<p>One male and one female student got right into the van…</p>

<p>For his next lure, Wooden told a student that if he gets in the van, he’ll be a part of a reality show. The catch is that his hands need to be duct-taped together. He lets Wooden do it…</p>

<p>“It put a cold, cold chill down my spine, because I know kids who have been found dead with duct tape,” he said.
<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Here’s the correct link for that story, which is by CBS, not MSNBC. It’s well worth reading, and showing to your kids.</p>

<p><a href=“http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/college-kids-can-be-easy-prey-for/20060927132309990002[/url]”>http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/college-kids-can-be-easy-prey-for/20060927132309990002&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for the link, NorthStarMom.</p>

<p>It reminds me of a debate that raged across the pages of the NYT a few weeks ago, re: women in the subway who are groped. In essence, American women are too afraid of not being nice or causing a scene, so they don’t stand up for themselves. We teach kids what to do when stereotypical creepy old men approach them, but don’t teach them where the real threats are.</p>

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<p>Define grope. Because sometimes it can be real crowded and you have no choice but to walk up real close to a woman, and her boobs are going to contact a man’s hands inadvertantly. That is incidental (albeit fun) contact, not a grope.</p>

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<p>Joev, why would you be walking around with your hands at chest level? I can see bumping into people but not with your hands up…</p>