Where's Chris Hanson and Dateline ABC?
My daughter told me while we were at a Birthday party/Swim party at a Motel in Jamestown that she had been approached by a guy in a baseball hat out in the parking lot. He had said in a soft raspy voice "is your mom inside?" My daughter is about 5"2' and she’s been told she looks like she’s 12 (not the 24 she is).
This baseball hat clad fellow came up to her a few weeks after a young co-ed in Valley City (30 miles east of us) was killed by an "out of state" looking fellow, and a couple of years after a 20 something girl was raped and murdered over by Fargo (about 100 miles east of us).
Those things have our young North Dakota girls very jumpy. Hayley told me she put her head down and walked away more speedy than usual, and trying to ignore the world around her.
All the while this fellow with the baseball hat makes his way threw the side door of the motel, and threw the not so locked swim pool area, past the kids swimming, right over to MY table. After making some small talk, my work buddy "Kelly" hopes to exchange a few rings of the famous Wishek sausage for the equally popular deer sausage from his freezer. Neither of us knowing that my daughter is down the hall very afraid. She is wondering --where is that Chris Hanson from Dateline ABC --to save her from what she thinks is a sexual predator?
What can we do to make our young people be and feel safer in these new times and not so safe world? Mom and/or Chris Hanson can’t be everywhere.
This baseball hat clad fellow came up to her a few weeks after a young co-ed in Valley City (30 miles east of us) was killed by an "out of state" looking fellow, and a couple of years after a 20 something girl was raped and murdered over by Fargo (about 100 miles east of us).
Those things have our young North Dakota girls very jumpy. Hayley told me she put her head down and walked away more speedy than usual, and trying to ignore the world around her.
All the while this fellow with the baseball hat makes his way threw the side door of the motel, and threw the not so locked swim pool area, past the kids swimming, right over to MY table. After making some small talk, my work buddy "Kelly" hopes to exchange a few rings of the famous Wishek sausage for the equally popular deer sausage from his freezer. Neither of us knowing that my daughter is down the hall very afraid. She is wondering --where is that Chris Hanson from Dateline ABC --to save her from what she thinks is a sexual predator?
What can we do to make our young people be and feel safer in these new times and not so safe world? Mom and/or Chris Hanson can’t be everywhere.
posted by Deb | 8:50 PM
2 Comments:
This is why you learn self defense, carry mase, and maybe even have a license to "pack." Or have a Great Dane walking with you. Nobody will mess with you if your "Man's Best Friend" can look them in the eyes.
Oh lordy! I go along with Chad,
take a self defense class ASAP.
And never walk alone after dark.
I see grown people carrying a big
stick, now I know why.
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