Tuesday, April 29, 2008

lost child

Wanted to share this email:
While shopping at

Sam's Club a mother was leaning over looking for meat and turned

around to find her 4 yr. old daughter was missing. I was standing

there right beside her, and she was calling her daughter with no

luck.

I asked a man who worked at Sam's to announce it over the loud

speaker for Katie. He did, and let me say he immediately walked

right past me when I asked and went to a pole where there was a

phone. He made an announcement for all the doors and gates

to be locked, a code something.

So they locked all the doors at once. This took all of 3 minutes
after I asked the guy to do this. They found the little girl 5
minutes later in a bathroom stall. Her head was half shaved, and

she was dressed in her underwear with a bag of clothes, a razor,

and wig sitting on the floor beside her to make her look different.

Whoever this person was, took the little girl, brought her into the

bathroom, shaved half her head, and undressed her in a matter of

less than 10 minutes.. This makes me shake to no end. Please

keep a close eye on your kids when in big places where it's easy for

you to get separated.

It only took a few minutes to do all of that-another 5 minutes and

she would have been out the door. I am still in shock that some

sick person could do this, let alone in a matter of minutes. The

days are over when our little ones could run rampant all over the

place and nothing would happen to them.

The little girl is fine. Thank God for fast workers who didn't take

any chances.

BE SURE TO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE, SO THEY KNOW JUST

HOW SICK PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE!!! (This happened at the Sam's

Wholesale Club in Omaha , Nebraska ..)

This message has been added to the story above:

I received this e-mail from one of my friends today. Let me first

tell you that I work at the Sam's club in Lincoln , NE. The code

that was spoken of is called a 'Code Adam'. It is named after John

Walsh's (host of Americas Most Wanted) son Adam who was

kidnapped and murdered many y ears ago. It is used in all Sam's

Clubs,Walmarts, and Wal-mart super centers to locate lost children.

This is how it works. If by some means you have been separated

with your child tell the nearest employee! The employee will page a

'Code Adam' (missing child in the store) over the intercom system

followed by a description of the child (height, weight, hair color,

age, name etc).

When that page goes out all the exits are immediately guarded,

and/or locked in some cases, also every employee will stop whatever

they are d oing no matter what it is and help look for the missing

child. This will continue until the child is found.

If the child is not found within a reasonable time then the police

are notified and the store will conduct an isle by isle search. So
if ever you are separated from your child now you know

what to do.

Missing children pictures hang by the exits of all Wal-mart and

Sam's Club stores, please take a few minutes to look these over as

you leave, you just might have seen one of the children

on them and

you might be the one to give their parents hope and give the police

a new lead in finding them.

Thank you.

Sincerely, Rudy Magee Sam's Club #6413

Even if you do not have little kids, pass this one on to everyone

you can think of. You never know who you might save by sharing this info!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Although it's a very touching story, I just wanted to point out that it was just a "story". It was reported in the NY Times in 2001 quoting:

"The incident in the note was 'an urban legend,' said Ms. Weber, the Wal-Mart spokeswoman, who said the e-mail message had generated a flood of inquiries and had been circulated as far as the United Arab Emirates, where a supermarket chain that had a program similar to 'Code Adam' said an equally apocryphal note with nearly identical wording had been making the rounds."

Not saying there may not be some truth or similarity to it, but this exact message was a hoax (thankfully) and a powerful one at that.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E6D9123CF934A35753C1A9679C8B63

Sharon aka Scrapcat4914 said...

Morning Shirley!!!!!
As what the person above said I did see this a few years ago & agree with her!!!!!
Not much going on here!!!!
TY for stopping by my blog!!!!!!!!!
HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got a few things to get ready as its the first Thursday of the month & I have my Board of Directors meeting tonight at the Firehouse!!!