She would scream from the A tanning she would get and hopefully is in a fetal position from a good old fashion whuppin.

I sure hope nothing really happens to her in the future, because no one will believe her. Do parents teach their kids about not "crying wolf" any more?

Ah, a return to the good ol' wood shop whippin' days. *sigh*

Glad she was found OK, but one thing struck me as weird in the article: she was found on the NJ Turnpike near Exit 1, which is in the far southern part of New Jersey, yet she was treated at a North Jersey hospital? I"m assuming that she didn't show any immediate physical injuries when found, but I'd figure the authorities would want to have her examined ASAP at a nearby hospital.

What she needs is to be ordered to do some community service. Cryin wolf is not the smartest thing to do. I don't care if she was looking for attention or just pranking, she knows better and should be held accountable for her actions.

Yeah, many do still teach not to "cry wolf." It's just until something happens, they don't believe it. My brother was like that, always trying to scare everyone, until one day he had a bad wreck, no one believed him when he called us for help. But of course, he still hasn't learned his lesson. His son does the same stuff, and I keep warning him that if anything does happen to him that no one is going to believe him. I think she should be punished in some way.

It was a scream for help more than just attention, and her parents had better take it seriously or worse things are sure to come.

Yes Lisa, i'm glad she's ok, and yes she needs some serious help, at this point i don't if the parents can do anything about it, but theres help out there.

This girl needs to be charged and as a minimum sentenced to lengthy community service. Who knows how much she cost the state with her "prank" before she ran away. There needs to be consequences, even for children, when they pull a stunt like this. Otherwise, they never get the seriousness of what they have done and all of the trouble they caused. This girl should not be simply sent home and let off the hook for her actions.

They should make the parents of the little b**ch pay for all the police work involved...then let the parents give out their own punishment to the brat..doubt the parents do anything though!

Young people been running away from home for the last few thousands of years or so and will continue to do so into the future.

Lucky for her the police found her before the pimp.

She will probably claim her parents abused her with like you know making her do chores and no computer or cell phone use until homework is done etc

get that guy in North Carolina to shoot her computer.....

A cry for help? More like another spoiled brat who thinks the sun rises and sets on her and wanted to be the center of attention to which she thinks she's entitled.

Punish her, and I'm not talking about just a "time out." Make her feel it in whatever way, shape or form.

I'd say this girl is in need of a good spanking.

She looks like a spoiled little brat. I hope she got a beating when she got home.

It was a scream for help more than just attention, and her parents had better take it seriously or worse things are sure to come.

"Help! My parents spoil me rotten!"

It's the moder era, people love the limelight.

No, this girl needs discipline that she apparently never received. Also she needs to be banned from the internet until she is 18 or on her own. She should be sued for any man-power involved in tracking her stupid ass down as well. The reason so many of these kids are little @!$%#s is because people like you blaming everyone but them for what they do.

I don't think they have a shot for attention wh*re yet.

@jrsygrl-6605722

Something made this girl not only leave home, but also demand national attention.

I think it is safe to assume that she had no clue this would get the national attention that, for some reason, it did.

Folks, not everything is "a cry for help". Teenagers are fussy, selfish people with no forethought. She probably got mad at her parents and ran away. It happens. This new trend of kids using social media to play jokes on authorities, friends, and family, however, has got to stop. That's certainly no cry for help, it's a little brat with way too much time on her hands. Community service should help straighten her out and make her understand that she is not the center of the universe.

jrsygrl-6605722

Checked and released? Something made this girl not only leave home, but also demand national attention. Something's going on and this girl needs help.

No, she doesn't need help. She needs a good lickin' and real parents who would give it to her. The ones she's got obviously don't know how to parent. They raised an obnoxious, spoiled brat who thinks she's entitled to everything.

She should not have been released. She should have been arrested and incarcerated and punished to the point where she finally realized she's not anyone's little princess.

I'm in my 20's so I'm not that far removed from my teen years. I can't ever recall myself, or any of my friends, starting a nationwide manhunt and tying up police resources that could have been used to help other people.

im in my 20's too and me and my friends never did anything like this girl. It really has nothing to do with her age. It has everything to do with common sense.

@dallasff2000

I don't think what this girl did is any different than the "average" teenager. Teenagers today have no concept of cause & effect, responsibility or remorse.

I have two teenagers myself and both have a very good grasp of the concepts of cause & effect, responsibility and remorse. In fact the vast majority of their friends do also. Maybe it's just your kids who are messed up or maybe you don't have any kids and have no clue what you're talking about.

Im with you totally 100% on that !!

congratulations backcountry on your kids "grasp"..........judging by your general line of comments to other posters the only thing your teenagers may lack is how to have a polite conversations with others.........since you seem to have no clue

@marklepews

I don't have any problem with my kids treating douche bags like douche bags even if some of them are so incredibly sensitive that they follow them around throwing hypocritical hissy fits afterwards :)

I rest my case............btw do you kiss your kids with those lips potty mouth?

@marklepew

I rest my case............

LOL!! I seriously doubt that but I guess we'll see huh?

Backcountry164

@dallasff2000

I don't think what this girl did is any different than the "average" teenager. Teenagers today have no concept of cause & effect, responsibility or remorse.

I have two teenagers myself and both have a very good grasp of the concepts of cause & effect, responsibility and remorse. In fact the vast majority of their friends do also. Maybe it's just your kids who are messed up or maybe you don't have any kids and have no clue what you're talking about.

If your teenage kids are like that, then good for you. We're not talking about you and your teenage kids and even the "vast majority" of their friends (what about that minority?).

The fact is that your teenage kids (and their "vast majority" of friends) are now the minority. Walk into any high school (or junior high/middle school) and see what most teenage kids are like, courtesy their parents. They think they're all-that and even more, too. They think they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and if some adult doesn't allow it, then that adult is "abusive." Look at what teenagers in school say and do to their teachers and to principals, and how the obnoxious brats' parents cater to it.

When I was "back in school in da good ol' days," if a teenager (or any kid) did what they do today, a teacher would clock him/her so hard on the face or head, he/she would've hit the floor before he/she saw it. And if the parents found out, they didn't sue - they'd give it to their kid twice as hard. Whatever situation caused this justified throttling never happened again to that kid, and it caused the "vast majority" of other kids never to try it. (And, please, keep your self-righteous indignation at the thought of that to yourself without saying: "If some teacher ever hit my kid, I'd..." - if some teacher had to hit your kid like that, it says everything about you as a parent.)

@marklepew

...the kind of person that collects star trek dvds and listens to Jethro Tull (yes, I read your profile).

WTF are you yammering about now? First I'm more of a Star Wars guy and second, Jethro Tull?? Please do provide a link to this profile because you've obviously got the wrong person. But I have to admit that I am highly amused that you'd look try to find out crap about me on the net. I think I can officially refer to you as my stalker now LOL!!

@Jerry-1903677

The fact is that your teenage kids (and their "vast majority" of friends) are now the minority. Walk into any high school (or junior high/middle school) and see what most teenage kids are like, courtesy their parents.

Dude I walk into a high school at least once a week. I don't know where you live but you should consider moving because I sure as hell don't see any of that in any of the schools I've been in.

(And, please, keep your self-righteous indignation at the thought of that to yourself without saying: "If some teacher ever hit my kid, I'd..." - if some teacher had to hit your kid like that, it says everything about you as a parent.)

And please keep your moronic assumptions to yourself. You have no clue how I would respond to such a situation.

Backmybuddy,

So you are denying that you have a Jethro Tull collection including the school lunch pail?

I am touched by your concern for my health, happiness and social acceptance. And that I am able to amuse you (that is a easy task) and since we are becoming BFF I wanted you to know a little more about me. I actually am not fat and would usually be described as a bit too skinny. I have been contemplating reverse liposuction, a technique where they basically transfer liquefied body fat from one patient to another. Having looked on your profile and seen your photo, I was hoping we
could help each other out here - I figure some of the fat from just one of your cheeks could help add many kilograms to my current body weight. I realize this would leave you a tad lopsided so if we take the fat from your other cheek we could sell it to the Japanese. This commercial venture would effectively pay for the initial operation and save several whales in the process. I think you will
have to agree this is a socially responsible course of action. I look forward to our continued conversation and wanted to invite you over for a visit in the near future.

@marklepew

So you are denying that you have a Jethro Tull collection including the school lunch pail?

Yes. I didn't fill out a Newsvine bio (or a profile anywhere else on the net for that matter) so I would love to see where you are getting this info.

I am touched by your concern for my health, happiness and social acceptance.

I have no such concern. I find all of your many issues to be quite amusing; for example the fact that it takes you an entire rambling paragraph just to make a fat joke. If you can't fit your slam into one sentence it just becomes pathetic.

So much for resting your case, didn't figure someone so obsessed could just let it go. Not that I'm bitching about a having a good laugh at your expense of course.

Convey an idea in one sentence? You must have expertise in this area so I must ask you a favor. I noticed your literary responses to people and I must say, well done, those sentences you mention included a word containing more than three syllables - I am assuming mutha@!$%#a to be one
word in your dimension. As I mentioned I need a favor, I am currently writing a novel and would
be honored if you would concede to being the editor. I realize that you must be in great demand, with a long list of literary achievements and I am less than worthy of your mastery in this area, but an opportunity such as this should simply not be passed by. I will send you the manuscript in my next reply and look forward to your positive response.

I am currently writing a novel which will be also a television script that I think you would be perfect
for the part if it becomes available, it features a genius of superior wit and intellect who uses his uncanny
abilities to protect the innocent. Aided by his loyal pet, masturbating monkey, he endeavors to right wrongs and solve crimes. At the end of each episode he will leave us with a profound, thought provoking and politically correct statement such as "don't leave your pet in the car with the windows up" or "this
is the typical liberal post". An important part of the character development as I see it, would be the developing relationship between yourself and masturbating monkey. The show will be titled
'Monkey Dick' (a combination of private dick and the pet monkey, similar to'canine cop') and I do hope you will make yourself available for this opportunity.

You recall me mentioning that I don't bother reading through your posts once they become so long-winded right?

So are you going to share a link to this profile you've found or were you just making stuff up in an attempt to goad me into revealing my actual personal info?

Backcountry164

@Jerry-1903677

The fact is that your teenage kids (and their "vast majority" of friends) are now the minority. Walk into any high school (or junior high/middle school) and see what most teenage kids are like, courtesy their parents.

Dude I walk into a high school at least once a week. I don't know where you live but you should consider moving because I sure as hell don't see any of that in any of the schools I've been in.

You just "walk in?" What does that mean? Go and spend an entire week in one, all day long, taking a teacher's place. And just how many schools have you been in? Why do you go walking into them? Something's really fishy here.

(And, please, keep your self-righteous indignation at the thought of that to yourself without saying: "If some teacher ever hit my kid, I'd..." - if some teacher had to hit your kid like that, it says everything about you as a parent.)

And please keep your moronic assumptions to yourself. You have no clue how I would respond to such a situation.

So, do tell, then. We'd like to hear, especially since, from what you've said, you appear to be lying. Why is it so important to you to defends unruly, undisciplined, spoiled, obnoxious brats who are the spawn of incompetent parents?

Backybud,

I have access to your Facebook page due to the friend request you accepted from the Oscar Wilde profile I constructed recently. I assumed the name would hold no relevance to you and, consistency being the last refuge of the unimaginative, I typed 'Redneck wearing baseball cap' into google images to locate a photo you would identify and feel comfortable with. I notice your wife/ girlfriend's photos, is she also your sister? Is this too long a response? I know you mentioned you had a very short attention span, have you looked ino adult ADHD?

@Jerry-1903677

You just "walk in?" What does that mean?

I have a daughter in school, she plays sports and is in band. I go to various schools and sit in the bleachers along side of many respectful teens. If you actually find it odd that a parent would spend time in various schools for various reasons you clearly have no basis for your ranting.

Why is it so important to you to defends unruly, undisciplined, spoiled, obnoxious brats who are the spawn of incompetent parents

When the @!$%# did I do that? Are you having a conversation with yourself now?

@marklepew

Backybud,

I have access to your Facebook page due to the friend request...

ROTFLMAO!!! Oh my God, that is the funniest thing I have EVER read on the internet!!! I am literally laughing out loud! The only time I am on Facebook is when my daughter goes to visit her mom for a week or two and that won't happen again until Christmas break. God damn man, you even suck at being a stalker? How hard could that actually be?

I checked out your GF/wife's photos on your Facebook page and while she is not exactly my type, I accept that other people have different preferences. Even when those preferences include facial tattoos and stretch pants constructed from sufficient material to shelter a small village. And their livestock. Some men enjoy dancing with other men without their tops on while others prefer the company of a woman two KFC family buckets away from upsetting the planet's rotational axis.

I read somewhere that Eskimos prefer women of girth as it provides warmth at night. I have seen the size of those igloos though and there is no way your girlfriend would make it through the opening. You could probably just construct one around her and despite the hassle of having to trudge out into the snow every day to catch and prepare the eighty seals required to maintain her mass, it would be like a kiln in there.

If I were an Eskimo, I would build my igloo next to a supermarket or on a tropical beach.

Taking this off the Vine has crossed a line especially considering I assume you are harassing some poor guy using his Facebook account. You should really get some help. You've been reported.

You're correct, my statements were uncalled for and unquantifiable in any manner. I apologize without reserve and ask for nothing but your understanding. I hope, in time, you can come to forgive
me for such contemptible statements. If I could retract my statements I would but I do not have a time machine. I wish that I did have a time machine, I would take my MacBook Pro back to 1984 and visit Steve Jobs. After selling my laptop to him for millions I would return to the present. I could do this several times as each time the present technologies would have changed. It is a flawless plan, I am sure you will agree, lacking only the availability of time/dimension manipulation technologies. If you think I'm harassing anybody but you, then I under estimated your stupidity....you should really seek a brain transplant. What happened to you LOLing all my posts? I thought we had something special............I'm devastated.

What happened to you LOLing all my posts?

Pity

wow..........so you do read the whole post...............LOL

As I've already told you, I scan through them all looking for something that may seem somehow relevant. I just don't actually read through them because I discovered it would usually take two or three tries to make sense of whatever you were attempting to say. Why waste the time when the attempted message is little more than inane rambling? Maybe you've got nothing better to do than make fake Facebook profiles in an attempt to track down someone you're obsessed with but unlike you, I don't waste my time on anonymous people on the net. I just don't care enough about you to bother. Why would I?

cuz you like my bunny?

BTW....Yes, I'm fairly certain there is a worldwide criminal investigation network dedicated solely to bringing those who construct fake Facebook profiles to justice. I believe the punishment is tar and feathering in most parts of the world except your state where you are stripped naked, oiled up and chased around a paddock while wearing a pig mask.

Apparently in the backcountry, this is also known as a 'date'. Variations include substituting the paddock with a motorhome or the person with an actual pig. Or in your case, both.

Backcountry164

@Jerry-1903677

You just "walk in?" What does that mean?

I have a daughter in school, she plays sports and is in band. I go to various schools and sit in the bleachers along side of many respectful teens. If you actually find it odd that a parent would spend time in various schools for various reasons you clearly have no basis for your ranting.

Ooooh, that explains it. You go to your daugher's sporting events and sit in bleachers, and that constitutes "walking into a high school at least once a week" or whatever silliness you said. It doesn't mean actually going into the school, into a classroom, and observing what's going on. Yup, well my bad. You are the expert on what's going on. I apologize. I should know that some mother who attends her kid's sporting whatever knows exactly what's going on and anyone who doesn't agree with her is a moron. You're not actually sitting in a classroom for an entire week. You are going to schools for "various other reasons." May I ask what they are just to clarify that you're such an expert?

Why is it so important to you to defends unruly, undisciplined, spoiled, obnoxious brats who are the spawn of incompetent parents

When the @!$%# did I do that? Are you having a conversation with yourself now?

You did that in every one of your posts. Oh, and since you like to engage in name-calling, let me just say that you're a liar. And that includes what you say about your princess daughter and her royalty friends. We've all seen parents like you before: hyper-defensive about the misbehavior of their kids, defending it and being in total denial about the truth. Your kids are just like Chris Hargensen from Carrie - all "popular" and "perfect." Yeah, right.

@Jerry-1903677

You're not actually sitting in a classroom for an entire week.

Are you?

You did that in every one of your posts.

WTF are you even talking about? You said ALL kids were @!$%#. I said that MOST were not. Just because you live in some @!$%# hole full of @!$%# kids with @!$%#ed up parents don't assume that every where else is the same. In my experience most @!$%# holes are the result of the people who live there and considering your attitude I seriously doubt that you aren't a part of the problem in the @!$%# hole you apparently live in.

you bet your sweet bippy, parents today are kissin to much teenage butt just to keep them happy.

Maybe if she got a good whoopin', she would learn the world cannot spin around her and what she wants.

A kid like her needs a good smackin', and then being isolated to her room for a good, long period of time, with no computer, no cellphone, no "social media" like nitwitter, to ever pull a stunt like this again. When she's learned through the hard knocks - both literally and figuratively - that she ain't no one's princess, she'll learn that she's responsible for others and not the other way around.

Ah, to stop with the "young and stupid" excuses. It tends to last well beyond someone being "young". If you get what you expect out of someone. Have a teen live UP to expectations once and a while. and see what happens.

Good thing police found her before you did! lol Have you ever been on TV? You know, the show hosted by Chris Hansen?

Well said, TWS. Ender Wiggins is obviously some kind of sick pedophile. I wish Chris Hansen would tell him to have a seat and offer him some lemonade before the cops come get him. Nasty #@$!.

Mlw, dude.

I think TWS got the humor.

Notice the LOL.

Occasionally my awesome sense of humor is lost on the plebes.

Not all teenagers are attention craving sociopaths. As a teenager, I was quiet, reserved, hung out by myself, and I only spoke to somebody when I WANTED to be friends or interact, or if I was already good friends with the person. I only spoke up or did anything drastic when I felt it needed to be said/done. Some teenagers are introverts, who do NOT seek attention from others, but who find ways to fufill and entertain themselves, and who do NOT need to act stupid to get everyone else's attention. These are the smart young people.

You and a LOT of people need to realize that not all teenagers are wreckless, could care less, attention whores, and that there ARE teenagers with good heads on their shoulders.

Also, sociopath is a personality disorder, this girl does not have a personality disorder, she's just pretty stupid and lacks empathy and common sense.

"More proof that teenagers today are attention crazed sociopaths!"

And you are proof, that there really are overly judgemental people in this world.

Really? So prior to this generation, teenagers never ran away.

That's not what I said at all, Mike. I'm saying that there ARE well behaved teenagers out there who don't resort to doing stupid things for attention.

So, I gather that people can't change? You know, after reading your statement, it brings to mind a couple of things. One, people such as yourself have no compassion for anyone but themselves, and two, it's the mentality such as yours that cause people who do change for the good, to go without any decent job. One can only hope that people like you grow up some day, and bring humanity up, instead of dragging it down.

I agree, you can't put all teenagers into one category based on the idiotic actions of a few.

Agreed. she should be picking up garbage o n the roadsides, or cleaning at a nursing home.

No, she's from NORTH Jersey. Don't associate her with those of us in the southern part of the state. As for 'Jersy Shore' - most of those people seem to be from NY.

Ok, Debbie...I'll let ya slide (: ) but, sheesh...how could you folks out there allow the embarrasment of Jersey Shore?

What are they supposed to do to stop it? It's legal to make the show. Peaceful protest is allowed, but it would take more than that to stop the production of the show.

Jerry, It's not like we in NJ (especially SOUTH Jersey) have ANY control or influence on NY based media. Remember, it is mostly NY characters acting out in NJ. Never watched the show, because that is what goes on at many NJ shore locations, young NYers behaving badly.

@Jeff-1570172: You're right. It's also another way to piss one's life away.

I agree and that was one of my first thoughts, too. She probably tweeted from her cell phone, why tweet when you can call 911 yourself?

Only people thought this girl was kidnapped is the people on twitter so law enforcement didn't spend any time on this other then the media calls to them. She would get the biggest hug from me and then grounded until she's 100. Glad she is safe but can't believed someone would think that someone who posted call the police on twitter would not have time to call them herself, lol.

I don't believe her parents should be held accountable for anything - this girl is certainly old enough to be held responsible for her actions; if she doesn't have a clue about how much her prank wasted in tax dollars/time, then community service to work off her 'debt' is entirely appropriate.

I'd say...oh, one hour of community service for every dollar wasted/spent?

one hour for each dollar sounds great for her, but her parents DO need to be held accountable too. It's obvious from this behavior that they haven't taught her how serious it is to "joke" about soemthing like this.

Ah yes, because no teenagers prior to this generation have ran away. All people born before this generation were 100% perfect and did no wrong.

So....Mike.....by your response, you are obviously either a teenager or a troll. Which is it?

Nobody is saying that any other generation is perfect, and I'm sure at some point in the past, someone said 'I'm running away' and did so. In today's world, to 'tweet' a false alarm to millions of people is tantamount to shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater - just for fun. Thats not cool, ever.

Problem is, seems today's youth don't 'get' the fact that what they post online or tweet or whatever, its not private and can be seen by virtually everyone...that, and 'jk' just doesn't cut it as an apology when you've incited panic by your stupidity and immaturity.

She needs to repay every single dollar spent on the 'emergency' that she herself created; her parents should not be held responsible.