In the UK, a child goes missing every 5 minutes

[Stevenj214]

...or so says an advert I just saw. So over 100,000 children go missing every year? Is that true?

[davido140]

Stevenj214 said:

...or so says an advert I just saw. So over 100,000 children go missing every year? Is that true?

probably, 99,999 are found in aisle seven looking at the latest lego sets though.

Sounds like a misprepresented statistic, "loose sight of timmy for 5 minutes", that'll be a lost child, "jemima wanders off at lego land to be found at the security office ten minutes later", lost child.. and so on and so forth.

[Penny-lope]

davido140 said:

probably, 99,999 are found in aisle seven looking at the latest lego sets though.

I have now learned that it is way easier to just leave them at the Lego section, rather than try dragging them around the entire shop.

Yes I am a bad mum

[bishbash]

Lots of 15/16 year olds run away from home, they would still be classed as children.

[grumbledoak]

Sounds like a load of rubbish, TBH.

Did someone want money, by any chance?

[Simpo Two]

We need some hysteria to make our lives more exciting, says the media.

[Stevenj214]

grumbledoak said:

Sounds like a load of rubbish, TBH.

Did someone want money, by any chance?

Nope was a GMTV ad I think. Maybe just typical low brow reporting hyperbole.

[MentalSarcasm]

It wouldn't surprise me to be honest. I don't think they mean how many are abducted, but there are plenty that "disappear". They're in The System but run away from their foster home and never show up. They arrive in the UK because their parents have sent them here for a better life with family and instead their "family" sell them in to prostitution which means that again, they drop off the radar. Plenty run away from home, end up on the streets, get involved with drugs.

Also, how do that statistic define "children". Is it everyone under 10? Under 16? Under 18? If you're under 18 you're not legally an adult but I'm willing to bet there are plenty of 15 and 16 year olds that are part of the red light district, here and abroad (all you need is a fake passport to get in to France and then you can be moved through the rest of Europe without any hassle, that's "progress" for you).

Not sure how many children there are in the UK, but when you start to count children that aren't British citizens you can see how it starts to add up.

[maser_spyder]

"child goes missing every 5 minutes" eh?

The kid's parents must be pig sick of it. Why don't they buy a lead?

[northwest monkey]

bishbash said:

Lots of 15/16 year olds run away from home, they would still be classed as children.

Lots?

Really?

[Hedders]

northwest monkey said:

bishbash said:

Lots of 15/16 year olds run away from home, they would still be classed as children.

Lots?

Really?

Of course they do!

Some kids probably make a regular thing of it, I bet the number of 'missing kid reports' is greater than the total number of kids that went missing, if you see what i mean.

[bishbash]

Hedders said:

northwest monkey said:

bishbash said:

Lots of 15/16 year olds run away from home, they would still be classed as children.

Lots?

Really?

Of course they do!

Some kids probably make a regular thing of it, I bet the number of 'missing kid reports' is greater than the total number of kids that went missing, if you see what i mean.

'zackly

[Simpo Two]

So a child goes misisng every 5 minutes and STILL the population keeps increasing.

Maybe every 4 minutes would do the trick?


(that's a sort of 'Mock the Week-but-politically-incorrect' reply)

[Silent1]

Simpo Two said:

So a child goes misisng every 5 minutes and STILL the population keeps increasing.

Maybe every 4 minutes would do the trick?


(that's a sort of 'Mock the Week-but-politically-incorrect' reply)

Thanks for pointing it out Simpo, i was struggling.

[GreenV8S]

The other way of looking at this is that a lost child is found every five minutes. (That's assuming the vast majority of lost children are found, which must be the case if they're getting lost that often.)

[Hedders]

GreenV8S said:

The other way of looking at this is that a lost child is found every five minutes. (That's assuming the vast majority of lost children are found, which must be the case if they're getting lost that often.)

Yup, the authorities are doing a marvelous job!

[taldo]

83% of statistics are made up on the spot!

[GreenV8S]

taldo said:

83% of statistics are made up on the spot!

The other 47% are made up afterwards ...

[parakitaMol.]

Stevenj214 said:

grumbledoak said:

Sounds like a load of rubbish, TBH.

Did someone want money, by any chance?

Nope was a GMTV ad I think. Maybe just typical low brow reporting hyperbole.

GMTV is the Daily Mail without the big words.

[Colonial]

brokenfather said:

Actually, not a lot different to the NSPCC which manipulates figures to show female abusers in a better light....

And dont even start me on Womens Aid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought Aids was a non-discriminatory killer.

Damm. Now you are telling me there is a womens aids and a mans aids?