Okay, I realise I haven't posted here in quite some time and this is not the lightest subject to bring up when I do so, but a fellow WWU Freshman has been missing since Saturday night. Which is awful. Absolutely awful. But this post is not about the awfulness of his disappearance, but rather about the awful, awful nature of the posts I'm seeing under the 'Help Find Dwight' Facebook group.
Example:
I just listened to Coast to Coast radio program. Someone called in and ask a psycic named CC to give a reading on Dwight. CC accurately discribed him and said he was alive and walkng in a clearing sourrounded by trees south and east of his residence. Possibly near water. She also said 2 days, either he's been gone 2 days or would be found in 2 days. She did not see any foul play involved.God speed to all.
Let us dissect:
CC accurately discribed him
His picture has been posted all over the entire city and aired on various news stations. It's everywhere. Of COURSE she described him accurately. Jesus Christ.
and said he was alive and walkng in a clearing sourrounded by trees
We live in Washington State. If you are not currently walking in trees, you are currently walking in an area surrounded by trees.
south and east of his residence.
Bellingham is located in the very north of Washington, and has a large body of water to the west. There is no other possible direction he could be located.
Possibly near water.
I reiterate: Bellingham has a large body of water to the west. It also has dozens of rivers and lakes and ponds. In fact, I doubt you could be anywhere on the west coast of Washington and not be described as 'near water'.
She also said 2 days, either he's been gone 2 days or would be found in 2 days.
Well he definitely has been gone for more than two days. I think that's one of the few blindingly obvious facts about this case. So I will give you two days, psycic [sic] and if Dwight is not found in the clearing of a wooded area near water south east of here without any foul play involved, you have a lot of explaining to do.
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This absolutely enrages me. There is a person missing, who has been missing for a long time as far as missing cases go, who is most probably either dead or in imminent danger of dying, who needs help as immediately as possible if he is still alive, and there are honestly people out there who are willing to cash in on this and spew arse gravy about "2 days" and "bodies of water" AT THE POSSIBLE EXPENSE OF A HUMAN LIFE. FUCK YOU, CC THE PSYCHIC. Fuck you and your disrespect for human suffering, fuck you and your tainting of a search for a person's child, fuck you and your willingness to possibly delay search parties from finding this person in what little time span he may have left in order to earn a few bucks. How will you feel if there was foul play involved, if Dwight is not found safe? How will it make you feel to know that you might have given this family an artificial hope to cling to, redirected the search for him in a damaging way, delayed finding him until it was too late? You are absolutely disgusting.
ANYWAY.
I feel a bit better now.
I hope enough people are sensible enough to ignore the profit-driven babblings of an unsympathetic crackpot that Dwight will have a chance of being found safe. It's a horrid situation that's only being made worse by people whose actions distract from the real issue at hand.
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