At 16 there were times when I didn't go home for days
/hope everything works out

Sending some positive vibes your way subby. Hope she comes home soon, safe and sound.

Bathia_Mapes: CaptArmond: Subby here

The well wishes are appreciated. Made my wife cry when she saw it, she was ok through all this with not crying until she saw this thread. I put this on Fark as I've exhausted all the resources that I can muster.

Some additonal info:
She tends to go by Kay.
She talks at a rapid pace with a noticable speech impediment.
She has a lip ring (lower right lip), a tongue ring, and several ear piercings including the top of the ear (whatever that is called) on the right side.
We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related) but she's only lived with us recently.
She (and I) are new to Carlisle (wife is a native), we recently purchased a home here to allow us the space to take her in.

If anyone knows where she is please contact the Carlisle police at 717-243-5252 (thanks to whoever put that in the thread earlier).

Thanks to all of you for your help thus far. We are hopeful that Sam is safe, just worried as all hell with not knowing where she is.

Good luck. My thoughts are with you and your family.

You mean a lisp?

netweavr: Have you checked under the bed? They're always in the last place you look.

Everything is in the last place you look! If you kept looking after you found whatever it was you were looking for, you'd be an idiot

CaptArmond: Subby here

The well wishes are appreciated. Made my wife cry when she saw it, she was ok through all this with not crying until she saw this thread. I put this on Fark as I've exhausted all the resources that I can muster.

Some additonal info:
She tends to go by Kay.
She talks at a rapid pace with a noticable speech impediment.
She has a lip ring (lower right lip), a tongue ring, and several ear piercings including the top of the ear (whatever that is called) on the right side.
We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related) but she's only lived with us recently.
She (and I) are new to Carlisle (wife is a native), we recently purchased a home here to allow us the space to take her in.

If anyone knows where she is please contact the Carlisle police at 717-243-5252 (thanks to whoever put that in the thread earlier).

Thanks to all of you for your help thus far. We are hopeful that Sam is safe, just worried as all hell with not knowing where she is.

/know that we love you..and that we are all pulling for you. Hug your wife, keep her close...you are one another's strength now. Depend and keep each other close. Will pray for a happy ending.
//group hugs you and yours.
:(

CaptArmond: Some additonal info:
She tends to go by Kay.
She talks at a rapid pace with a noticable speech impediment.
She has a lip ring (lower right lip), a tongue ring, and several ear piercings including the top of the ear (whatever that is called) on the right side.
We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related) but she's only lived with us recently.
She (and I) are new to Carlisle (wife is a native), we recently purchased a home here to allow us the space to take her in.


Sending positive vibes your way, man.

badhatharry: The cops should be able to track her cell phone. Hopefully it won't take them too long to do it.

When my stepdaughter disappeared I could not get the cops or the cell phone company to give me any location information at all. This was about six years ago, so there was no tracking software you could install on the phones, either. I ended up cancelling her cell phone service since its primary purpose was for us to contact her, and she would not bother to answer when we called.

trekkiecougar:
/the worse thing is to watch your child die right before your eyes
//still grieving for my 15 year son, who I lost going on 8 years ago
///going to cry now

My heart goes out to you

Not much I can do from CA, but I'm pulling for you. Can a modmin put Carlisle, PA in the headline? Maybe catch a few more local eyes scanning the headlines?

Chinchillazilla: Shirley Ujest: namatad: you know
for all the HORRIBLE things that we say and do to each other while on fark, this is one of the things that hits me hardest.
we REALLY pull together on this kind of shiat.

I guess in the end, we really arent heartless bastards.

Hey, we had 100% agreement that Dino Resmpect Whatshisface is a complete Douchebag, We can be snarky poopstains and agree on some things. It does rip the time/space continuum thingymabobby, but then we rush over to the lastest Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman abortion of a thread and our universe rights itself.

But when a Farker needs help, you just do what you can.

We share our worries. Drink our sorrows and ridicule others successes.


It's a tradition.

Fark is, in fact, your personal army.

/I love it here

+1

Samantha Starr? Seriously? Were her parents actually planning a career in porn for her?

Anyway, since she's a foster child, ya know ... it's most probable that she absconded and is just fine (except for the later career of drug use, prostitution and homelessness).

/finally got to say absconded

CaptArmond: We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related)

Okay, hopefully this kid is just acting out because she doesn't like the new rules she has to live by. As a father of two daughters, please know that I am praying for her safe return. (some of us actually still do the prayer thing, it doesn't cost anything)

Good Luck!

CaptArmond: Subby here

The well wishes are appreciated. Made my wife cry when she saw it, she was ok through all this with not crying until she saw this thread. I put this on Fark as I've exhausted all the resources that I can muster.

Some additonal info:
She tends to go by Kay.
She talks at a rapid pace with a noticable speech impediment.
She has a lip ring (lower right lip), a tongue ring, and several ear piercings including the top of the ear (whatever that is called) on the right side.
We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related) but she's only lived with us recently.
She (and I) are new to Carlisle (wife is a native), we recently purchased a home here to allow us the space to take her in.

If anyone knows where she is please contact the Carlisle police at 717-243-5252 (thanks to whoever put that in the thread earlier).

Thanks to all of you for your help thus far. We are hopeful that Sam is safe, just worried as all hell with not knowing where she is.

I'll say a prayer. I have four kids, and if any one of them went missing, it would tear me up.

I guess this is what happens when the average age on fark tips 40 - we go from funny not-news to two cases of "my child is missing, help me find them" inside one week. We're achieving an insular version of missing white girl syndrome.

Good luck finding the kid, and good luck with the "find the kid" thread.

Bathia_Mapes: cmcl: Maybe some more details for people who live in the area? Where does she like to hang out, does she have a boyfriend, etc.?

The submitter, and foster father, CaptArmond, gave some more details further back up in the thread. She's only been with them for three days.

I saw that, but submitter has known her three years, so I thought he might be in a position to know her hangouts, whether she has a boyfriend, anything else that might help locals keep an eye out for her.

Sending the info to my cousin in Philly. Looking forward to an update letting us know she's home.

Shirley Ujest: OgreMagi: RexTalionis: Flab: Bathia_Mapes: That was someone else.

I know. I was just a little distraught that Farkers' daughters disappeared at such an alarming rate.

Mine's only 2, and I don't really want to go through something like that 15 years from now.

If I ever have children, I'm planting GPS trackers on them. Something that wouldn't run out of batteries - maybe by running off of the glucose in their blood.

Power it off of teen an.gst

That's some funny shiat.

Meh, it's pretty good, sorta medical...

CaptArmond: Subby here

The well wishes are appreciated. Made my wife cry when she saw it, she was ok through all this with not crying until she saw this thread. I put this on Fark as I've exhausted all the resources that I can muster.

Some additonal info:
She tends to go by Kay.
She talks at a rapid pace with a noticable speech impediment.
She has a lip ring (lower right lip), a tongue ring, and several ear piercings including the top of the ear (whatever that is called) on the right side.
We're her foster family and she's only been with us for a little over a week. I've known her for roughly 3 years (work related) but she's only lived with us recently.
She (and I) are new to Carlisle (wife is a native), we recently purchased a home here to allow us the space to take her in.

If anyone knows where she is please contact the Carlisle police at 717-243-5252 (thanks to whoever put that in the thread earlier).

Thanks to all of you for your help thus far. We are hopeful that Sam is safe, just worried as all hell with not knowing where she is.

Good luck subby. If Facebook ever comes up normal, I will post, I am a bit far afield but know people in Western PA. Thoughts and Prayers are with you and your family.

Hang in there, Subs...you did a good thing taking her in, don't doubt that.
I'm sending her pic to my grown kids, who will be at Anime Boston this weekend. It's not too long a bus ride for her to be headed up here if she's into any of that.
I'm prayin' for you.

My thoughts are with you, subby. For what it's worth, I'll keep an eye out.

/Philly area

Has anyone even mentioned that she's believed to be with another (black) girl. Or so google lead me to believe. Funny we haven't heard much about the black chick hmm. This is her, right? http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wls/cms_exf_2007/_video_wn_images/66 58461_600x338.jpg

Kenny B: kroonermanblack: Good luck subby.

And I hope anyone who false-reports being subby for a 5$ TF sub IN THIS THREAD gets castrated.

By an angry syphilitic moose with herpes.

Now that's funny! Enjoy TF for a month.

Good luck to the girl and her family. Will keep you in our prayers.

I just got that email and was like 'wtf? Surely it can't be that threa....I'll be damned.'

Thanks. And just know you confused the hell out of me. I was actually horrified I might have mistyped and claimed to be subby or something. But now? Now I get to finally see what TFD is all about!

Best of luck subby - hopefully she comes home soon. Had a good friend growing up who was a foster kid. Good kid, very smart but she like to test the boundaries since her crack head mom never gave her any. Used to run away for a few hours to test the water and see if anyone noticed - hopefully your foster daughter is the same and is just testing you to make sure you care.

Frederick: This is my greatest fear. I successfully talked my daughter in to quitting her paper route because I was so worried.

I am pulling for you and your girl, Subby. Best wishes.

It is my greatest fear too, which is why I let my 16 year old daughter have a job where she finishes at 9, let her ride her bike to hockey training, let her go with her friends to the local music festival...

Just because it is my fear doesn't mean I should raise a scared child. Kids on a longish leash tend to develop the skills to find their own way and if you give them more as they get older then you don't need to become a helicopter because they become smart and independent.

As has been said, Kay will probably turn up (perhaps looking a bit sheepish having bade a bad decision or two). The reality is our kids today are safer than we were at their age, not that bad things don't happen but they are not common.

Still subby
kudos for the foster thing, that is a good thing
and
I hope it all works out well for her

(plus, w00t rugby girls. kid number 2 was a rugby girl until she got too old to play with the boys)

cman: I hope she is found safe. Hopefully this will be nothing more than a simple communications problem.

/I hate this planet

Don't hate at will, friend.

Switch the binary.

Hate/love.

Love/hate.

You own the switch.

;)

I hope she returns safe.

CaptArmond, my thoughts are with you and your wife. I'll keep an eye out here in Chester and Montgomery counties. I hope she's found safely and this is all over soon.

Rixel: netweavr: Have you checked under the bed? They're always in the last place you look.

Everything is in the last place you look! If you kept looking after you found whatever it was you were looking for, you'd be an idiot

or maybe in bed? when I was 5 years old I fell asleep with the dog that always laid behind our couch behind our front door and mom had the entire neighborhood lookin' for me, until I woke up, crawled out, and said 'what is everyone so upset about?'

RexTalionis: FTFA: Starr is described as 4'11", 110 lbs, with long brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing white shorts with a hole in the right leg, a black tank top, and black sneakers.

Now that it's been revealed that she's pierced to bejesus and back I think that this points to her possessing poor decision making skills. She probably got into the wrong VW while helping a guy with crutches find his lost dog.

Seriously, why don't you go and kiss the front bumper of a moving pickup truck?

After reading she was pierced all to hell and "the last time the father saw her was 5:30 when she was leaving for rugby practice" i question why anyone would let their 16 year old adopted daughter travel anywhere alone. You can't take her to practice, drop her off, or even stay and watch and, you know, support your kid's hobbies and sports, make sure she's safe until she's back home?

/good luck
..hey maybe she's an excellent, but distraught, mathematician like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting
/you might learn something about yourself tonight, subby

Wanted for questioning.

Shirley Ujest: Indubitably: cman: I hope she is found safe. Hopefully this will be nothing more than a simple communications problem.

/I hate this planet

Don't hate at will, friend.

Switch the binary.

Hate/love.

Love/hate.

You own the switch.

;)

I like this!

Thank you.

I made it for you.

*bow*

I was two minds of this, and thought about questioning subby's parenting skills.

But a foster kid who has only been in the house a week? I would say your rules are a good start in the short term and I hope she's the type with a history of running off and coming back rather than having got into the wrong car with someone.

Hoping for the best.

Foster care is hell. You get switched up every few weeks, everything you own is stolen by the juv-dq's in there with you. Running away is a common thing for kids in care, they usually are found within a few days. The fact that she is new at your place reassures me, she probably just freaked out, got hammered and is spending a couple of nights on a friends couch. You called the cops, they won't really care but she will probably surface in the next couple days, hungover but ok.

I am speaking from the clearest experience I can. I had a 14 year old daughter who ended up in foster care (her dad committed suicide and she threatened self-harm, therefore she "needed to be in a supervised regulated home" (not my words), She went missing many times, once for six weeks. I understand how worried you are but the odds are that she is fine. I am opening myself right up to Farkers disdain here but felt I needed to say something. My thoughts are with you tonight.

One last thing, when she comes back, get her on birth control if she is not already and get her that HPV vaccine as well. Girls in 'care' are extremely high-risk for STD's and pregnancy and it's possible that nobody else has talked to her about this.