XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: nntpmail@epix.net   
      
   On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:41:09 -0800, Nick Hull wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Ann  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Since the person who called 9-1-1 gave the next mile marker (141; the car   
   >> was eventually found near 140), it is hard to understand how the car could   
   >> have been missed if searchers had gotten out of their vehicles and walked   
   >> (or atved) the ditch line.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "I think that out of panick for their parents this family did what any   
   >> family would do, everything they could to find them. Unfortunately, I   
   >> think they stepped on alot of southern toes in the process. Their tone   
   >> which was stereotypical northern was aggressive and placed blame on   
   >> southern law enforcement."   
   >   
   > I would have thought the family would be interested in their parents   
   > enough to park at mile 141 and actually walk back a mile, more   
   > productive than news conferences.   
      
   Note that the second paragraph above is a quote ... not mine.  (Somewhere   
   along the line, the attribution has been snipped.)   
      
   Since the family had been searching themselves, had they known about the   
   call, it seems likely they would have searched there.  In any event, the   
   news conference being discussed was after the vehicle/bodies had been   
   found.   
      
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