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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 6, 2019 0:45:02 GMT -5
I'll do that but I'll get Home Alone 2 only if they cut out the scene with Trump in it.  |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 9, 2019 2:11:59 GMT -5
I'm going to chime in here for hopefully the only time. I liked In Pursuit's Facebook page today and I was scrolling through the comments. A few days ago, the page shared a story about missing child Rondreiz "Junior" Phillips and how to commemorate the anniversary of his disappearance, family and friends held a vigil and launched balloons. One of the comments was someone posting about how people shouldn't launch balloons because it's bad for the environment. Look, don't get me wrong - I agree that there are better options available. But seriously, there's a time and a place for that conversation. Commenting on a story about a family grieving the disappearance of their loved one is not the right time or place. It just makes you look insensitive. Reminds me of that scene in "Home Alone" where, after they discover Kevin is gone, Uncle Frank says, "If it makes you feel any better, I forgot my reading glasses!"
OMG I finally read the comments and they're insane. They're complaining about balloons being deadly to animals. I'm an animal lover myself, but a small missing child takes precedence for me. These people care more about balloons than finding a little boy. *smh*. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 23, 2019 16:10:33 GMT -5
People are complaining again about John Walsh stating the number of fugitives he's caught in the In Pursuit commercials "as if he did it only by himself"- he has always praised law enforcement and the viewers as well!- he's simply stating the amount he helped catch in a short commercial!- and once again not to sound like a broken record but the whole reason a lot of fugitives have been caught was because those who did the right thing and called/e-mailed in a tip did it because of Walsh's credibility to reassure them they can remain anonymous, their tip will be handled with the upmost care etc...
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Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 23, 2019 16:49:52 GMT -5
People are complaining again about John Walsh stating the number of fugitives he's caught in the In Pursuit commercials "as if he did it only by himself"- he has always praised law enforcement and the viewers as well!- he's simply stating the amount he helped catch in a short commercial!- and once again not to sound like a broken record but the whole reason a lot of fugitives have been caught was because those who did the right thing and called/e-mailed in a tip did it because of Walsh's credibility to reassure them they can remain anonymous, their tip will be handled with the upmost care etc... Agreed completely. I imagine the reason people contacted AMW/The Hunt/In Pursuit anonymously was due to John Walsh's reputation, professionalism and reassurance. Not everyone could have the same character to accomplish that while on camera. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 14, 2020 20:46:58 GMT -5
I know I'm a relatively liberal guy (or an independent who leans liberal) but I've seen complaints about In Pursuit profiling a black fugitive for the first episode and it's really pissing me off because the show has been fairly consistent in profiling a variety of different races as well as male and female suspects and a variety of crimes in season 1 and the cases for season 2, heck a bunch of cases last season were white murder suspects and this season there's a few as well. It just happens to be the first guy shown will be African-American, if he wasn't the first fugitive it wouldn't have stood out as much. Not to mention they don't stop and think that what they are trying to do is get justice for a black victim, not simply arrest a black fugitive.
Also, as I've stated before when it comes to Hispanic fugitives, they are no worse than others but tend to get profiled more than whites and blacks because they are more likely to flee the country and thus be harder to catch, hence the number of them on wanted lists compared to other counterparts likely to stay in the states and get arrested quicker.
In Pursuit has the same mission as us, capture these guys and gals because of what they're accused of, not because of their skin color.
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Post by Scumhunter on May 2, 2020 0:40:07 GMT -5
Some lady who always has a nasty comment that doesn't seem to understand the nature of In Pursuit replied to a their Facebook reposting about Frank Contreras "ANOTHER NONWHITE CRIMINAL." She apparently missed Jory Worthen Derek Whisenand (although captured before airing) Kevin Waguespack Troy Stanson Jeffrey Forrest and all the other white fugitives aired this season. I've said it countless times again and again. Every race has violent people. Wanted lists tend to be more heavily hispanic because they are more likely to flee the country and thus be harder to catch. Not because they are any better or worse than white or black fugitives, who tend to be easier to catch because they stay in the country or ironically flee to places like Latin America where they stand out more. I've spoken to HeadMarshal about this. I've had like at least ten if not more white homicide suspects on my list to profile in the past year who were caught before I had a chance to put them on the site. Also take a look at most of the white homicide suspects we profiled since like last September. Most of them have been caught already. I'd of course rather them caught than not be caught but I can't say how many times I've had white murder suspects that get arrested literally right before I'm about to make a thread on them. With a few glaring exceptions like Jason Brown and Robert Fisher, us white people are actually terrible at hiding. Also as far as African-American fugitives, a lot of them are able to stay on the run for a long period of time because they have street smarts white fugitives don't always have. I'm not saying this as like a patronizing thing, a lot of them grew up in rough areas and already know what it's like to have to survive unlike us privileged white folk who might think going on the run is a walk in the park. Really sick of politicizing and/or bringing race into fugitive searches. Good and bad guys come in all shapes sizes and colors. Non-whites are just overall harder to catch and us white people overall suck at hide-and-go-seek. |
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Post by Scumhunter on May 22, 2020 21:20:08 GMT -5
Under the In Pursuit Facebook posting about still looking to locate fugitive Tamera Williams a lady who admitted to not even watching the episode posted "maybe he had it coming. Does anyone know why she did it?". Once again an ignorant response and once again the problem with female fugitive hypocrisy- whenever it's a female fugitive and male victim, there are always seems to be someone fishing for a reason to justify what the female did- apparently not just in child abduction cases but any cases. The male has to be abusive and no woman is pure evil- when we know that isn't true. Notice how whenever it's a male fugitive wanted for the murder of his wife or girlfriend no one asks the same question.
Once again the number one goal I feel of this site is to protect women and children- but the hypocrisy when it comes to female fugitives and trying to justify their actions is mind-boggling.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 4, 2020 17:31:05 GMT -5
Sorry I should be on my best behavior on a holiday- but not being in the holiday spirit anyway I saw someone ask on a posting about missing child Arianna Fitts "why don't you post about the manhunt for Jory Worthen"- they literally made a posting just last week! I want Worthem caught badly too of course and he was my #1 Most Wanted of 2019, but all this person had to do was scroll down to see they made a posting on him.
Sorry I know I have many pet peeves obviously lol but we can add "asking In Pursuit why won't they publicize a case they've already publicized" to the list lol
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Post by ninja108 on Aug 20, 2020 22:01:34 GMT -5
Under the In Pursuit Facebook posting about still looking to locate fugitive Tamera Williams a lady who admitted to not even watching the episode posted "maybe he had it coming. Does anyone know why she did it?". Once again an ignorant response and once again the problem with female fugitive hypocrisy- whenever it's a female fugitive and male victim, there are always seems to be someone fishing for a reason to justify what the female did- apparently not just in child abduction cases but any cases. The male has to be abusive and no woman is pure evil- when we know that isn't true. Notice how whenever it's a male fugitive wanted for the murder of his wife or girlfriend no one asks the same question. Once again the number one goal I feel of this site is to protect women and children- but the hypocrisy when it comes to female fugitives and trying to justify their actions is mind-boggling. Some folks simply can't accept that yes,men commit most of the violent crimes in the world but that women can,do and have done the same violent crimes for reasons that have nothing to do with self-defense. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 5, 2020 4:15:29 GMT -5
A mini rant here although not technically AMW-related.
Currently Mildred Alexis Old Crow is still missing. Someone replied to a Facebook posting saying they read she was located and with her grandmother. Obviously that person was misinformed as Mildred is still on the FBI and missingkids.org website. It happens. What bothers me is a bunch of people liked/heart shaped her comment despite the fact there was no link or any sort of proof.
I've seen that a lot lately on Facebook where someone will post something like that or "the fugitive was caught" and as someone who has strict rules on this forum for declaring a resolution on a case here, I don't get why they see a stranger on the internet's comment with no proof whatsoever to back them up, no link, no specified reason for how they know a missing child was located or fugitive was caught, and they take their word as gospel. Sometimes they are right, but sometimes they aren't as well.
The 2016 Presidential election was influenced by Russian-propaganda posting fake news stories from fake news sites. So it's rather scary actually to me- if people will believe a comment without a link- imagine what they'd believe with a fake news link.
And in fairness, this happens everywhere not just on crime stories.. But for goodness sake people, use critical thinking skills.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 15, 2021 17:48:01 GMT -5
Well the revival of AMW hasn't actually happened yet and we already have the return of annoying/stupid comments on Facebook.
I'm not going to go over all of them, but I just wanted to say that someone posted trying to hit on Elizabeth Vargas. I mean seriously, I know she is a well-known journalist, but she definitely deserves respect.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 25, 2021 19:03:07 GMT -5
Racists I mean people are complaining AMW isn't saying the race of the suspects. I think it's pretty easy to tell what race by looking at the picture or video but that's just me.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 26, 2021 18:17:13 GMT -5
Racists I mean people are complaining AMW isn't saying the race of the suspects. I think it's pretty easy to tell what race by looking at the picture or video but that's just me. I saw that too. The robbers they featured last episode were both white and black in different cases. It wasn't difficult to tell at all. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 27, 2021 0:37:37 GMT -5
I have so many rants now that AMW's back but while I'm glad Philip Dent was captured here's another thing bugging me.
All you had to was look up Philip Dent and you'd find his Facebook profile.
People were posting the links and bragging that they "found his Facebook".
I never want to discourage People from sending in tips and it's nice people want to do the right thing, but do they really think police are that dumb that they wouldn't also know about his non-secret Facebook page?
I'm pretty sure if you could find it just by typing in "Phillip Dent Colorado", so could they.
Yes sometimes fugitives are dumb enough to log in to Facebook but that was a page Dent already had before going on the run.
Delve further fellow online sleuthers! Lol.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 27, 2021 0:46:59 GMT -5
Oh and I know we've complained about people refusing to watch AMW if John Walsh isnt hosting and not giving Elizabeth Vargas a chance. We love John Walsh but realize it's about the mission but I've also found the complete opposite- people who pretty much abandoned the mission when Fox I mean Lifetime cancelled AMW and now they're back out of nowhere wanting AMW to solve their old cold cases that they still remember from 1.0. It was ONLY AMW they watched and followed and ONLY AMW they showed up again for.
I'll give them a mulligan if they didn't have cable or didn't like The Hunt but where were these people otherwise the past eight years?
The Hunt and In Pursuit profiled some AMW cold cases already.
I've seen requests for not only AMW fugitives also profiled on The Hunt and/or In Pursuit but also fugitives already caught or fugitives whose cases were dismissed or fugitives who not to excuse their crimes- weren't even among the most sinister of the cases old AMW profiled.
I've seen requests to profile the Geezer bandit again.
Don't get me wrong- I've always stressed bank robberies are an underrated crime- even the ones with notes and no weapons. Those tellers are going to feel that terror for the rest of their lives. The Geezer bandit might seem amusing to some but he wasn't to the victims.
But we're really going to worry about him when there are more recent and solvable cases out there just to satisfy our nostalgia? (Admittedly I feel the Geezer bandit is a solvable case but compared to a recent 2020 case not as solvable).
I don't know if this why AMW 2.0 is going too heavy on the cold cases or not. We are all in agreement we like that they're doing cold cases but that they're doing too many. And I wonder if it's to "satisfy" the classic fans where some of them disappeared for eight years but now want them to do all the cold cases again instead of caring about crimes that happened between 2012-2021 now that the show is back.
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