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Ok_Government_2062 t1_j0pp58d wrote

It's odd that this is news. People ghost their family all the time.

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BazilBroketail t1_j0pq4mi wrote

Yeah... this just seems like rich overbearing parents got a plug at CNN. Their statement was weird, "we thank the media for the coverage of Kenny or he never would have seen the reports" or whatever.

Weird all around.

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Nervous-Ear-8594 t1_j0qna9m wrote

He even tells them to stop contacting the news. They won’t tell anyone what he said because it’s probably family drama. Probably fell in love there or something happened and he didn’t want them involved. He’s a grown adult, though. And reporting someone missing after just a couple days like this is just dumb, it’s one thing if they always respond to their phone and go to work everyday and suddenly stop, it’s another if you know someone left the country but is scared when you don’t hear from them after a while.

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silversatire t1_j0r28f2 wrote

It was more than them just reporting him missing. They had a website in English and French, were having flyers put up, the whole thing.

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Formergr OP t1_j0r2m6h wrote

And also criticized French law enforcement for not searching hard enough. Talk about fulfilling all stereotypes of the entitled American. Not helpful, dude.

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washington_jefferson t1_j0slurj wrote

> It was more than them just reporting him missing.

In the article it says his fellow classmates were the first to report him missing to the authorities. So, it was not his parents initially.

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veggeble t1_j0rkyep wrote

> it’s one thing if they always respond to their phone and go to work everyday and suddenly stop

Isn’t that pretty much what he did? He stopped responding to his phone and suddenly stopped attending classes.

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HerpToxic t1_j0txzor wrote

>His fellow students reported him missing on November 29, prompting an investigation.

He's been "missing" for 20 days...that's barely anything.

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DeathByGoldfish t1_j0qg8j1 wrote

CNN should be fucking ashamed for giving this attention.

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_j0pne9p wrote

"Dad! Stopping telling the news on me!"

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Nij-megan t1_j0rzb15 wrote

American parents have to be so overbearing, poor kid couldn’t be an adult without them freaking out. He was much safer in France and Spain, should have stayed longer.

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Egmonks t1_j0pnmjw wrote

Kid found some play and wandered off with it. Now he has to come home and the fun is over.

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Turtle-power2021 t1_j0psp00 wrote

He probably threw away airtags they hid in his luggage to track him and they freaked out.

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justforthearticles20 t1_j0qdy4l wrote

Spoiled White Rich Kid goes to Spain to get Laid. Parents send all of international Law Enforcement to drag him home.

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johnnySix t1_j0qip7l wrote

Sounds like a case of affluenza

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sid-darth t1_j0q9ump wrote

Kids go missing in this country every day but the FBI rarely goes into investigation mode that quickly. Rich and white gets you perks.

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Bellsar_Ringing t1_j0qsjf3 wrote

If this is a Hallmark movie, by Christmas Day he will have realized the pretty foreign girl is his true love, escaped from his parents, and burned all of his bridges getting back to her in time.

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Bitter_Director1231 t1_j0u7xim wrote

He went to Genovia, looking to hook up with a princess who wanted to rebel against her royal lineage.

Then he had to tell he who he actually was.

Hallmark Cinematic Universe all the way

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dog_eat_god t1_j0uavup wrote

Nah, for Hallmark movies, the charming american rescues the pretty girl from the evil socialist Europoor country and brings her back to a hero's welcome in Buttfuck, Kansas. Stars and Stripes flags on every house, a parade, marching bands,......

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macabre_trout t1_j0rjl6i wrote

Reading about this case, I thank God that my college study abroad trip was in 2001 when no one in my family had cell phones. I was gone for two months and I think I called my family a total of three times. 😄

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BarracudaLower4211 t1_j0s1bbu wrote

Ditto. I skipped my last 4 weeks of immersion classes and rode the train for a month. It was 12 credits of independent study. I submitted no documentation I actually attended class and was never asked. Got a 4.0

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washington_jefferson t1_j0sl5xm wrote

That's pretty wild. I had a cell phone in 1995 when I was 15. I think I only knew a couple of people who didn't have cell phones when I went to college in 1998. That said, when I lived and/or worked in Germany in the early 2000's, I'd have to use my German cell phone to call my parents on their land line. US rates were super high on cell phones back then for overseas calls.

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Bitter_Director1231 t1_j0u7rms wrote

Sounds odd. Sounds like an over entitled rich white American family. I'm sure he wasn't in any danger. He wasnt really missing, he went off the grid for awhile doing dumb shit he would be embarrassed about.

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Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j0uc8aq wrote

Mom went thru Red Cross just to get a hold of me in Ramadi 2005, annoyed chain of command till I reminded them I'm a fucking adult in a warzone, neither she or I are a Dependent of the other according to DEERS, and I had cut her off from my life.

Dude went off the grid to get high/laid. Helicopter parents went Interpol, lulz.

Congratulations Kenny, you will be remembered as the Manchild on the Milk Carton.

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Formergr OP t1_j0ulsqp wrote

> Mom went thru Red Cross just to get a hold of me in Ramadi 2005, annoyed chain of command till I reminded them I'm a fucking adult in a warzone, neither she or I are a Dependent of the other according to DEERS

Aaaah sorry you had to go through that in the middle of everything. Damn, Red Cross, huh?

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Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j0uoxdp wrote

Weird moment between the carnage.

They thought I was a nice sheltered boy.

No, I was just finding out who I was becoming. A weird blend of geek and grunt.

I watched the adults around me and picked which traits I aspired to and to make my own mistakes.

I looked middle school my first tour (125lbs, SXS, and by the end of the tour, I fit XSXS), and they had fun leveraging that appearance for anything dog & pony morale related, as I had this weird magnetism of grannies feeling bad for me.

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ZiaZaddle t1_j0vznfv wrote

After seeing this on the news I immediately thought "this is just another case of overbearing parents, or the kid is just wanting to live his life" I came to reddit to confirm my thoughts. Yup. Wild--he's literally an adult, let him live.

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einsteinvisaholder t1_j0u73qg wrote

They thought he said he went to a town in France but they misunderstood the name and he actually went to Spain and then stopped responding to them. I would be concerned also.

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