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This girl didn't just run away to met her boyfriend. She ran away to the Middle east to meet some dude she met on Myspace.
DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and was headed home Friday, an FBI spokesman said.

U.S. officials persuaded Katherine Lester to take the return flight from Amman, FBI Special Agent Robert Beeckman said from the agency's Detroit office.

Katherine had disappeared from her home in Gilford, in eastern Michigan, on Monday and apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, said Tuscola County Undersheriff James Jashinske.

The sheriff's department contacted the FBI, which traced the teen to a flight from New York to Amman, Jashinske said. On Thursday night, her family received word from U.S. officials that she had been stopped as she arrived in Amman en route to Tel Aviv, Israel.

Katherine's mother, Shawn Lester, said her daughter had persuaded her in April to help her get a passport so she could go on a two-week vacation to Canada with a friend's family.

On Sunday, they drove to a bus station for that trip, but the family didn't show up. Shawn Lester said she called them, learned there was no trip and brought her daughter home. The next day, Katherine was gone.

Jashinske said it remained unclear whether any law had been violated. An online conversation with a 16-year-old is not illegal in Michigan, but solicitation for sex would be. He said deputies confiscated the family's home computer and were taking it to the FBI's Bay City office Friday for analysis.

FBI spokesman Brian Endrizal declined to provide any details and would not comment on the man's identity or background.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/09/myspace.runaway.ap/index.html

The internet gets a bad rap because of idiots like this. She deserves to be chopped up and never found.

Just goes to show you can't protect idiots from their own stupidity.

Sometimes I wonder if we should just let darwanism happen ... frigging god there is being a stupid teenager and then there is being a STUPID teenager

The internet gets a bad rap because of idiots like this. She deserves to be chopped up and never found.


*backs away slowly*

Ah myspace, the catalogue of ridiculously stupid young people for all the psychos out there.

Ah myspace, the catalogue of ridiculously stupid young people for all the psychos out there.

Why do you think it's Czardas' favourite site? :p

This is just ridiculous

where did she get the money for the plane ride? I assume all the way to Jordan is expensive

This is just ridiculous

where did she get the money for the plane ride? I assume all the way to Jordan is expensive

By prostituting herself to other pervs on myspace maybe?

This is just ridiculous

where did she get the money for the plane ride? I assume all the way to Jordan is expensive
Probably the dude.

Probably the dude.
I dunno

if he wanted sex that bad, he could've bough a thousand prostitues with that money

I dunno

if he wanted sex that bad, he could've bough a thousand prostitues with that money
How much do you think he could get for a 16-year-old girl on the black market?

I dunno

if he wanted sex that bad, he could've bough a thousand prostitues with that money

But not necessarily a teenage girl he could keep.

Don't forget there might never have been a guy in Jordan.

Don't forget there might never have been a guy in Jordan.
Some guy in her high school decided to play a prank and say he was from Jordan to get her to take a long trip for no reason?

Some guy in her high school decided to play a prank and say he was from Jordan to get her to take a long trip for no reason?
Frigging evil but possible

Or he could be a genuine man who got on with her...

He's not automatically evil just because he's from the Middle East. :rolleyes:

Or he could be a genuine man who got on with her...

He's not automatically evil just because he's from the Middle East. :rolleyes:
of course not, but he is 25, and she is 16, makes him a bit of a pervert

Or he could be a genuine man who got on with her...

He's not automatically evil just because he's from the Middle East. :rolleyes:
Who said he was? in fact so far the only thing brought up about his ethnicity is just because he is halfway around the fucking world but managed to convince a 16 year old girl to fly there

of course not, but he is 25, and she is 16, makes him a bit of a pervert
I might say so if he was 45, or 55 etc, but a nine year gap isn't that big.

Hell, there's 8 and a half years between my parents, and they got together when my Mum was just 17.

Who said he was? in fact so far the only thing brought up about his ethnicity is just because he is halfway around the fucking world but managed to convince a 16 year old girl to fly there
Two people meeting up in this internet age is hardly the most controversial thing in the world. The only difference in this case is that he is from the Middle East.

Some guy in her high school decided to play a prank and say he was from Jordan to get her to take a long trip for no reason?
Not necessarily her high school. And how is that anymore unlikely than someone in Jordan getting an American girl to fly over there?

Not to mention the mother is retarded for letting her daughter convince her she needed a passport to get into Canada. A minor only needs a birth certificate and a letter from a guardian and a statement of travel under freewill from the minor to get into Canada from the US. A passport won't be needed until 2008, I believe.

Not to mention the mother is retarded for letting her daughter convince her she needed a passport to get into Canada. A minor only needs a birth certificate and a letter from a guardian and a statement of travel under freewill from the minor to get into Canada from the US. A passport won't be needed until 2008, I believe.
you are quite right, I belive the passport was all part of the plan

Two people meeting up in this internet age is hardly the most controversial thing in the world. The only difference in this case is that he is from the Middle East.
No the difference in this case is that the girl was stupid enough to fly out of country across the frigging world to meet someone on myspace

And everything anyone has yet said to me would hold true if it was norway instead of Jordan

Dont go looking for racism where none exists.

Some guy in her high school decided to play a prank and say he was from Jordan to get her to take a long trip for no reason?

Best. Prank. Evar!

No the difference in this case is that the girl was stupid enough to fly out of country across the frigging world to meet someone on myspace

And everything anyone has yet said to me would hold true if it was norway instead of Jordan

Dont go looking for racism where none exists.
If you personally intended nothing then there was nothing to be defensive about.

However, seeing as 'all Muslim's are evil!!!!!' threads are hardly a rare occurance, I don't feel any need to withdraw the remark.

If you personally intended nothing then there was nothing to be defensive about.

However, seeing as 'all Muslim's are evil!!!!!' threads are hardly a rare occurance, I don't feel any need to withdraw the remark.
Just because plenty of them exist does not mean that all threads that have a party that happens to have Muslims as an actor in some way them are racist.

That sort of stereotyping is as useless and stupid as “all Muslims are stupid” stereotyping.

So far in this thread all I have seen is exasperation at her stupidity along with her parent’s stupidity for getting her a passport and allowing her to leave the country. She is lucky nothing happened to her either because of the man (lots of myspace contact stories end like that not just cause he is from Jordan supposedly) or something happened to her on the way.

Just because plenty of them exist does not mean that all threads that have a party that happens to have Muslims as an actor in some way them are racist.
My comment was that he's not automatically evil because he is from the Middle East, which I believe is an accurate statement. I did not say that you are racists.

If you choose to take offence at such a comment, I can't stop you.

If you personally intended nothing then there was nothing to be defensive about.

However, seeing as 'all Muslim's are evil!!!!!' threads are hardly a rare occurance, I don't feel any need to withdraw the remark.
I don;t see what you';re trying to say, you seem to asumme that because he is from the Middle East, the OP is triying to put them in a bad light just by posting this thread. I'm sure he would've done the same had the girl gone to French Indochina

My comment was that he's not automatically evil because he is from the Middle East, which I believe is an accurate statement. I did not say that you are racists.

If you choose to take offence at such a comment, I can't stop you.
The original quote maybe not but this one

Two people meeting up in this internet age is hardly the most controversial thing in the world. The only difference in this case is that he is from the Middle East.

Seems to have missed the mark … only difference is not that he is from the Middle East

The bigger difference in this case is that she managed to flee out of country (not just out of country but over seas).

I dunno

if he wanted sex that bad, he could've bough a thousand prostitues with that money

Maybe he has a fetish for 16 year old americans?:)

Myspace=yellow pages for sex offenders!:)

The original quote maybe not but this one

Seems to have missed the mark … only difference is not that he is from the Middle East

The bigger difference in this case is that she managed to flee out of country (not just out of country but over seas).
I was simply defending what I said. I certainly wasn't trying to cause offence.

Perhaps I was a little trigger happy in my defence of the guy and came in before the comments were made, but I certainly stand by my original comment. I'd be surprised if this thread survives if no one makes an 'Arab scum' type comment at some point.

Hell, there's 8 and a half years between my parents, and they got together when my Mum was just 17.

Dad's a perv. :p

I was simply defending what I said. I certainly wasn't trying to cause offence.

Perhaps I was a little trigger happy in my defence of the guy and came in before the comments were made, but I certainly stand by my original comment. I'd be surprised if this thread survives if no one makes an 'Arab scum' type comment at some point.
Now that I can agree with :) those trolls will be on their way in eventually

Dad's a perv. :p
Apparently he was accused of being a 'cradle snatcher' by the Bishop at the time (he is a Priest).

I also once amused my mother telling her I wouldn't have approved of their relationship if I'd been alive at the time. She called me a prude. :rolleyes:

Why not her father?
Because according to the article her mother is the one that got her the pastport

Because according to the article her mother is the one that got her the pastport
Ya, I got that now. Foolish me.

Apparently he was accused of being a 'cradle snatcher' by the Bishop at the time (he is a Priest).

I also once amused my mother telling her I wouldn't have approved of their relationship if I'd been alive at the time. She called me a prude. :rolleyes:


Only cuz she slept -- and, I assume, is still sleeping -- with the perv.

Apparently he was accused of being a 'cradle snatcher' by the Bishop at the time (he is a Priest).

I also once amused my mother telling her I wouldn't have approved of their relationship if I'd been alive at the time. She called me a prude. :rolleyes:
seems to me liek your mother is a hippie

Ya, I got that now. Foolish me.
Though if the father was involved in the decision too he absolutely should be rebuked

I stripped my pictures off of MySpace months ago. I'd often get messages from 30+ year olds requesting my measurements. I'd reply "Dude, I'm 16."

Common response: Excellent.

Only cuz she slept -- and, I assume, is still sleeping -- with the perv.
That's information I neither know nor have any desire to know. :rolleyes:

Only cuz she slept -- and, I assume, is still sleeping -- with the perv.
I dont think the poor kid wants to be reminded that his parents are banging each other, it seems most people dont

I stripped my pictures off of MySpace months ago. I'd often get messages from 30+ year olds requesting my measurements. I'd reply "Dude, I'm 16."

Common response: Excellent.


EW! I think I need to shower now.

I dont think the poor kid wants to be reminded that his parents are banging each other, it seems most people dont
Kid? Kid?

I'll give you kid.

*Shakes fist*

Kid? Kid?

I'll give you kid.

*Shakes fist*
kid/teenager/adult/person/whatever

kid/teenager/adult/person/whatever
'Whatever' is probably closest to the truth. :p

I dont think the poor kid wants to be reminded that his parents are banging each other, it seems most people dont

C'mon, old-people sex is teh funnay! :D

EW! I think I need to shower now.
Showers are nice. One guy asked me to film myself showering.

Showers are nice. One guy asked me to film myself showering.

'k, now I just threw up in my mouth.

No offense to you, of course.

Showers are nice. One guy asked me to film myself showering.
sexy

sexy

*slap*

I stripped my pictures off of MySpace months ago. I'd often get messages from 30+ year olds requesting my measurements. I'd reply "Dude, I'm 16."

Common response: Excellent.

So what exactly are you measurements anyways?

/kidding

'k, now I just threw up in my mouth.

No offense to you, of course.
I haven't thrown up in years. Last time I vomited was... the night before the Canadian Federal elections in 2004. I have no idea why I remember that...

I haven't thrown up in years. Last time I vomited was... the night before the Canadian Federal elections in 2004. I have no idea why I remember that...

I hurled last night. Got some bad burgers at a cook-out. :(

*slap*
Oh no you didn't!

*slaps back*

This girl didn't just run away to met her boyfriend. She ran away to the Middle east to meet some dude she met on Myspace.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/09/myspace.runaway.ap/index.html
Idiots make life entertaining.

Oh no you didn't!

*slaps back*

Ooh! Harder! HARDER!

So what exactly are you measurements anyways?

/kidding
Uh, 34-26-36

/kidding

Uh, 34-26-36

/kidding

Thems is some wide child-rearin' hips!

/also kidding

Ooh! Harder! HARDER!
ok, gonna stop now...

ok, gonna stop now...

Oh, bugger.

Oh, bugger.
Yeah, that was a bit wrong.

Yeah, that was a bit wrong.

Just a bit? I was going for more than that. ;)

Internet makes you do stupid things! Tee-hee! :p

Just a bit? I was going for more than that. ;)
Wrong like Internet-dwelling pedophiles?

Just a bit? I was going for more than that. ;)
heh

Wrong like Internet-dwelling pedophiles?

Crap, Franberry's a young'un, too? :eek:

Crap, Franberry's a young'un, too? :eek:
That's not what I meant.

That's not what I meant.

Oh, well, no, I wasn't going for that level of wrong, obviously. Yeesh!

Crap, Franberry's a young'un, too? :eek:
hehehehe

hehehehe

*runs*

*runs*
the police is coming for you!
Pedophile!

the police is coming for you!
Pedophile!

Yeah, that's me. At 34, I find 16-year-olds really hot. :rolleyes:

Hell, I didn't find 'em hot when I was 16.

This thread is turning into jail bait central.

*runs as well*

This thread is turning into jail bait central.

*runs as well*

Hey, you've got strippers and blow? I'm with you! :D

My comment was that he's not automatically evil because he is from the Middle East, which I believe is an accurate statement. I did not say that you are racists.

If you choose to take offence at such a comment, I can't stop you.
I hope your child never leaves your country to meet some guy twice her age. If she had gone to any other country my criticism would be the same.

My comment was that he's not automatically evil because he is from the Middle East, which I believe is an accurate statement. I did not say that you are racists.

If you choose to take offence at such a comment, I can't stop you.
he is automatically evil because he tried to draw a child away from her parents and brring her to a foreign country. You don't do that, do you?

That girl looks pretty hot...

of course not, but he is 25, and she is 16, makes him a bit of a pervert

..and it's ok, 'cause I'm 24.

That girl looks pretty hot

Are your eyes alright? She's squirrely and horribly unattractive.

I think your keyboard is screwy, Potarius. It replaced a "t" with "rribly unnattractive". :confused: Maybe something spilled on it?

I think your keyboard is screwy, Potarius. It replaced a "t" with "rribly unnattractive". :confused: Maybe something spilled on it?

You're saying she's not unattractive? We are talking about the girl of the topic post, aren't we?