According to KCTV5, the suspect in an attempted kidnapping last week in Overland Park was “described as 6′ tall, heavy-set, and was wearing a ball cap and a dark heavy coat.”
Let’s see, 6′ tall? That’s me. Ball cap? Me. Dark coat? Me. Heavy set? Okay, now we’re getting personal. Sure, I could lose 10 or 20 pounds, but who couldn’t?
These kind of maddeningly incomplete descriptions are something of the norm in Kansas City.
In local reporting and just about everywhere for that matter. Although we’re told that the suspect is a “man”–male anti-discrimination organizations need to step up their lobbying efforts–It would, of course, help to know whether the suspect was young or old, black or white, Hispanic or non-Hispanic.
According to the victim, this generic male grabbed her around the neck near the Kelly Park Apartments in the 13200 block of Hardy Street and forced her to drive to a nearby field. There, the car struck a culvert and caught fire. The woman then ran from her abductor and found refuge at a nearby home.
In the week since the abduction, I have been unable to find any new information on the case. With the thousands of other likely suspects out there, the O.P. police have yet to find their way to my house.
Fortunately, I have an alibi. I’m just hoping it holds up.
Rich Steele is a citizen journalist and head of the NSAAS (Non-Smokers Against Anti-Smoking).
If you don’t hear about skin color you know what to assume.
Oftimes the “stranger” abduction turns into something totally different — more like an “acquaintance” abduction, where the assailed changes their mind about pressing charges.
Off topic side note. I read a tweet from former Star columnist Jason Whitlock Jan 13 that he recently got out of bankruptcy. I guess Fox Sports was only giving him bloggers pay after all.
810 scoops 610 once again…