I look out the window, and the snow covers the grass like a dense blanket.The grass is being suffocated, as it lays beneath the wet, thick, heavy snow.Then however, a glimmer of hope, as the rain plummets down, crashing into the snow, as the snow melts in the moist warm air.When I wake up, and see the snow, all gone.Finally, the green grass is breathing, free from the suffocating snow, soaking up the sun. However this won’t last, as a fresh thin layer of pure white snow covers the ground over night, making the grass shiver with fear.The grass grasps for its last gulp of air, praying that this is just some nightmare, but it is to no avail as they get blinded by the stunning snow.All hope is lost for another 2 and a half months, as more snow piles on time after time.
It all starts out when your mom forgets to buy gas when she comes home from work.So when you’re out and about, she stops to buy gas.Since it’s scorching outside, she decides that she is going to leave the car on while she goes in to pay.You and your brother are arguing inside, when you hear the car door open.You both close your mouths in the blink of an eye, and pray that she didn’t hear you.However, this isn’t your mom in the car.It’s a total stranger, with a gun in his tattooed hand.The next thing you know, you’re speeding down the highway, and that gun that was in the man’s hand, is pointed into your neck.Your worst nightmare has just become your reality.
This happens to kids all over the world, up to an estimated 25,000 times a year.Even then, those are just the reported kidnappings, and only one tenth of the kidnappings are reported.In the last 6 years, there has been a 100% increase of the number of reported kidnappings.Not all of those end up in a happy ending though.Only 40% of the people kidnapped were returned safe and uninjured.The sad thing about that is that about half of the number of people kidnapped is between the ages 4 and 11, and 74% are girls.Every 40 seconds a child is kidnapped or goes missing in the United States.These numbers are way too high, and us as the United States of America need to fix that.
Now many people think that these stories they hear are just in books like Danger in the Desert but they can easily happen.Such as the story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped when she was just 11 years old.Just on her way to school, she was snatched up by a grown man.Kept in a little backyard in a tent for nearly two decades, no one ever knew that she was there.She was raped, time after time, and gave birth twice, the first when she was only 14.Thankfully, someone finally noticed the weird activity going on, and found that the kidnapper had a history of being a sex offender.During questioning, he turned himself in.This is one of the lucky cases, but as you can imagine, it could have turned a lot worse, and I’m sure you’ve heard other bad stories on the news.
While you may think that this will never happen to you, it can to easily.Try to keep your guard up, even though the police are trying to do everything they can to stop kidnappings and carjacking, as well parents.You never know what could happen.Just a routine trip to your friends and back, could turn out to be your last night alive.
