update on kidnapped student

[fictional]

The department apparently takes this all Very Seriously. They have called, are reporting the incident, are concerned about suicide, etc. etc.

They have also discovered that said student's contact number is in fact, her boyfriend's (the alleged kidnapper).

Student is still MIA and has not responded.

Possibility 1: I am a cynical, horrible excuse for a compassionate human being, and this person is actually in phenomenal amounts of trouble and/or dead.

Possibility 2: I am a cynical, horrible excuse for a compassionate human being, and this person has seriously unleashed a can of worms upon themselves that I don't think they were intending to.

I feel kind of bad over the whole thing.

Comments

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't feel like a cynical, horrible excuse for a human being in case #2. It is of their own doing in that case, and relies upon not only your but others' compassion as well that they're trying to take advantage of.

Should it turn out to be case #1...yeah ok, might feel bad for having not believed them, but if you offered help or assistance there's not much more you could do. Don't beat yourself up.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You're totally right.

I am, however, really grateful that I didn't go with my first response of "How stupid do you think I am?" and instead went with the reporting it to the department, and counseling services.

That said though, I remember coming up with some pretty outlandish excuses for things when I was young - although none quite so offensive or egregious - because I was smarter. If it's all just lies, it's about to explode in their face, big time - and part of me (the delinquent) can't help but sympathize slightly. Very, very slightly.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

I encountered the same thing at my last employer, where we were going to yet again have to stay late and an employee claimed an injury to get out of it. That led to most of an hour going to paperwork, them having to make an evening run to a clinic to get checked out AND come back with paperwork, all of which went much later into the night than the extra 30 minutes we were asking for!

Ok, so very, very slight sympathy, but that's about it!!