Wait, are you kidding? She was kidnapped by a crazy old guy. She had no idea how far she could go if she ran for it, and if she would survive that. Life isn’t an action movie. There’s a lot more to escaping abduction and false imprisonment than feasible physical logistics, and the possibility of failing and getting…

Have you watched the clip of the Anderson Cooper interview in this thread? She addresses your points. Also she was raped, multiple times a day. How much more detail do we really need?

I saw a show this morning about a mother and daughter who were kidnapped for months. The mother kept taking the rapes and living with her daughter, chained in a closet. But when he took them out somewhere, they just couldn’t run at first. They just couldn’t do it. They were that afraid of him.

I’m an atheist and my observation has been that Smart is one tough cookie, not some brain-washed religious freak. You might want to inform yourself a bit more about her before making another dumb ass comment.

All of Utah has rallied around her, and she’s made some very feminist public statements. Say what you want about the LDS church, but this girl has become her own woman, with her own voice.

No, but it could. Better safe than sorry. Plus, it’s getting to be very annoying now that people are starting to do it everywhere.

Well, for one thing, a dead tree can decompose and become a vital part of the forest ecosystem. The metal lock? Not so much.

Yeah, all of those stories are 100% made up.

There are wired vibrators and there are battery operated vibrators. There are no vibrators that simply have exposed random wires that are then affixed to various power sources like speaker wire...

In the common vernacular all such devices, powered and not are referred to as dildos.

Jalopnik; where discussions on the feasibility of some guys daughter’s “marital aid” being wired to her car turns into an introductory class of electrical engineering.

“the detective in charge told my the evidence collected the 1st day from our repo lot was the ex-girlfriends severed head the suspect put in the trunk of his car.”

Your story sounds as believable as any of these.

This one time I walked in on my husband and some hooker going at it in the back of his van. They were doing some freaky stuff and had this dildo hard-wired through the seat or some crazy crap. What a bastard! I pulled out my gun and fired 8 shots. 6 shots put holes in the van and I have no idea where the other 2 went.

The dildo story does not make much sense.

I always find when people say that they’re neither pro-life nor pro-choice, they actually mean “I am pro-life except in these very specific circumstances, and even then the lady should feel bad and consider other options.”

The problem is there is no fucking grey area.

“a 15-year-old organization that promotes respectful dialogue around abortion, but doesn’t call itself pro-choice (From their FAQ: “We don’t choose sides. Pro-voice is an alternative to divisive political rhetoric, and its home is in the grey area between pro-life and pro-choice.”)

Yes but they will have their abortions on the down low, then go right back to vilifying others who get one.