Re: Without a Trace: General Question


cloud dreamer wrote:
> bklyntv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > SpencerDogg wrote:
> >
> >>On Jan 31 2006 3:28 PM, bklyntv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I thought one couldn't make a missing person's report on an adult until
> >>>they are missing 48 hours when there's no evidence of foul play.
> >>>
> >>>But again and again the team is on the scene right away. A recent
> >>>example, the teacher who ran off with the kid was being investigated 12
> >>>hours missing. But there was no indication of foul play, just the
> >>>school's report she'd not shown for her morning classes.
> >>>
> >>>Are they just stretching the truth for dramatic effect? Or is 48 hours
> >>>not really the rule?
> >>
> >>It's a TV show.
> >
> >
> > And you're on a tv board, what's your point?
> >
>
> He's telling you to suspend just an ounce of belief for the sake of the
> drama.



So, to answer my question, they ARE taking dramatic lisence you are
saying? That in real life they do not dispatch a half dozen FBI agents
when someone is missing 12 hours?

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