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Foiled Abduction at Sam's Club (Variant)

Final of three email variants of an old urban legend

Email example contributed by Carol Sikler, 08/17/99:

Sent: August 10, 1999 9:15 PM
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Don't know if its true .... but stranger things have happened....

Wanted to share something that happened today while shopping at Sam's club. A mother was leaning over looking for meat and turned around to find her 4 yr. old daughter was missing, I was standing there right beside her, well she was calling her daughter and no luck. I asked a man who worked at Sam's to announce it over the loud speaker for Katie. Well, he did, and let me say he walked past me when I asked and went to a pole where there Was a phone right there to make his announcement for all doors, and gates to be locked a code something's they locked all the doors at once? This took all of 3 min after I asked the guy to do this. They found the little girl 5 min later crunched in a bathroom stall, her head was half shaved, and she was dressed in her underwear with a bag of clothes, a razor, and wig sitting on the floor besides her. Whoever this person was, took the little girl, brought her into the bathroom, shaved half her head, Undressed her in a matter of less than 10 min. Make me shake to no end. Please keep an eye out for your kids when in shopping places. It only took a few minutes to do all of this, another 5 min and she would have been out the door...I am still in shock some sick person could do this, let alone in a matter of minutes...The little girl is fine..thank god for fast workers who didn't take any chances.

Thanks for reading..It's "CODE ADAM" ~~~~means missing child

There's a story behind why they use this name. The man that hosts "Unsolved Mysteries" TV series, had his son ~Adam~ abducted from him while shopping. Unfortunately he was not as lucky as the woman in this story. His son Adam was found years later dismembered. Thus WalMart and Sam's adopted the name "CODE ADAM" to alert all employees that a child was missing in the store, for an employee to cover all exits to the store until the child is found. This is also how "people greeters" got placed at the entrance and exits to Walmart.

KEEP AN EYE ON THOSE KIDS!!

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