Baby looks for his parents.

[cartesius]

Tsunami - unidentified child. Please forward.Thursday, 6. January 2005

Category : T'Internet

Before we go any further -- They found his parents already people!

Oh dear. It's started. Now how can we stop it?

I mentioned yesterday that I had had sight of an email bearing a picture of an unidentified child separated from his parents by the tsunami. I knew it would not be the last time I saw it. I have here a sample of the same email, now in its 10th iteration (there are clear signs that it has been forwarded 10 times). There are nearly 300 individuals named as recipients in all of the various iterations combined - an average of 30 each time the email is forwarded.

I guess we can be reasonably confident that not every recipient has also forwarded it 30 times, but many clearly have and so a huge number of people must now have seen at least one copy.

I am sure that people forwarding the email to everyone in their address books do so with the best of intentions but please... Could everyone stop it now?

This sort of reminds me of the tale of Craig Shergold.

There really is a Craig Shergold, and he did have cancer. In 1989 an appeal was made on behalf of this then 9-year-old English boy afflicted with a terminal brain tumor. Young Craig wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for having received the most greeting cards. By 1990, 16 million cards had arrived, and his wish had come true. (According to the 1997 edition of that book, by May 1991 he had collected 33 million.)

Ah, but that was then, and this is now. Shergold's tumor was successfully removed in March 1991, and this lad (born 24 June 1979) is now a healthy young man. However, like the implements in the Sorceror's Apprentice, the cards and letters have proved impossible to stop -- they just keep rolling in...

http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-68DJR3

[Гая]

ЭТА ДЕВОЧКА НАХОДИТСЯ В ГОСПИТАЛЕ ГОРОДА ПХУКЕТ.

ОНА ПОТЕРЯЛА ПАМЯТЬ И НЕ ПОМНИТ НИЧЕГО И НЕ ГОВОРИТ ИЗ-ЗА ШОКА.

РАЗОШЛИТЕ, ПОЖАЛУЙСТА, ЕЕ ФОТОГРАФИЮ ВСЕМ СВОИМ ЗНАКОМЫМ, МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ КТО-ТО ЕЁ УЗНАЕТ!

[cartesius]

ЭТА ДЕВОЧКА НАХОДИТСЯ В ГОСПИТАЛЕ ГОРОДА ПХУКЕТ.

ОНА ПОТЕРЯЛА ПАМЯТЬ И НЕ ПОМНИТ НИЧЕГО И НЕ ГОВОРИТ ИЗ-ЗА ШОКА.

РАЗОШЛИТЕ, ПОЖАЛУЙСТА, ЕЕ ФОТОГРАФИЮ ВСЕМ СВОИМ ЗНАКОМЫМ, МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ  КТО-ТО ЕЁ УЗНАЕТ!

эта девочка немка, ее зовут София Михл. Ее родителей зовут Норберт и Еделтрауд Михл. Она кстати находится уже в Германии у своих ближайших родственников в Гессене. Тела родителей до сиx пор не найдены

:shljapa:

http://www.phuket-inter-hospital.co.th/siriroj.html