::sigh::

Thirty minutes late to work today for NO DISCERNABLE REASON. I pulled onto I-59 at Deerfoot and everyone was at dead slow. The radio said something about a wreck after Chalkville Road, but I never saw it, if it indeed ever existed. The 5-mile-long clog didn't clear until after the big electronic reader board before I-459.

For once, I really couldn't get too exasperated with everyone's poor ability to drive and read at the same time causing them to slow down to two miles per hour, because there was a message on it about an Amber Alert. From the website, the information is that 14 year old Amber Danielle Shelton of Oneonta "is believed to be in the company of a man she met on the Internet, Michael John Humphrey. Humphrey is a white male, 32, of Headland, Alabama, 5 feet 11 inches, 195 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. He may be traveling in a 1995 maroon four-door Chevrolet Blazer bearing Alabama license plate 37A913W."

I just checked the Alabama Department of Public Safety website, though, and see that the alert has been cancelled, with the notation that the "FBI safely recovered Danielle 3/15/2005 in Midland City, Alabama."

Good for them, and this has apparently just happened, because there is still little information from the local media on it.
posted by Terry at 8:43:00 AM