AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 12: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th

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     She found twice as many reports   
from that site, then we got from the   
police and animal welfare reports,     
combined.                              
     “When I’m working downtown, I     
don’t see a lot of missing pet posters,
except every once in a great, great    
while,” Mouse said thoughtful, and then
asked me, “how about when you're out on
your daily patrols? How many do you    
see?”                                  
     That switched another light on in 
my head, missing pets!                 
     “I see a lot of them. Sometimes   
they come in batches and sometimes     
those batches move around, but a week- 
end or day don't go by that I don't see
at least one, somewhere. I should keep 
track of that.”                        
     Those numbers, along with the     
numbers Mouse got from that animal     
abuse website, helped give us a general
idea, where the hot spots were, and    
where we should concentrate our patrols
next year.                             
     After thanking Mouse and Pee Wee  
for their help, I went home and looked 
through the newspaper for computer     
deals. I wasn’t as good at this com-   
puter stuff as Mouse was, but I had    
used them before.                      
     A few days later, I got one, and  
after a couple more days, finally got  
it online.                             
     Once I did that, I immediately    
went to the search engine that Mouse   
had used. They offered a whole slew of 
services, if you got an account with   
them.                                  
     The account was free, and one of  
those services was a kind of newspaper 
clipping service. It was similar to the
old school clipping service, except    
they were electronic links instead of  
newspaper clippings. Click on the link 
they sent you, and an online news      
article would pop up.                  
     After creating an e-mail account, 
I learned how to write html, and used  
another of their services to set up a  
simple missing person website.         
     The clipping service was an       
interesting adventure. All it needed   
was a keyword, or keywords, and then it
would search through thousands of      
online English language newspapers from
all over the world.                    
     It did this continuously, until it
found an article that had a word that  
matched my keyword, or keywords, and   
then, it would send me a link to it in 
an e-mail.                             
     The first and only keyword that I 
ever used was “missing”.               



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