It all started when gay rights activist Adam Hoover posted a cryptic tweet to his Twitter page:
Please help me I’m in the trunk of my ford escort red 2000 gbh 2812. They said they are going to kill my family… http://t.co/TkEdKHq11P
— Adam Hoover (@h12adam) March 3, 2015
The tweet was sent at 12:30 a.m. on March 3. The message was also posted to Hoover’s Facebook profile, and included his mother’s phone number and his family’s address:
Hoover is the co-President of Marriage Equality Ohio and self-proclaimed “equal rights fighter.” His cry for help, in addition to being retweeted more than 1,000 times, sparked an immediate search around the Cincinnati area. Officials claim multiple agencies were involved in the effort.
An hour later, police discovered Hoover’s car abandoned on the side of the road near the Ohio-Indiana border. When they approached the vehicle, Hoover was reportedly seen exiting from a nearby building. Police say he was unharmed. They now believe the whole kidnapping was a hoax.
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Hoover’s Twitter page is still active, but his Facebook profile has been set to private. The most recent tweet on Hoover’s Twitter page appears to be written by his mother, Anna, who says she is “trying my best to help my son.”
Police have not released Hoover’s motive for faking his own abduction. He now faces preliminary charges of making false alarms, according to the local sheriff’s office.
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Lvng1Tor
couple of scenarios…first and least likely, he suffers from some real mental illness that compelled him to do this and what he needs is quality medical care and rest…..
Second, Addiction, which would need same treatment as above……OR, most likely….
He suffers from “affluenza” like too many young people thinking this would launch him into fame or prominence, a book deal, get on Ellen or just a ton more “followers”. He deserves the public shaming, a stiff fine, tons of community service, to have his name forever linked to this through google searches and a swift kick in the a@@.
QJ201
…because people stopped paying attention to him
demented
Most probably, he is just desperate for people to pay attention to him.
Giancarlo85
He wanted attention… but to go to these lengths… there has to be something wrong here. He needs quality medical care for sure.
Arcamenel
He needs to be put in jail, tired of these white boys pulling this crap and everyone making all the excuse in the world for them like a freaking “affluenza”. Give me a break.
Cam
Here is a thought for his friends. And maybe I missed something but,
Did nobody ask “If he can post to Facebook and Twitter why hasn’t he called the police from the same phone?”
As for why he did it, hell, it would be nice if as a minority community or an oppressed community, or whatever, that we could be free from attention seeking douchebags. But we aren’t. End of story.
The one difference is, when people do it from an empowered community rather than just creating a stir on twitter and wasting some police time, they can get appointed to be John McCain’s Vice-Presidential pick, or host “The Apprentice” which is far more dangerous. 😉
o.codone
drama queen. there goes his entire career.
ApolloDionysus
For a country infested with vicious bloodthirsty rednecks with no human empathy, we sure do get a lot of whiny queens who feel the need to fabricate instances of discrimination for some mysterious and illogical reason
Billysees
@Giancarlo85:
“He wanted attention… but to go to these lengths… there has to be something wrong here.”
That makes sense to me…this whole thing is strange…he blew his respectability out the window.
Ogre Magi
It really pisses me off when people in our community do this. I say throw him to the christians