Person Missing

 

This woman Brianna Sutherland is currently missing from an indigenous community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The organization that shared this poster stated that she is 5 foot 7 inches tall and weighs 475 pounds. 

Someone commented, “She’s hard to miss!” To which someone else responded, “Totally uncalled for!”  

Yeah it is uncalled for, and mean. But then quite a few people commented that she is camping out in a specific location. It’s more than enough people commenting this to be believable. 

But here’s the thing, and I’m not saying this to be mean or make fun of her in any way- I’m just pointing out a fact. You wouldn’t notice her as the woman on the missing person posters if she *didn’t* weigh almost 500 pounds. If you were driving by and saw someone camping under a bridge or whatever, you’d probably just think or say “homeless person” and move on. The fact that so many people are making the connection is *because* she’s hard to miss. I’m just saying!

In any city, any state or province, in any country and in any point in time, a person who is a missing person might be living under a bridg, and we would never know it, even if we approached them to help them out. Most of them probably look so different from their age progression photos, and the chances are that most people driving by that bridge haven’t seen all missing person posters anyway. I’m a firm believer that there are so many of them just hiding in plain sight- which is easier to do if you’re of average size. 

Luckily, it looks like Brianna is about to be found, and hopefully she gets the help she needs. 🤞🏽