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May 30, 2016
How to find a lost dog on the internet
Tonight, it was reported that some dogs went missing and I wanted to see exactly where the dogs went missing from, to determine the probability of the dogs being near us..
Often times, we don't have the exact address. Obviously having the exact address of the home where the dog normally lives helps us to determine the probability of the dog being in our general area.
One thing I got pretty good at when I was putting together the map of the neighborhood, is how to find out where people live using existing sources on the internet that are currently available to the general public.
So, tonight, the "missing dogs" post came from a Facebook group that I've been banned from. (I was banned over some housewives calling Fish and Fur which resulted in some wild animals being euthanized, which I'm personally against in a big way.)
So, in any event, some woman posted today in a Facebook group that her dogs were missing. And, I couldn't see the page, due to being banned. And, they gave the woman's name, but not her address. And I needed know what her address was so I could assess the probability of the dogs being in or around our neighborhood.
So, here's what I did. The message said essentially that the dogs belonged to
"Renee Wyatt . We live in the Timbers off of North Turkey Creek."
But, I'm not clear where "the timbers off of North Turkey Creek" is, exactly. So first, I searched for "timbers north turkey creek morrison":
https://www.google.com/search?q=timbers+north+turkey+creek+morrison
From this, I determined that the zip code of the area in question is 80439.
Now, we go to the online voter registration database for the zip code 80439.
Now, you just search for the person's name, and we see that Renee Wyatt lives at 7156 TIMBERS DR, EVERGREEN, CO 80439.
From this, I was able to determine that the probability of a couple of missing lap dogs missing from this address have essentially zero chance of showing up at my house, as they're over 4 miles away, and the dogs are the size of prairie dogs.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Plateau+Cir,+Morrison,+CO+80465/7026+Timbers+Dr,+Evergreen,+CO+80439/@39.587265,-105.2914938,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x876b77a4ab340ecd:0x450a45354943b0d1!2m2!1d-105.2484163!2d39.5923099!1m5!1m1!1s0x876b766f3afda53d:0x4f35dcfd203d6bb9!2m2!1d-105.296464!2d39.587842
Posted by Rob Kiser on May 30, 2016 at 10:15 PM
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