LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette 19 May 2012 - #26

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I'm here to defend all bike riders. The bicycle is my choice of religious icon.
I'm sorry to drag us back into ground you've all covered on earlier threads, but I feel compelled to do so.
I took the popular images into photoshop, used crop tool, clicked the adjust image column of tools, changed the pixels per square inch from 72 pixles per inch to higher numbers ranging from 216 ppi to 600 ppi. I used the auto levels and auto contrast tools from the same column. These images are not altered except for a red circle I drew around an object of interest to me. Enhanced, not altered.

Whoa! Would you please explain the last pic? Looks like Mickey with her left arm in the air. Is that correct??
 
there is something wrong with the position of the figure above and to the right of the Oldsmobile. As mentioned earlier the body position is in clear contrast to the Mickey stopped at road work sign image. The hair is not as big, the crouch indicates either a fast ride, or no travel at all, maybe inspection. Sure it could be Mickey, but it could be lots of other things too, I'm willing to include a man running from the gas station with a white t-shirt. Until proven otherwise, it's my ironclad belief that the light under the truck resembles the basket light. In that case no further bike riding would be possible.

Was there a basket on the bike? I didn't think so.

ETA: BTW I watched Wizard of Oz last night
 
They'd laugh and hang up, because its an absurd notion. I shudder to think of all the 'tips' they had to process.
IDK. Seems La PD is being stingy as possible with the details. Therefore there is no proof that the bike is not under the truck, or at least no firm official denial.
the bike is under the truck. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

As for that other white vehicle to the right of the olds and heading in the opposite direction, I see a Dodge, maybe PT Cruiser, they have the largest nose, like 1940's retro, or maybe a Jeep Liberty.

My mom's neighbor has a spitting image z71 with Missouri plates I've been trying not to rubber neck at. It has a unique gurgling sound when it fires up. It's not quiet.
 
there is something wrong with the position of the figure above and to the right of the Oldsmobile. As mentioned earlier the body position is in clear contrast to the Mickey stopped at road work sign image. The hair is not as big, the crouch indicates either a fast ride, or no travel at all, maybe inspection. Sure it could be Mickey, but it could be lots of other things too, I'm willing to include a man running from the gas station with a white t-shirt. Until proven otherwise, it's my ironclad belief that the light under the truck resembles the basket light. In that case no further bike riding would be possible.

So the guy running into the gas station had been riding a bike moments before? I don't understand.
 
I'm here to defend all bike riders. The bicycle is my choice of religious icon.
I'm sorry to drag us back into ground you've all covered on earlier threads, but I feel compelled to do so.
I took the popular images into photoshop, used crop tool, clicked the adjust image column of tools, changed the pixels per square inch from 72 pixles per inch to higher numbers ranging from 216 ppi to 600 ppi. I used the auto levels and auto contrast tools from the same column. These images are not altered except for a red circle I drew around an object of interest to me. Enhanced, not altered.

I blew the pics up in a similar way. I also see something under the truck that looks very much like the bicycle light shown in other images. I can also see something in the air midway between the windshield and top of the cab. As well as 'something' larger under the truck. Everything says that she was hit right there....bike under the truck and her over the cab. But....it seems very unlikely that LE would have released the pic. Besides the fact that someone is pumping gas right there. Surely he would have heard or seen it. It seems unlikely they could hit her, pick her and the bike parts up without being seen. Plus, they would have had to fly up behind her very quickly to hit her in the same spot she was in the prior snapshot. Nothing is impossible of course. What it looks like and my reasoning are at odds.
 
Pareidolia ( /pærdoli/ parr-i-doh-lee-) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.
 
Whoa! Would you please explain the last pic? Looks like Mickey with her left arm in the air. Is that correct??

I'm sorry. That's what I see too. I don't like it. wondering if she knew location of security cams, because her posture reminds me of someone holding a phone between her shoulder and her ear, like us 70's kids did in the giant phone era.<edit> I am referring to the only clear image of MS, alone, stopped by the road work sign.
 
IDK. Seems La PD is being stingy as possible with the details. Therefore there is no proof that the bike is not under the truck, or at least no firm official denial.
the bike is under the truck. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

As for that other white vehicle to the right of the olds and heading in the opposite direction, I see a Dodge, maybe PT Cruiser, they have the largest nose, like 1940's retro, or maybe a Jeep Liberty.

My mom's neighbor has a spitting image z71 with Missouri plates I've been trying not to rubber neck at. It has a unique gurgling sound when it fires up. It's not quiet.

I haven't let go of the under-the-truck theory.
 
After so many ups and downs in this case, I can't get too hopeful about the white truck in tow being followed by 6 police cars that can or cannot be confirmed (yet). I mean, a log was or was not Mickey and we were all losing it when they brought that log up from Whiskey Bay at midnight.
With every little crumb LE or Abdella gives us, I have gotten more and more sure that we're "thisclose" to finding Mickey but I do not feel that way about the possible white truck in two being followed by cop cars. But since I was so sure everything else was going to pan out soon and didn't, so maybe my intuition is super off and sinse I feel like this is nothing, it'll turn out to be something.
...Great, now I think it may be something again....
These ups and downs are awful for us WSers. I cannot imagine what it's like to the Shunciks & Mickey's close friends. Thoughts and prayers for them.
 
What is the IMPACT task force?

I saw a group of trustees who were picking up garbage on Amb. Caffery around 11:15am- about six of them and the LE officer that was with them were huddled around looking at something near the side of the sidewalk in the grassy/overgrown area across from Wal-Mart. The trustees were pointing at something in the overgrown grass. I got really hopeful and almost logged into WS on my phone to post about it, but then thought better of it. I figured it was probably just a dead snake or something. At this point, any potential break in the case excites me (obviously). Also obviosuly, these trustees and LE officer are not the IMPACT task force. But I would like to know what it is (I'm new).

Iberia parish sheriffs office impact task force which has been aiding in the search for Mickey. There was about 25 units out today at an undisclosed location.
 
I don't think a truck potentially used in an abduction/murder would need to be escorted by marked police cars. It isn't as if they are transporting Hannibal Lecter.
 
Now panning to the right, another white vehicle, Jeep Liberty? PT Cruiser? Dodge has the bulbous nose. The distance between wheels is large.

I have the same pic...last thread. Pretty sure it is the white truck with the bed cover.
 
Iberia parish sheriffs office impact task force which has been aiding in the search for Mickey. There was about 25 units out today at an undisclosed location.

Thanks!

How can 25 units be at an undisclosed location?

Must be a nifty cloaking device.
 
I don't think there has been that many ups and downs in this case-there has not been much of anything at all. The only real thing we know happened is the bike was found.
 
I'm sorry. That's what I see too. I don't like it. wondering if she knew location of security cams, because her posture reminds me of someone holding a phone between her shoulder and her ear, like us 70's kids did in the giant phone era.

Or maybe she's getting ready to turn and is making the turning signs with her hands/arms that cyclists are legaly supposed to make?

(I add here I have not looked at the pics again recently so this isn't necessarily what I see. I cannot bring myself to look at them again. I can see everything and nothing in them. I just can't. I will say I see Lauren Spierer in the back of the WT in the pics her case, and that truck has been cleared. So I guess I just wanted to see her. And the LS WT pics are of much better quality I think. There's even more to think we see in these low quality pics in Mickey's case).
 
Pareidolia ( /pærdoli/ parr-i-doh-lee-) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.

That would account for seeing the dog in the back seat, or the dog face in the windshield. It just doesn't apply to the pic of the truck. It's like that old saw, 'who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes" .....

There's no denying the profile of the tire is marred by *something* and the presence of the light under there.

I don't like it anymore than any of you but I won't filter it through what I want to believe and then discard it.
 
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