While mom's actions seem subject to ridicule, I guess I disagree.

If one of my kids were biking across Los Angeles, much less Peru, and had been happily facebooking the entire time, and then suddenly stopped for four weeks, I'd be pretty concerned too.

And yes, I think that's what having a US Passport entitles citizens too, some amount of oversight and helicoptering from US Officials.

And while I am sure the kid was in remote villages with no electricity, I doubt if that was the case the entire four weeks (late January to late February).

This is the city where these two dumbasses were in early February, https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Pucallpa+hostel my guess is that even this remote Peruvian town has a goddamn mailbox and maybe even share a telegraph line or one enormous party line brought in by missionaries decades a go. So here kid is $5 send a fucking postcard home to your mom.

To that extent, I'd say the son is by far the bigger idiot than his mother. You don't post, post, post, post, and then stop cold turkey and then expect mom and the rest of the Internet not to take notice and ask if you're okay.

No surprise that Gawker acts like a huge bowl of douchebags in their "reporting."

Nah, I have to disagree Jerry. Its Peru, not LA.

Frankly I'd be pissed if my parent(s) did that.

I don't have my parents on facebook, won't put them on there, last damn thing in the world I want is them nosing around in my personal life. They're decent people, but very clingy.

Yeah, so my youngest half brother posted a photo of him and his buddies shirtless facing a wall as ping pong ball were hit at them.

Making a beer pong reference I asked if they were playing anal sex pong, about three people said yes, and then his mother joined the conversation.

She was not amused

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/02/boy-7-suspended-for-shaping-pastry-into-gun-dad-says

(This is the real reason Twinkies and Ding Dongs had to be taken off the market....)

To that extent, I'd say the son is by far the bigger idiot than his mother.

He's 25 years old. He's allowed. He's young and inexperienced, and it will never happen again.

He probably about had a heart attack when he was approached by the policia. There's a joke about an American tourist in a Latin America country contending with the policia wondering where is Miranda rights are. The punch line?

We know of your Miranda. But in this country, our Miranda wears a funny hat and dances on tables.

A couple of weeks ago my dad notices I had not been online in skype for a few days....calls my a few times. Txt messages me. sends an email to two of my address and plus my work email...I think he called my work phone too (blocked number but the time was about right) all at 11 pm on Sat. Then he repeats the process at 8am on Sun morning. I got the message on Sun and replied. He then proceeds to call me a bunch of times about 1pm...I picked up..he never even bothered to have checked his messages....
All this because Skype had crashed.