Girl with Non-Stop Hiccups Goes Missing

According to the Associated Press, Jennifer Mee, the 15 year old girl with the endless case of hiccups has gone missing. Police reports are indicating that the teen has run away from home. Mee's hiccup story made international headlines earlier this year.

Jennifer Mee's struggle with constant hiccups, occurring up to 50 times a minute and lasting for over five consecutive weeks, made her a newsworthy story. Mee was headline news, featured on morning talk shows, and became an internet sensation because of her case of hiccups. The hiccups stopped for a while, but then started again forcing Mee out of school.

Jennifer Mee was last seen by her sister at a park in north St. Petersburg on Sunday evening, according to police spokesman George Kajtsa. Jennifer's mother, Rachel Robidoux, reported the hiccupping teen missing about eleven hours later.

"She said her daughter ran away. She doesn't know why," Kajtsa said. "We are actively looking for her, like we do every runaway child."

Kajtsa added that Jennifer is not considered by the agency to be endangered.

Family members have circulated fliers and have called all of Jennifer's friends with the hope that Jennifer was staying away because she was just upset.

Robidoux thinks Jennifer may be upset because her mother failed to pay her cell phone bill. When Jennifer left the house on Sunday, after her mother had gone to work, the teen left her cell phone and purse behind.

The Florida police department has issued a "be on the lookout" advisory to police departments throughout Florida and has assigned a detective to search Jennifer's known hangouts.

Robidoux has seen a drastic change in her daughter's personality and attributes the difference in personality to medication (for the hiccups) and the national television exposure. Noting the defiant nature in Jennifer's recent personality shift, Robidoux says, "She comes and goes as she pleases."

Robidoux is keeping hope that Jennifer is just acting out and that she is not in any danger.

"I am very close with Jennifer. That's why this is really bothering me," says Robidoux. I have always tried to be her friend and her mother...I wanted her to feel like she can talk to me about whatever she wanted to talk about."

Robidoux adds that although Jennifer was very upset over her cell phone being turned off, she does not think that Jennifer was so angry that she would run away from home because of it.