Truth of the Lie - Madeleine McCann Banned Book

[thetank]

This has hee haw to do with anything but it's awesome.

[Claw75]

he looks a bit like you Tank!

[thetank]

I don't think he has a tongue.

[Claw75]

I don't think he has a tongue.

I'm giggling like a loon here - tongue or no tongue, he is a top dude!

[sovietsong]

I don't think he has a tongue.

how the hell do you find stuff like this?

[thetank]

trolololol lololol lololol
trolololol lololol lololol
a a a aaaaaaaaaaaa

[Claw75]

trolololol lololol lololol
trolololol lololol lololol
a a a aaaaaaaaaaaa

impossible to sing all those lols without a tongue. You're just jealous.

[StuartHopkin]

LOL

Thread reaches an immense high!

[MANTIS01]

Somebody gave me Kate McCann's book to read the other day and I remembered this thread. Reading her gut wrentching words made me think about the intolerable pain and suffering this once normal family went through. One of the things that stood out was how hoards of regular people were quite happy to suspect they were the killers based on how they 'appeared on telly' and such like. That sort of opinion hurt these people like you wouldn't believe when they were in a dark chasm of despair and in need of support.

Reading this thread back was bizarre on a number of levels. Generally I'm kinda intrigued why people in general are often willing to accept crazy conclusions based on nothing at all, not just in this case but in all conspiracy theories. In this case specifically I wonder if people are still nodding knowingly about what really happened based on their 'instincts'. On another note I paused especially to read posts from Laz who is part of this discussion and it had an impact that his words are still alive so to speak.

Anyway still happy to offer 20,000,000/1 for all the shrewd punters out there.

[leethefish]

Somebody gave me Kate McCann's book to read the other day and I remembered this thread. Reading her gut wrentching words made me think about the intolerable pain and suffering this once normal family went through. One of the things that stood out was how hoards of regular people were quite happy to suspect they were the killers based on how they 'appeared on telly' and such like. That sort of opinion hurt these people like you wouldn't believe when they were in a dark chasm of despair and in need of support.

Reading this thread back was bizarre on a number of levels. Generally I'm kinda intrigued why people in general are often willing to accept crazy conclusions based on nothing at all, not just in this case but in all conspiracy theories. In this case specifically I wonder if people are still nodding knowingly about what really happened based on their 'instincts'. On another note I paused especially to read posts from Laz who is part of this discussion and it had an impact that his words are still alive so to speak.

Anyway still happy to offer 20,000,000/1 for all the shrewd punters out there.

Not read this thread don't know what your offering .....but I'll have a pound at them odds!

[AndrewT]

Missed this thread at the time.

Finding Tank's video after the previous 11 pages must be like what BP feel when they finally hit oil after 6 months of drilling through rock.

[ManuelsMum]

Somebody gave me Kate McCann's book to read the other day and I remembered this thread. Reading her gut wrentching words made me think about the intolerable pain and suffering this once normal family went through. One of the things that stood out was how hoards of regular people were quite happy to suspect they were the killers based on how they 'appeared on telly' and such like. That sort of opinion hurt these people like you wouldn't believe when they were in a dark chasm of despair and in need of support.

Reading this thread back was bizarre on a number of levels. Generally I'm kinda intrigued why people in general are often willing to accept crazy conclusions based on nothing at all, not just in this case but in all conspiracy theories. In this case specifically I wonder if people are still nodding knowingly about what really happened based on their 'instincts'. On another note I paused especially to read posts from Laz who is part of this discussion and it had an impact that his words are still alive so to speak.

Anyway still happy to offer 20,000,000/1 for all the shrewd punters out there.

I suppose they watch the news to be entertained, it's not like the story has any direct impact on them whatsoever. Suggesting that the parents were involved in the death is more entertaining to them, so they want to believe it. Finding out that it wasn't in fact true just takes a little edge off the entertainment factor, a bit like reading a great thriller and finding out at the end that it 'was all a dream'.
The police were pretty insistent...making them 'suspects', and declaring that traces of Maddie were found on stuff her mum had (no kidding, she's her mum), and that a trained dog had unequivocally signalled that a dead body had been in their hire vehicle (obviously she was smuggled out having been stored in secret under the gaze of half the world's press).

[tonytats]

The bottom line with these 2 people is they chose to go " on the piss" with their friends and leave their 3 young children unattended ,neither maddie nor her parents deserved the outcome
Why did they not do what most parents do when on holiday ? Take the kids to the restaurant n let them fall asleep in their buggies / on a seat by their table ?
Were they not 2 " middle-class professional " people and a couple of chavs their other 2 kids would have been taken off them !

[ManuelsMum]

The bottom line with these 2 people is they chose to go " on the piss" with their friends and leave their 3 young children unattended ,neither maddie nor her parents deserved the outcome

The bottom line for me is that she was taken. Granted, she shouldn't have been left, and if she hadn't been left, she wouldn't have been taken. But leaving them on their own was not the cause of the disappearance, nor can the taking be reasonably foreseen. The chances were very small. The parents weren't stupid/negligent for not taking it into consideration.
Do people ever leave their kids in bed and the doors to their house unlocked while they are in? Plenty do, and kids have been taken in these circumstances.

Were they not 2 " middle-class professional " people and a couple of chavs their other 2 kids would have been taken off them !

Agreed. Neither would they have had the massive campaign running into millions nor the very expensive police support, which, let's face it, has as good as caused the permanent loss of other similar kids, due to a deflection of resources.

The real chance of finding her was within 24 hours of the disappearance. And that was screwed up.