McCanns going too far?

Vonhelmet · 19 Mar 2008 at 19:35

dmpoole said:
Exactly the same.
Most of my holidays as a young child were at Butlins/Pontins and it was accepted to leave your kids in the chalets with a sign outside telling would be paedos that there was a child asleep.
Everybody would listen out for each others kids and then an announcement would come over "Kid crying in chalet 102".

You have to remember that things are different nowadays. Paedos are everywhere, lurking, waiting, watching, hiding, ready to spring from the darkness and RAPE YOUR CHILDREN.

Azagoth · 19 Mar 2008 at 19:36

vonhelmet said:
You have to remember that things are different nowadays. Paedos are everywhere, lurking, waiting, watching, hiding, ready to spring from the darkness and RAPE YOUR CHILDREN.

Quoted for hilarity!

SexyGreyFox · 19 Mar 2008 at 19:52

vonhelmet said:
You have to remember that things are different nowadays. Paedos are everywhere, lurking, waiting, watching, hiding, ready to spring from the darkness and RAPE YOUR CHILDREN.

I know you're joking but you wouldn't believe how many people think there are more paedos now than 50 years ago.

Meridian · 19 Mar 2008 at 19:52

Wicksta said:
I guess I'm from an era different from a lot of the people here, being in my mid 30s, but I don't think they did anything especially bad. My parents would leave me and my brother while going out for a meal nearby on holiday, popping back at short intervals to check we were both ok. I couldn't ask for more loving hardworking parents than I had (and still have), especially when comparing them to most parents these days.

Stop being reasonable, this is the OcUK lynch mob in full battlecry here.

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Duke · 19 Mar 2008 at 19:53

vonhelmet said:
You have to remember that things are different nowadays. Paedos are everywhere, lurking, waiting, watching, hiding, ready to spring from the darkness and RAPE YOUR CHILDREN.

Haha

Tefal · 19 Mar 2008 at 20:07

dmpoole said:
I know you're joking but you wouldn't believe how many people think there are more paedos now than 50 years ago.

Theoretically there are more nowadays, as there are more people

SexyGreyFox · 19 Mar 2008 at 21:51

Tefal said:
Theoretically there are more nowadays, as there are more people

I did think about this when I posted it but then I thought that a lot of Brits have emigrated and we now have a lot of immigrants who aren't known for kiddy tickling.

Third Opinion · 19 Mar 2008 at 22:02

Nice result for the McCanns though. Another £550,000 off their mortgages, sorry I mean the find Maddie fund.

Tefal · 19 Mar 2008 at 22:02

dmpoole said:
I did think about this when I posted it but then I thought that a lot of Brits have emigrated and we now have a lot of immigrants who aren't known for kiddy tickling.

Why are British people, more likely to be kiddy fiddlers than other nationalities? Especially considering this case happened abroad :confused:

SexyGreyFox · 19 Mar 2008 at 22:51

Tefal said:
Why are British people, more likely to be kiddy fiddlers than other nationalities? Especially considering this case happened abroad

White people definitely although you don't hear of many Poles, Romanians etc.
When I lived in Nigeria you never heard of one case of kiddy fiddling and the only reason they are doing it now in South Africa is because some weirdo told them you wouldn't get AIDS if you did it with babies.
Paedophilia is a white dominated perversion.

Vonhelmet · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:00

Third Opinion said:
Nice result for the McCanns though. Another £550,000 off their mortgages, sorry I mean the find Maddie fund.

Have you got any evidence to show that they're dipping into the fund, or are you just being a dick?

Dolph · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:09

vonhelmet said:
Have you got any evidence to show that they're dipping into the fund, or are you just being a dick?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7068760.stm

The fighting fund set up to help find Madeleine McCann was used by her parents to make two mortgage payments, their spokesman has said.

So yeah, plenty of evidence, from the horses mouth, that they have been dipping into the fund...

Wicksta · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:11

dmpoole said:
Exactly the same.
Most of my holidays as a young child were at Butlins/Pontins and it was accepted to leave your kids in the chalets with a sign outside telling would be paedos that there was a child asleep.
Everybody would listen out for each others kids and then an announcement would come over "Kid crying in chalet 102".

Haha we used to go to Pontins as well, one in Selsea (which I think has long gone). We had two chalets next to each other, one for the parents and one for me and my brother. I can't remember my exact age but here's a picture of me there in the arcade (which I used to be allowed to go to, in the daytime unsupervised by my parents :eek:

)

I wasn't abducted on any single occasion strangely enough.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:14

Dolph said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7068760.stm
So yeah, plenty of evidence, from the horses mouth, that they have been dipping into the fund...

They weren't dipping :
Clarence Mitchell said: "The fund has always had the ability to assist the family financially if necessary."

"When they were made arguido [suspects], it stopped, which was a mutual decision on the part of the fund and the McCanns," he said.

"They were happy to accept that their changed status meant they were no longer entitled to that assistance."

Dolph · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:15

Wicksta said:
Haha we used to go to Pontins as well, one in Selsea (which I think has long gone). We had two chalets next to each other, one for the parents and one for me and my brother. I can't remember my exact age but here's a picture of me there in the arcade (which I used to be allowed to go to, in the daytime unsupervised by my parents )

I wasn't abducted on any single occasion strangely enough.

You're certainly not three years old in that photograph though...

Wicksta · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:16

Dolph said:
You're certainly not three years old in that photograph though...

Probably about 8, which would make my brother about 3 years old.

Dolph · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:18

dmpoole said:
They weren't dipping :
Clarence Mitchell said: "The fund has always had the ability to assist the family financially if necessary."

"When they were made arguido [suspects], it stopped, which was a mutual decision on the part of the fund and the McCanns," he said.

"They were happy to accept that their changed status meant they were no longer entitled to that assistance."

Since when was paying the mortgage an expense of finding a child?

The fact that the fund was used for family expenses would certainly count as dipping in any other case, but I forget the McCann's are teflon coated...

Is the fund still a business and not a charity?

Wicksta · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:21

Dolph said:
Since when was paying the mortgage an expense of finding a child?

The fact that the fund was used for family expenses would certainly count as dipping in any other case, but I forget the McCann's are teflon coated...

They seem to be far from teflon coated, plenty of people on the internet seem to have already judged them as guilty of murder without any evidence whatsoever.

Dolph · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:25

Wicksta said:
They seem to be far from teflon coated, plenty of people on the internet seem to have already judged them without any evidence whatsoever.

And plenty more are prepared to absolve them of any responsibility whatsoever for leaving their child unattended, ignore them misusing funds (which could only happen because the maddie fund is a business not a charity) paying their own expenses, and generally paint them as some sort of victims (neglecting the real victim being Madeline).

It's been said before, but it's worth repeating, especially as previous posters comments about chavs support it, if the McCanns were working class from a council estate, they would have been utterly shafted and vilified by the media, the public and probably been charged with something by now.

Wicksta · 19 Mar 2008 at 23:34

Dolph said:
It's been said before, but it's worth repeating, especially as previous posters comments about chavs support it, if the McCanns were working class from a council estate, they would have been utterly shafted and vilified by the media, the public and probably been charged with something by now.

They were utterly shafted and vilified by the media, luckily they were intelligent enough to respond in the correct way and get front page apologies. I don't see how they could have been charged with anything though, chav family or not.