Costa Del Sol Tragedy

Fair play to BTBW - saw all the upset over the previous comment yet still decided to post the same thing with more extreme elements added to it. What a bad-ass.

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

If you look at World Corruption Index you'll find Nigeria right there, you'd find many mainstream News Media showing the index, from BBC, to Forbes Magazine. It's only facts, and I'm saying if that is what is going on then it's pretty dam crazy.

But we've seen child killers play the hero, the ones front and center leading the search for missing kids, so it would not be a shock to see that now the mother is suddenly saying they were all Olympic Swimmers.

Im not saying it's what is happening here, I'm just saying it would not come as a shock.

- Nobody is denying the high level of corruption and scam artistry unfortunately prevalent in Nigeria

- The mother didn't say they're Olympic swimmers (you look stupid when you keep saying that)

- Of course it would be a shock if it turned out that the woman killed her family or didn't kill them but made up a story about their deaths to cash in, even though she's Nigerian

- You know all of the above and are just out to be controversial; it's a bit loopy really

SJW is such an inane term. It's supposed to refer to those very easily upset folks who e.g. insist on a load of genders. That's not social justice (which is stuff like ending segregation) so it's a stupid phrase in the first place. But it gets used for anything at all, which is stupider again.

It's a horrible tragedy to happen to any family especially at Christmas. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the accident. The first reports were that they couldn't swim but it doesn't seem that way as the wife says they could all swim and that they did go swimming. The initial reports were that the wife and another child were in the apartment when in happened. But the wife claims that they were all together at the pool, that they could all swim and that she and the child who survived ran for help. She says that her husband went down the steps to help their drowning children, which to be honest I find a bit strange, surely as a parent you'd jump in without thinking?



The 16 year old son was traveling on an American passport and I'd have thought that as a Pastor, Christmas being the high point of the Christian year, that he'd have been back home with his congregation. They also seem to have struggled to get anyone back home in Britain to comment on the family. All seems a bit strange, but they have my deepest sympathy, it's not something that should ever happen to anyone.

I don't know where the family are from originally, but there have been quite a few tragedies over the years where people from landlocked countries have drowned because they didn't know about tides or they thought they'd be OK in the water. People who aren't used to swimming shouldn't be in an unsupervised pool or swimming in the sea or whatever, but people are human and we make silly mistakes or overestimate our abilities. Whatever happened, it's a tragic waste of life.