Missing Madeline - Anyone else sick of this?

lemansky · 27-05-2007 08:03PM

Blondie86Star wrote:

I heard some businessman was giving him the use of his private jet to go look for her....

Oh for God's sake.It just goes from bad to worse doesn't it?...what good will any of those things do!Unless of course she happened,by some coincidence, to be hidden away in the plane that they got,but that is about the only way a plane could possibly help!

MooseJam · 27-05-2007 08:03PM

Blondie86Star wrote:

I heard some businessman was giving him the use of his private jet to go look for her....

she's only small, no way would she be spotted from way up in the sky

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 08:08PM

Why do they need a private jet with all this money they're getting?

aidan_walsh · 27-05-2007 08:12PM

Blondie86Star wrote:

The disgrace is the circus around the whole event

Please God tell me you appreciate the irony of that statement and your continued involvment in this thread.

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 08:13PM

I've edited my previous post if that makes it more clear to you

Apologies for the confusion

aidan_walsh · 27-05-2007 08:15PM

So, thats a no then...

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 08:19PM

aidan_walsh wrote:

So, thats a no then...

Excuse me?
I am perfectly entitled to express my view on this overblown agenda, that has been overblown completely by the press. Whatever saying ignore it but when its in your facevmore or less 24/7 it gives you two option, either crawl under a rock or to express your frustations with it.

That is what I'm doing.

Eglinton · 27-05-2007 09:05PM

sean_keevey wrote:

lol @ pun:D

sean_keevey wrote:

Free holidays perhaps?

You should check out the Lolocaust forum

Eglinton · 27-05-2007 09:10PM

Eglinton wrote:

Madeleine parents hope to meet Pope

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0527/breaking29.htm

I suppose if she's been abducted by a paedophile ring, the Vatican is as good a place to look as any

lemansky · 27-05-2007 09:14PM

Eglinton wrote:

I suppose if she's been abducted by a paedophile ring, the Vatican is as good a place to look as any

Why didn't I think of that!Terrific!

Eglinton · 27-05-2007 09:17PM

lemansky wrote:

Why didn't I think of that!Terrific!

Don't worry, it took me 6 hours to think of it.

lemansky · 27-05-2007 09:22PM

Eglinton wrote:

Don't worry, it took me 6 hours to think of it.

It was time well spent though!

mikemac · 27-05-2007 10:15PM

For the next election, Fine Gael & Labour should hire the McCanns as media consultants.

They are absolute geniuses at getting media coverage.
Future careers in PR?

Gran Hermano · 27-05-2007 10:23PM

Blondie86Star wrote:

Why do they need a private jet with all this money they're getting?

Maybe they're saving their cash to pay for a babysitter for the twins.

Mossy Monk · 27-05-2007 10:38PM

Eglinton wrote:

I suppose if she's been abducted by a paedophile ring, the Vatican is as good a place to look as any

They wouldn't be in to little girls.

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 11:04PM

Gran Hermano wrote:

Maybe they're saving their cash to pay for a babysitter for the twins.

Hate to say it but lol

Blondie86Star · 28-05-2007 11:19AM

It gets worse:
Computer gamers can pray for Maddie at an altar in the online virtual world Second Life

DarkJager · 28-05-2007 11:24AM

Yeah, its getting too much now. Her father is starting to get on my nerves big time, he seems to be enjoying all the attention rather than looking any bit like a father whose daughter has been abducted. Time for the news channels to drop this story like stolen goods, maybe give an update when something interesting happens.

6ix · 28-05-2007 11:38AM

Unless another child goes missing, Sky News won't leave this story. It's perfect tabloid fodder.

whiskeyman · 28-05-2007 11:42AM

whiskeyman wrote:

I'm expecting a 'Madeline - Aid" style concert anytime soon now with balloons, yellow ribbons, candles, video montages before each act...

Jaysus, I was only joking, but now I doubt it's far off! A mate just told me he saw on Sky News this morning that all the big Scottish radio stations (the father is Scottish) all played a remixed version of Simple Minds 'Don't you forget about me' together at 8am this morning. Apparently, the 'remix' featured audio clips about the story (probably snippets from the parents pleading for her safe return?).
This is getting way too near parody stage now.

6ix wrote:

Unless another child goes missing

Unless a young, beautiful, photogenic child with respectible parents goes missing you mean. Lots of other children already have...

robnubis · 28-05-2007 11:58AM

Well theres a 14 year old from cork missing, but thats not important...he isnt a darling little blond girl...

_feedback_ · 28-05-2007 12:03PM

Eglinton wrote:

I suppose if she's been abducted by a paedophile ring, the Vatican is as good a place to look as any

hup ya boya!!!

I think it's gone beyond ridiculous stage now .... What use does doing a bloody tour of europe have? As previous posters have mentioned, the more this case is highlighted, the more likely it is for the possible abductor to panic.

Also, as I mentioned about a week ago somewhere on this thread... The 'are you a parent?' thing is getting very very .... very old now.

Blondie86Star · 28-05-2007 12:03PM

robnubis wrote:

Well theres a 14 year old from cork missing, but thats not important...he isnt a darling little blond girl...

I doubt his parents have an audience with the pope

Jonesy3110 · 28-05-2007 02:03PM

I hope the Pope uses his Pope powers to fly really fast around the planet, thus turning back time and then gives the McCanns a twenty to hire a babysitter for an hour while they went out to dinner, and then gives them both a good slap.

Go Pope!

GreeBo · 28-05-2007 02:09PM

Thinking about it a bit more and after talking to my mother I have come to not "blame" the parents for leaving the kids.
It happens the whole time, those of us looking in from afar saying " I would never do that" probably dont realise that in that case you would never do anything.
Its not much different than leaving the kids in the back garden while you are updstairs or in the front room, someone could hop over the fence and nab them.
We cant hide childred in cotton wool, not eveyone is a paedophile or a kidnapper.
They were just unlucky IMO.

Snake Plisken · 28-05-2007 02:29PM

I can see a re-release of the Simple Minds track, with all proceeds going to the Maddie Fund. I don't mind if it goes to some international missing children charity, but not so the Father can travel around by private jet. As we all know kids can be taken from backgardens shopping centres etc then you couldn't blame the parents. Also the Mccanns where on Holidays with another family were they doing the same with their kids?
Also read in the paper today the bloke they first arrested, they did find peado stuff on his laptop, but could not tie it to the missing girl.

Snake

Blondie86Star · 28-05-2007 02:46PM

Snake Plisken wrote:

I can see a re-release of the Simple Minds track, with all proceeds going to the Maddie Fund.

Was just about to say the same thing.

Has anyone else seen those yellow ribbons creeping in here? saw a couple the other day in town, though it was english women on a hen party wearing them....

Jonesy3110 · 28-05-2007 02:50PM

Also read in the paper today the bloke they first arrested, they did find peado stuff on his laptop, but could not tie it to the missing girl.

Thats Insane. How can they find peado stuff on a guys computer, and not connect it with a missing child? Unless it was just news articles or something, but if it was porno thats just insane.

Can I just say how depressing it was to spend a week on holidays in Canada and not hear a single thing about this, then on my arrival back into Ireland to be greeted with a big poster of Maddy looking for info! And this thread is the first thing Ive heard about a missing boy in cork

I hope when I have children that Sky News deems them adorable enough to warrant this kind of attention.

Snake Plisken · 28-05-2007 02:57PM

haven't seen any ribbons but did spot a poster in an estate agents in Celbridge.

Snake

jubi lee · 28-05-2007 03:07PM

right so loads of kids go missing everyday, don't you think getting at least one back is a good thing? if that means lots of media attention for a few weeks then who are ya to begrudge her or her family that?? if she has been grabbed by a paedo ring, can you imagine what they are doing to that poor child??

if ur fed up watching it on the news then turn it off and don't read that page of the paper...not much effort really.

Missing Madeline - Anyone else sick of this?

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