Rent a maddie? Anyone?

Tha Gopher · 12-01-2008 10:08PM

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Outta curiosity, what did they do to make them bad parents?

Do you actually watch the news?

Bad parents are skangers who go down the pub in the afternoon and leave the six year old kid to play on the street with older local kids who may or may not look after them properly.

Downright awful parents are people who between them earn over 100 euro an hour who will not pay 11 an hour to a babysitter, and instead think its a good idea to leave a 3 year old in charge of two younger siblings in an unlocked apartment.

The McCanns fall into the second category, and really ought to be charged with, at the very least, manslaughter due to gross negligence. When people die in accidents on public transport or construction sites due to penny pinching negligence, owners are charged with corporate manslaughter. Assuming the McCanns didnt physically kill their child, they contributed to her death by failing to pay to maintain her safety. Why no charge?

Mr.Micro · 12-01-2008 10:18PM

It suits them for the public to believe the children were left alone on the fateful night or nights, otherwise how would the bundleman have had the opportunity to take the child. I do not believe a word they say, if they had answered all the questions, no matter how difficult from the PJ then I would have at least felt that they co operated 100%. Its all a smokescreen and being labeled as bad parents is the lesser of two evils.

Lockstep · 12-01-2008 10:26PM

Dudess wrote: »

They left their children sleeping alone and headed out, rather than hiring a babysitter.

Thanks for the answer but I wasn't reffering to that.

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Do you actually watch the news?

*sighs*

I quoted the part where he said he should have reported the parents to social services, right after talking about the "lookalike".

Go figure.

blow69 · 13-01-2008 01:47AM

Do you know what i love?

The fact that her parents never called her Maddie.It's something the tabloids made up to save space so they can fit more badly-worded sentences on their front page:rolleyes:

Dudess · 13-01-2008 02:00AM

Or maybe to make it seem like they "care" about her - "our Maddy/Maddie" etc.
Similar story for James Bolger - his parents apparently didn't call him Jamie. It was the tabloids that decided to give him a kind of "pet" name.

13-01-2008 02:03AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I was in the mall yesterday waiting to go in for a job interview... There was a woman walking around looking ever so slightly anxious... Next thing I know she's almost sprinting to the exit.

Turns out she had ''lost track'' of her little boy, whom was standing outside, at least I assume he was hers. He was no more than 4 years old... How the **** do you lose a kid?! That's some serious negligence there!

I've seen that happening countless times in my job.

Once a father came in with his 2 twins; 2 girls, probably no older than 5. They were both dressed as Supergirl and had gone into their movie. About 20 minutes in, one of the little girls strolls out and comes up to where both myself and another workmate are standing and goes over and plays. This goes on for about 10 minutes, and we are keeping an eye on her to make sure she doesn't walk anywhere else.

Eventually my workmate walks over, asks the little child where her father is (we recognised her from the costume and knew she had come in with him), she replies that he's still in the screen. So my workmate brings the girl back into her movie, finds the little girl's father and brings the girl back.

He didn't even realise she had walked out! She could've been gone for more than 10 minutes.

Oh, and another story. A small boy, maybe 6, walked out of his movie, down the escalator and nearly out the front door had our then-chief projectionist (who only happened to be there) asked the little child where his parents were. At which point he started crying (the projectionists wear plain clothes as they're never seen by customers) and sprinted up and back into their movie.

Lockstep · 13-01-2008 11:19AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I've seen that happening countless times in my job.

Once a father came in with his 2 twins; 2 girls, probably no older than 5. They were both dressed as Supergirl and had gone into their movie. About 20 minutes in, one of the little girls strolls out and comes up to where both myself and another workmate are standing and goes over and plays. This goes on for about 10 minutes, and we are keeping an eye on her to make sure she doesn't walk anywhere else.

Eventually my workmate walks over, asks the little child where her father is (we recognised her from the costume and knew she had come in with him), she replies that he's still in the screen. So my workmate brings the girl back into her movie, finds the little girl's father and brings the girl back.

He didn't even realise she had walked out! She could've been gone for more than 10 minutes.

Oh, and another story. A small boy, maybe 6, walked out of his movie, down the escalator and nearly out the front door had our then-chief projectionist (who only happened to be there) asked the little child where his parents were. At which point he started crying (the projectionists wear plain clothes as they're never seen by customers) and sprinted up and back into their movie.

Is this in the HEadford Road cinema?

I take my hats off to the staff there as they seem very good with the kids. Once I took my little brother to see a movie but he got scared by something and belted outta the movie-room. I ran after him and found him being consoled by a member of staff.

I was working in Dunnes and was shocked by the amount of times little kids would appear next to me with big old smirks on their faces before some parent at the other end of the aisle/ end of the store would realize the kid wasnt with them.

Peyton Manning · 13-01-2008 11:30AM

Im gonna hire that girl, put some pale face paint on her, teach her to say 'Why did you kill me?' and let her loose in the McCann's front garden. Should be good fun.

Rent a maddie? Anyone?

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