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Forrest Gimp

  • 17-09-2011 12:37AM
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14950656
    German police seek help over mystery 'forest boy'
    Berlin police have appealed for information to help them establish the identity of a teenager who appeared in the city saying that he had been living in the woods for five years.
    The teenager is about 17, and speaks English and a little German.
    He told the police that he and his father went to live in the woods after his mother died.

    I've heard of going back to nature, but this is a bit extreme!


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  • #2
    El Guapo!
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    He told the police that he and his father went to live in the woods after his mother died.

    Ah yes, the typical thing to do after a family member dies..........:confused:


  • #3
    starbelgrade
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Ah yes, the typical thing to do after a family member dies..........:confused:

    I don't think there is any typical thing to do after a family member dies.

    He was clearly in a very bad place when it happened & only twelve years old. A sad story indeed.


  • #4
    El Guapo!
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I don't think there is any typical thing to do after a family member dies.

    He was clearly in a very bad place when it happened & only twelve years old. A sad story indeed.


    Ok but.....going to live in the woods??!!!


  • #5
    captainjack
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    Forest Gimp, I like what you did there


  • #6
    Samich
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    M-M-M-Maddie? Is that you?


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  • #7
    starbelgrade
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Ok but.....going to live in the woods??!!!

    He was twelve years old. Hardly of an age to make rational decisions - especially in that state of mind.


  • #8
    El Guapo!
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    He was twelve years old. Hardly of an age to make rational decisions - especially in that state of mind.

    Yeah thats fair enough but how do you explain the father deciding to take his kid to live in the woods? I know grief can cause you to do strange things but thats just downright weird and bad parenting


  • #9
    Stained Class
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Ok but.....going to live in the woods??!!!

    Ah Jaysus, wood you like that to happen to you?:pac:


  • #10
    starbelgrade
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Yeah thats fair enough but how do you explain the father deciding to take his kid to live in the woods? I know grief can cause you to do strange things but thats just downright weird and bad parenting

    God knows what state of mind the father was in. It's obviously not normal behaviour, but I wouldn't go judging the man for his actions, given the circumstances.


  • #11
    bridgemond
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    Strange alright. Very harsh on the kid as he had no choice in the matter really.


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  • #12
    Cill Dara Abu
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    Samich wrote: »
    M-M-M-Maddie? Is that you?
    Not unless she had a sex change before heading for the woods.


  • #13
    El Guapo!
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    God knows what state of mind the father was in. It's obviously not normal behaviour, but I wouldn't go judging the man for his actions, given the circumstances.

    Yeah exactly, its not normal behaviour, but I think no matter how grief-stricken someone is, you should at least have the common sense not to say "oh I have a plan, I'll bring the kid to live in the woods with me"
    That poor kid is probably fúcked up for life now.
    People die everyday and their families don't all pack up and go Bear Grylls for a few years.


  • #14
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    God knows what state of mind the father was in. It's obviously not normal behaviour, but I wouldn't go judging the man for his actions, given the circumstances.

    I would. Let's call a spade a spade here, he's clearly a fcuking idiot. Taking your son and going to live in the woods? Clearly not fit to be a father anyways.


  • #15
    starbelgrade
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    THFC wrote: »
    I would. Let's call a spade a spade here, he's clearly a fcuking idiot. Taking your son and going to live in the woods? Clearly not fit to be a father anyways.

    People go off the rails for lots of different reasons & do things that they would never normally do. That doesn't make them idiots, just human.


  • #16
    El Guapo!
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    People go off the rails for lots of different reasons & do things that they would never normally do. That doesn't make them idiots, just human.

    I'd probably buy that argument if he went off by himself to live like a hermit, but to bring his defensless kid to live a life in the woods and to fúck him up for life?? That's a pretty shítty thing to do in my book. You might be overcome with grief but you still know right from wrong.


  • #17
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    People go off the rails for lots of different reasons & do things that they would never normally do. That doesn't make them idiots, just human.

    Well that's fair enough, everyone reacts differently. But this is taking it too far. He's ruined his sons life. I don't know how they managed five years without social services or whatever picking the son up.


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    THFC wrote: »
    Well that's fair enough, everyone reacts differently. But this is taking it too far. He's ruined his sons life. I don't know how they managed five years without social services or whatever picking the son up.

    They were English* speakers in a German forest, they would have dissapeared off the SS's radar.

    *British, Irish or American it doesen't say.


  • #19
    El Guapo!
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    They were English* speakers in a German forest, they would have dissapeared off the SS's radar.

    *British, Irish or American it doesen't say.

    True.
    Surely they had friends who thought it was a bit fishy though.


  • #20
    livinsane
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    The article says the boy was physically healthy. He only left because the father had died. They might have been doing fine in the woods. Cant see what the big hullabaloo is to be honest.
    And the "forest boy" tag is just sensationalist crap that annoys me.


  • #21
    ascanbe
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    I'd probably buy that argument if he went off by himself to live like a hermit, but to bring his defensless kid to live a life in the woods and to fúck him up for life?? That's a pretty shítty thing to do in my book. You might be overcome with grief but you still know right from wrong.

    Don't be silly.
    The father was clearly setting his son up for the life of book-deals, movie-deals, Las Vegas and cocaine-parties that will surely now follow.


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  • #22
    El Guapo!
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    livinsane wrote: »
    The article says the boy was physically healthy. He only left because the father had died. They might have been doing fine in the woods. Cant see what the big hullabaloo is to be honest.
    And the "forest boy" tag is just sensationalist crap that annoys me.

    "physically healthy" doesn't mean mentally healthy. I heard the story earlier today on the radio and the boy apparently didn't know where he came from. And what about his education the whole time he was livin it up like the Jungle Book


  • #23
    StupidLikeAFox
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    He completely dodged that whole awkward adolescent phase, genius!


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