Where has the Madeleine McCann AH thread gone?

IvaBigWun · 08-06-2014 06:41PM #1

After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again

PizzamanIRL · 08-06-2014 06:42PM

We'll have to dig around for it.

Mr. Incognito · 08-06-2014 06:42PM

It was buried in Portugal

efb · 08-06-2014 06:43PM

And we're sending our love down the well...

wazky · 08-06-2014 06:43PM

Portuguese police lost it.

Alf. A. Male · 08-06-2014 06:43PM

The thread has been sighted a few places, but it was mistaken identity.

Renegade Mechanic · 08-06-2014 06:43PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

We'll have to dig around for it.

Heh..

kneemos · 08-06-2014 06:44PM

Definitely needs to be repeated all over again.

hatrickpatrick · 08-06-2014 06:45PM

This is what happens when you leave a thread unattended

IvaBigWun · 08-06-2014 06:45PM

I'll go off and catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour

Mint Sauce · 08-06-2014 06:46PM

Take your pick OP before they disappear.

PizzamanIRL · 08-06-2014 06:47PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I'll go off a catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour

Don't get your hopes up.

genericguy · 08-06-2014 06:47PM

As an aside - I'm firmly in the "the parents know what happened" camp, and have always hated them for actively seeking celebrity status out of the situation. Anyone else find their deafening silence in this case rather odd?

anncoates · 08-06-2014 06:48PM

It reached a critical mass of sanctimony and blew up.

kneemos · 08-06-2014 06:50PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I'll go off a catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour

Go for a meal.

fleet_admiral · 08-06-2014 06:51PM

the masons took it

ArtyM · 08-06-2014 06:53PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again

Why in God's name would you want that thread back?
It had descended into a beyond-petty bickerfest between a handful of posters multi-quoting, thanks-whoring, and endlessly endlessly arguing.

Shakespeare's Sister · 08-06-2014 06:53PM

genericguy wrote: »

As an aside - I'm firmly in the "the parents know what happened" camp, and have always hated them for actively seeking celebrity status out of the situation. Anyone else find their deafening silence in this case rather odd?

But I thought people's issue was that they *weren't* being silent about it - and, as you say, seeking celebrity status out of the situation.

In my opinion they were just using whatever clout they had to raise awareness in relation to their missing child, which anyone would do if they had the means.

I think their decision to leave their children without a babysitter was just unbelievable... but after that I have absolutely no solid cause to believe they know what happened and I don't understand why there is such eagerness to believe this.

maguic24 · 08-06-2014 06:57PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again

IvaBigWun, what are you doing?

IvaBigWun, STOP!!

Gran Hermano · 08-06-2014 06:58PM

It was here earlier, then I nipped out for some tapas...

Steppenwolfe · 08-06-2014 07:38PM

ArtyM wrote: »

Why in God's name would you want that thread back?
It had descended into a beyond-petty bickerfest between a handful of posters multi-quoting, thanks-whoring, and endlessly endlessly arguing.

Much like every other thread on AH so.

Teyla Emmagan · 08-06-2014 07:57PM

That was an awful thread, I don't miss it.

Sulla Felix · 08-06-2014 08:04PM

She'd be 11 now. If she's still kicking, hopefully she's forgotten about her old life and is living in something approaching normalcy.

IvaBigWun · 08-06-2014 09:03PM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Take your pick OP before they disappear.

Thanks for that but its none of those threads.

Things must have got really bad towards the end of that main thread for a full on deletion as opposed to just a locking

dark crystal · 08-06-2014 09:15PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Thanks for that but its none of those threads.

Things must have got really bad towards the end of that main thread for a full on deletion as opposed to just a locking

I did enquire about the unexplained closure to the mods, but never got an answer as to the reason. It remains a mystery....

Unless there's a significant break in the story, I don't see why it needs to be resurrected anyway. The whole topic just seems to go round in circles and can get pretty nasty at times.

efb · 08-06-2014 09:16PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I'll go off and catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour

Irony of that comment from that username...

hatrickpatrick · 08-06-2014 09:25PM

efb wrote: »

Irony of that comment from that username...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4

rawn · 08-06-2014 09:30PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4

Just noticed the massive spoiler in that! For non book readers/people who haven't watched the new season/hermits etc anyways

ToddyDoody · 08-06-2014 10:24PM

So are we saying it was all a conspiracy yet?

efb · 08-06-2014 10:29PM

It was Elvis riding Shergar with Princess Di

IvaBigWun · 09-06-2014 10:37PM

http://news.sky.com/story/1278274/madeleine-mccann-police-shut-down-search-area

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have closed down their first search area in Praia da Luz.

Detectives ordered cordons to be taken away from the scrubland site on Sunday evening.

The area is a five-minute walk from the holiday complex where the McCanns were staying in May 2007.

Specialist teams spent the past week conducting in-depth searches using victim recovery dogs and radar equipment, while archaeologists carefully dug out holes.
Members of Scotland Yard cover a hole during the search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz. Officers cover a hole dug in the initial search site in Praia da Luz

The holes have now been filled in, police have packed away their tents and equipment has been removed from the site.

Paul Luckman, publisher of the Portugal News, told Sky News: "Nothing has been found that the Portuguese police missed at the time.

"People really feel that enough is enough.

"(It's) not that they don't have sympathy for the parents or that they don't want the child found but (we have to) be realistic - we're seven years down the road."

Police search an area of scrubland in Praia da Luz for any clues about Madeleine McCann's disappearance Detectives dropped mini-cameras into drains during the search

Mr Luckman also questioned the expense of the investigation to the British taxpayer, adding: "£7m in, heading towards eight, and with all the resources the Met have got ... we're just in the same situation.

"People ask, 'When is this ever going to end?'"

Portuguese police sources told Sky News the investigation will resume on Wednesday with searches in new areas just outside Praia da Luz.

The Metropolitan Police has refused to give out any details about the searches or the intelligence behind them.

Where has the Madeleine McCann AH thread gone?

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