Wandering Off Topic

[Lace]

"If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.......I flip burgers & steal kids 

I didn't mention the chef The General did.

I wonder what occupations other abductors have had,  do you think they are all unemployed?   That would make it a bit easier for finding suspects though wouldn't it?

[Lace]

Granted. But you'd have to be a very specific chef, with a very specific set of skills, in the Algarve, off season. Good luck with finding a chef, let alone one skilled in child abduction. This phantom, it's a female, right? English speaking, trustworthy, blends in nicely - FOR SEVERAL MONTHS BEFOREHAND? They played the long game?

Why are you talking about the chef?    I didn't mention the chef I said an OC employee.

[Lace]

You obviously think that there are occasions when people are incapable of functioning. Is that a fact or are people's reactions as varied as their personalities?

The crisis  councillor a specialist in his field said that Kate and Gerry were not functioning in the aftermath of their daughters disappearance.   Witnesses saw Gerry crying on the shoulder of his friend,  breaking down on the floor.  I'm sorry but Gerry was not acting like a father who was not concerned about his daughter.  To be eating dinner laughing and joking one minute to behaving in an absolute distraught way, well give him an Oscar.

[G-Unit]

The crisis  councillor a specialist in his field said that Kate and Gerry were not functioning in the aftermath of their daughters disappearance.   Witnesses saw Gerry crying on the shoulder of his friend,  breaking down on the floor.  I'm sorry but Gerry was not acting like a father who was not concerned about his daughter.  To be eating dinner laughing and joking one minute to behaving in an absolute distraught way, well give him an Oscar.

Perhaps they should have. He proved capable of searching upstairs in block 5, responding to Mrs Fenn, the GNR and the PJ, deleting his phone history and making many phone calls.

[The General]

I didn't mention the chef The General did.

I wonder what occupations other abductors have had,  do you think they are all unemployed?   That would make it a bit easier for finding suspects though wouldn't it?

Not the same. You're suggesting that this particular abductor was recruited for the task. Unless, of course, you're suggesting that this employee decided to take advantage of a chance opportunity, pass MM to an accomplice - then go about their business in the OC? This unflappable female abductor (of indeterminate role at the OC), with such powers of persuasion, guile, cunning and meticulous planning. Now who should get an Oscar? She's back stirring the meatballs ten minutes later ffs.

[Wonderfulspam]

'She's back stirring the meatballs ten minutes later ffs.'

 

[Lace]

'She's back stirring the meatballs ten minutes later ffs.'

 

Who is 'she'  I didn't mention any particular  OC employee.

[Lace]

Not the same. You're suggesting that this particular abductor was recruited for the task. Unless, of course, you're suggesting that this employee decided to take advantage of a chance opportunity, pass MM to an accomplice - then go about their business in the OC? This unflappable female abductor (of indeterminate role at the OC), with such powers of persuasion, guile, cunning and meticulous planning. Now who should get an Oscar? She's back stirring the meatballs ten minutes later ffs.

Female abductor?   I didn't mention anyone.   It could even be someone who happened to get an OC badge.

[jassi]

Female abductor?   I didn't mention anyone.  It could even be someone who happened to get an OC badge.

If there was such a person, of course.

[The General]

Female abductor?   I didn't mention anyone.   It could even be someone who happened to get an OC badge.

So this abductor could be a male? (Perhaps an English speaking maintenance operative, or middle management). Persuading MM to trot off to see her mummy, leaving her siblings alone?
pfffft.

[Lace]

So this abductor could be a male? (Perhaps an English speaking maintenance operative, or middle management). Persuading MM to trot off to see her mummy, leaving her siblings alone?
pfffft.

Madeleine would be very sleepy,  if she saw someone wearing an OC badge or if the person said he/she worked for the OC then I think she may have been reassured enough to be carried away.  IMO

[The General]

Madeleine would be very sleepy,  if she saw someone wearing an OC badge or if the person said he/she worked for the OC then I think she may have been reassured enough to be carried away.  IMO

But I thought this window of opportunity was negligible, given the rigorous checking regime and the fact the Tapas Bar was essentially like dining in your back yard?
The audacity of these disguised, elusive, ingenious, persuasive, successful abductors - who can also knock up a mean chilli dog and conduct a kids club wi.........hang on.........kids club! Why didn't this criminal mastermind take their opportunity when there were 30 kids to choose from, being chaperoned by two teenage girls? Or were they waiting to cherry pick David's progeny?

[Vertigo Swirl]

I find it odd that some people here seem to believe that taking part in a planned abduction of someone else’s kid would have the same debilitating emotional and physical impact on that person as someone discovering their child had just been killed in an accident and deciding to hastily dispose of the body.

[G-Unit]

I find it odd that some people here seem to believe that taking part in a planned abduction of someone else’s kid would have the same debilitating emotional and physical impact on that person as someone discovering their child had just been killed in an accident and deciding to hastily dispose of the body.

Just because you assume otherwise?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Just because you assume otherwise?

I beg your pardon?  It’s not me doing the assuming, if you care to re-read my post.