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Lee_D:
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Why don't you all plaster your cars with all the kids that have gone missing and not being found in the last 2 months, you might not even fit them all on!
Or why not after this has passed its sell by date, have your care re-done with another missing childs photos.......
Whats so important about this case.... Youc could even help out looking for missing kids in YOUR area.
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I'm unaware of any other British infants who have gone misisng on holiday having been abducted currently.
As for your comments about looking for local kids - I do Daily and as the Inspector of the Local constabulary control room I have an overview of exactly who is and isn't reported missing in my area but thanks for the suggestion all the same. Indeed were there a infant missing locally in such circumstances I'd be out there every hour of my rest days.
If any other infants go missing in similar circumstances I'd gladly plaster my car with them too to raise the profile in areas where the profile needed to be raised. I can say that no infants in my area have been abducted for the last 4 weeks and as such I don't currently have my car plastered.
This isn't a flame reply it's pretty much fact.
Keri:
I just don't get all the hype about one person, when there are other equally bad things happening all over the place.Its just seems to have gone far over board......
Surly its not good for you or your family for you to be "taking work home" in your rest days!
I don't have kids but i don't think you need to have kids to understand how a loss feels tbh
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Trying to be the person sitting on the fence here. There are a lot of points raised that are viable. If it was my kid missing, I would be prepared to sell my soul to Old Nick himself to get her back, and I would probably do everything legally possible (as well as a few illegal things) to try and find the kid.
I don't have any faith, I find it all too hypocritical for words, but if it raises awareness, so be it. If the parents seek solace from seeing the Pope, then good for them.
As someone who has been involved in countless searches for missing people over the years, I will echo what Lee D says.
You do get emotionally involved, and yes it does hurt when the worst happens.
I suggest that we give support in any way we can whenever a person goes missing.
Is it worth while as an organisation that covers the entire Country and parts of the Continent, that we make approaches to all Authorities offering our help re people and vehicles to help with searches.
Sider:
Without getting into the polemics of wether they should have left the child alone, or whether the fund is right or not, or any of the other shenanigans...
Has anyone stopped to think that Portugal (as indeed Spain, France and most of South Western Europe are still predominantly catholic countries????
I'm not too sure my English is good enough to convey the thought properly, so bear with me:
You'd be surprised to see what religion means to some people, more so a religion like Catholicism, where guilt is something you are born with, educated and fed on. It would not be unheard of for some tough guy to give himself up after a chat with a priest, or for some wacky character to see the sudden light and decide to walk the pious path. It springs to mind the case of a rather nasty spate of murders in Southern Spain in the 60s, where the Police were clueless, and out of the blue this chap walked into a police station and confessed to the murders, only because he had watched the Archbishop of Madrid on TV giving a sermon about the case. (It was just coincidental, BTW, not any kind of special programme, just the usual Sunday broadcasted mass).
There is actually a relativelly realistic chance of this meeting resulting in someone having a serious attack of the good ole conscience, and either confessing to the abduction or spilling the beans on the abductor.
At the end of the day, any good catholic (and quite a few bad ones) still believes in eternal damnation...
hairyasswelder:
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--- Quote ---This isn't a pet cat we are talking about.
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If it was people would be falling over to get their money in to help :?
Its a bloody strange world :?
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Well, the fund stands at £375,000, and the reward is £2.5m, so do you really think people aren't digging deep? I just can't really see how £375,000 is going to help get the child back.
Having seen children in various parts of the world living in abject poverty I find it odd that people will spend hundreds of thousands to try to save one British child whilst overlooking the millions of others around the world who are starving, disease-ridden, torn apart by war, etc. Saving lives is an honourable thing to be doing, but why the imbalance?
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not quite what I meant :oops: more that SOME people would give their last penny to save a cat and the value of human life is .... well..... not worth a second thought :cry:
Steve
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