Five-year-old April Jones kidnapped in Machynlleth, Mid-Wales
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
It's interesting how swiftly facebook groups are set up for things like this
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
or, imo more likely, to get a vicarious thrill
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
You're right, this sort of thing should be kept quiet to avoid 'thrill-seekers'.
One of the FB groups looks to be set up by her mum, why don't you go tell her that. I expect the poor woman just wanted to feel she was doing something.
dylans
overlord of all acorns
I don't think she was on her own. Wasn't her abduction witnessed by some other kids? The article says
Anyway it says she was near her home. Perhaps its the kind of place where people have always felt safe letting their kids play in the street. Rather than have a go at her mom, we should be asking ourselves why kids being able to play out is considered so unusual.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Did it make you feel better, putting words in my mouth?You're right, this sort of thing should be kept quiet to avoid 'thrill-seekers'.
One of the FB groups looks to be set up by her mum, why don't you go tell her that. I expect the poor woman just wanted to feel she was doing something.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Exactly what I thought. Kids won't be allowed to play out on their own there anymore.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Mrs Bears' initial reaction was "what was she doing out on her own?", it's a shame that this isn't seen as normal any more.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19800140
Based on the quality of this article they should be looking for the 5-year-old in the BBC's copy-editing department.
Based on the quality of this article they should be looking for the 5-year-old in the BBC's copy-editing department.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Maybe because it is an ongoing police operation - I mean I know the Megan/Jeremy thing was as well but this is a bit more immediate iyswim so maybe the media feel they need to be a bit more circumspect?This story is getting a LOT less media (and Urban) attention than Meg and Jezza did
Yeah, yeah, same old story. What tensions?? I suppose the locals all talk in that 'coded' language of ours and about you, I suspect. Listen, the locals have put up with years of 'incomers' (your word), coming in and seeking an 'alternative lifestyle' and the 'good-life' and, thus, transforming a town that was once simply a rural and peaceful Welsh indigenous community, where the language thrived, into a mini Glastonbury. And I'd say that these 'incomers' have managed quite well, despite the 'tensions' you're on about. And just because the locals haven't embraced this 'alternative' lifestyle, I suppose you think that they're the ones marching out of step, in Mach. Just like when the pioneers first went to America, they too thought that the Natives were hostile, when in all reality, they weren't accustomed to these new and strange ways of foreigners. What efforts have the 'incomers' made to embrace the language and culture in the heartland of Wales, I wonder. Empathise a bit, won't you?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Incomers?
leave it out you fucking vulture.
bignose1
Searchlight Spoiler
Their usually worse!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Nasty indeed, I once lost sight of my 5 year old walking her to her classroom. We were already on the school grounds and it was only for about 30 seconds, but I almost died inside. I cannot imagine what the parents are going though.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Yep, my daughter once toddled off through the usually locked back gate when I was on the phone. Longest ten mins of my life searching for her and screaming her name. Police car picked her up at the other end of the street. Never have I felt such a sense of panic
Her poor, poor parents.
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