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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: Monsieur Rioux
       Date: February 17, 2022, 10:20 am
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       > Found with her Mother hiding in plain sight at her husband's
       fathers house (both the father and the grandfather were
       arrested), parents removed her from her 'legal guardian'.
       "Found alive" is overly dramatical..
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       Four year old girl missing for two years and not found dead
       somewhere...reporting as found alive seems perfectly reasonable.
       The hidden in plain sight (except for when the authorities come
       looking and then she's hidden out of sight) is what raises loads
       of questions.
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: Siouxie
       Date: February 17, 2022, 10:38 am
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       > Four year old girl missing for two years and not found dead
       somewhere...reporting as found alive seems perfectly reasonable.
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       > The hidden in plain sight (except for when the authorities
       come looking and then she's hidden out of sight) is what raises
       loads of questions.
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       To you maybe, to me it was over dramatised.
       There wasn't really a need to make "Alive" the focus of the
       report IMHO - why not make the focus of the report "found"
       instead, as the rest of the story showed that she was in good
       health... with her parents and grandparent.
       Some people just like to add drama to anything I suppose.
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       The question that comes to my mind is why there was a court
       appointed guardian and that they were still allowed
       unaccompanied access.
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: caretaker
       Date: February 20, 2022, 7:05 am
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       I see the Queen has covid; hope she'll be ok. ;)
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: macliam
       Date: February 20, 2022, 10:56 am
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       > I see the Queen has covid; hope she'll be ok. ;)
       >
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       At her age, it won't take much to push her off the perch, but
       that would certainly kybosh the Jubilee year!
       However, if anyone has access to the best treatment, it will be
       her - she is not like some old granny who can't get to see her
       GP because he doesn't do housecalls.
       I wish her a speedy recovery.
       #Post#: 4318--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: zzrmark
       Date: February 20, 2022, 8:07 pm
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       Probably best not to open the link if you have a sensitive
       disposition!!
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       So many questions. Was it a bad leg or a scam, and a circular
       saw, for crying out loud, that must have made quite the mess?
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: Expatrick
       Date: February 21, 2022, 6:05 am
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       "A clone of Newton's apple tree, which was planted at Cambridge
       University's Botanic Garden in 1954, has fallen during Storm
       Eunice."
       Proves Newton's theory - again!
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: Monsieur Rioux
       Date: February 21, 2022, 10:48 am
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       > Probably best not to open the link if you have a sensitive
       disposition!!
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       >
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       > So many questions. Was it a bad leg or a scam, and a circular
       saw, for crying out loud, that must have made quite the mess?
       >
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       Sounds like some kind of disability scam  ;)
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: caretaker
       Date: February 21, 2022, 11:21 am
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       The Westies (Irish gang in New York in the 70's and 80's) cut
       some people up with a circular saw, but they did it in bathtubs,
       except for once I think in a tiled bathroom in the bar.  It
       apparently makes quite a mess.
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: Siouxie
       Date: February 24, 2022, 12:24 pm
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       Ordinary people doing extraordinary things, surfers save man
       from being dragged out to sea by current
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       Re: Odds and ends in the news
   DIR By: caretaker
       Date: February 25, 2022, 6:39 pm
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       I stopped drinking Russian vodka in 1979 after they invaded
       Afghanistan.  My go-to is Luksusowa, Polish luxury vodka.
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