McGuckin In McCann Peril: Foreign Crimes In Foreign Climes
BRITONS planning trips to the new Portugal should go equipped with a loud hailer, a private detective and nothing too shiny. If on a driving holiday, ensure the boot can be opened from within.
Listen to the tale told by Eamon and Antionette McGuckin, who found their three children in the care of the Portuguese – and what irony there, readers – after they were attacked by a “Rohypnol gang”.
One would imagine that given the paralysing powers of the so-called date rape drug, the Rohypnol Gang are not much cop at ganging, preferring to lie down and wait their victim to trip over them. It would help if the victims were drunk.
But this gang is armed with the drug and slipping it into the “small jug” of sangria the McGuckins were quaffing, sipping, even. (Although the Mirror’s Sue Carroll sees the “dog tired, hot and thirsty” couple taking beer – mucky foreign beer.)
Says a friend of the family, namely a Dr Cyril Harkin: “Neither of them are big drinkers. They have tried to understand what happened and have linked the sangria with the sudden decline in their health. They believe they were drugged by someone trying to rob them.”
The GP puts the tin lid on the matter by saying: “The Portuguese authorities are paranoid after the Madeleine McCann case.”
We are not anti-foreigner, and are quite confident that if the entire peoples of continental Europe were placed in a cell we could find a dozen for a game of cricket and a scorer, but can only conclude that the vast mojortity Portuguese are the scum of the Earth and in need of hanging…
Posted: 7th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (448) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
289 Ferdinand
Do you keep records of all your posts
Good idea bu that wasn’t the one but close I think
Glad to hear you are open-minded although Gandolf seems to dislike that;)
May 7th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
294
Ferdinand Says: ”Well, we don’t need to be happy to get drunk, here.
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An unhappy drunk. Gawd, nothing worse.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
286
Scarlett Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Chenier, are you are being sarcastic, if there had been a fine toothcomb search in May why search again in September?
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Because someone may have made a mistake.
Because not all dogs are as well trained as Eddie and Keela.
Because it’s not like the tv programmes; fallibility is inevitable.
The way you deal with the existence of fallibility, if you are a professional, is to recheck over and over again.
But it’s worth bearing in mind that the police’s first duty was to try and find a live child.
Cadaver dogs can’t do that…
May 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
285 Marie Nicholas Says:
” I’ll tell you something Ferdinand, the Mediterraneans know how to enjoy life, simple life, that is what you perhaps are jealous of. ”
Yes I am. But not quite when it comes to burocratic issues.
” We don’t need to get drunk to be happy, here. ”
Well, we don’t need to be happy to get drunk, here.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
…..needed, I’ve some sewing to do…..Sorry-someone has probably already done that one.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
New thread……
May 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
285
Marie Nicholas
Oh…Marie,I totally agree
In Frnace,I guess it might be a little bit more civilised but in Spain AND Portugal?I”d rather drop the topic.
Ferdinand,?Dont let yourself intoxicated by his xenophobic and snobbish posts
May 7th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Chenny, I dont think AW will be able to make her mind up about that one!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
279 AgendaWide Says:
” You also mentioned that you had made your choice ‘I have made my choice’ on your stance which doesn’t sound very open-minded??? ”
If I remember correctly, the statement was
” The question is whether you chose to believe in an unconfirmed statement of an ex-cop or in confirmed statements of two physicians. I have made my choice. ”
My choice in this case was to believe the confirmed statements. I don’t remember what the statements in question actually were.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
221
Logic Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
214 Sam
Your friend was very lucky that the hospital diagnosed him at all. Often people who have an epileptic fit are presumed to be drunk and left lying in the street. Quite often they die.
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Just catching up here. Logic - name me two people who have died in the street after an epileptic seizure being mistaken for alcohol intoxication. You seem to think it is ‘quite often.’
May 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
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Gandolf Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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No; I think this is far more appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACePi441ds&feature=related
May 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Jo
I’m rarely furious, but my blood is boiling right now. I’m thinking of the poor chaotic Mediterranean charwomen cleaning the vomit from the smug civilised drunkards….
I’ll tell you something Ferdinand, the Mediterraneans know how to enjoy life, simple life, that is what you perhaps are jealous of. Even my little American grand-daughter realised that. She discovered here that you can enjoy yourself a lot without doing anything forbidden, or naughty. It was a naive way of putting it, but she discovered wisdom. We don’t need to get drunk to be happy, here.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Chenier, are you are being sarcastic, if there had been a fine toothcomb search in May why search again in September?
May 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
too little too late?
http://angelsresort.yuku.com/topic/602
May 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
278
Scarlett Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I’m assuming those roadworks in PDL were throughly checked out at the time, with forensic teams and sniffer dogs etc.
They would be, wouldn’t they?
They were, weren’t they?
Anyone know?
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No, Scarlett, of course they weren’t.
All of the police involved are in such dire need of synaptic supplementation that it never occurred to any of them to look in all the obvious places.
Instead they read the many helpful communications from mediums, and are still hoping that someone on the other side will, at some point, give them an address to visit. One involving pyramids would be especially welcome…
May 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
The McGukins new theme song.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_sB-oq5_I
May 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
277 Thankx Sam
275 very interesting Jo.
Must get on at home
May 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
260 Marie Nicholas Says:
” You constantly appear as wanting to find fault with the Mediterraneans, not thinking them worthy of being trusted, versus the civilised people from Northern Europe. I find it terrible. I am not Mediterranean myself, my family is from Lorraine in France, but I live in a Mediterranean part of France, I love the people, whom I find very civilised, with an art of living, and it makes me sick to hear the people who come here, and despise them. ”
First I confess that my image of “mediterranians” is mainly based on my experience in Italy and Greece. Secondly, I have never said they should not be trusted. Sometimes their bureaucratic procedures seem a bit complicated, but at the same time they have their ways to cope with it by improvisation. As I said, there is nothig wrong with it. Although it can sometimes tax you patience. The McGuckin story of Saturday forenoon would be a good example.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Ferdinand 274
You also mentioned that you had made your choice ‘I have made my choice’ on your stance which doesn’t sound very open-minded???
May 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I’m assuming those roadworks in PDL were throughly checked out at the time, with forensic teams and sniffer dogs etc.
They would be, wouldn’t they?
They were, weren’t they?
Anyone know?
May 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
259
AgendaWide Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
253 brandon flours
The article mentioned that of course pyramids were funerary and this pyramid house is called the house of grief (dun livin???) I May Google Earth PDL later and look for it - the photos of PDL have seriously improved.
Have to get on with dinner preparation now.
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there was a link yesterday to a pdf file from, i think someone who lives in pdl, in the pdf is an ariel view where you can see the pyramid in a garden. i wouldn’t know where to start looking for that link.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
It seems they are nowhere near giving up though
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i hope so.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
“7.. RE: MASONIC SIGNS and ALERTS
Of course we’ve all heard rumours of masonic handshake and so on. Someone pointed out that not only is there a masonic pyramid next to mark warner hotel, but that the eagle atop is looking directly towards the mccanns apartment!!! in an occult sort of way… this last bit is heresay and so I suspect is not true. IIrrespective, the presence of such a pyramid bang next door, does indicate that there are some masonic lovers down in P de Luz!”
“The other interesting thing about the pyaramid near MWarner… as some might remember re DD013… mccanns seemed to hold a press conference with the pyramid in the background shot. If you were a mason (gerry) and wanted to let your international brothers to know you needed help - this would be a good way to do it via your masonic brother - i.e. the murdoch media empire”
http://briansdreams.com/MISSING/private/5441page22.htm
May 7th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
257 AgendaWide Says:
” Ferdinand - all will be forgiven if you confess to what you meant when you said that you regarded yourself as part of the Virtual Tapas Group and that you had made your choice!!! (especially if you said you were broke and the pay was good?)
Hu, I said I was broke? Don’t think so. Someone asked me if I was Team McCann, and I answered I am virtual team Tapas7. But that does only mean that I felt pity for them because they did nothing questionable at all, didn’t seek the media, didn’t raise a fund and that all. That was before the interviews, when they were seen as conspirers by some of the audience.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
248
brandon flours Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
sorry, went off to do some kitchen.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
270
Gandolf Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
AgendaWide, you catch on quick, never.
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What, not even for parking?
May 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
LOOK what simialar thing happened to the “Potts” children whilst abroad
Could this be George Harrisonn man ?………..Looks more like Boy George to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JzI8Zxx5A
May 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
AgendaWide, you catch on quick, never.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
266 Gandolf
‘…there will be no convictions’
At all??? ever???
May 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
260
Marie Nicholas Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Ferdiand
You constantly appear as wanting to find fault with the Mediterraneans, not thinking them worthy of being trusted, versus the civilised people from Northern Europe. I find it terrible. I am not Mediterranean myself, my family is from Lorraine in France, but I live in a Mediterranean part of France, I love the people, whom I find very civilised, with an art of living, and it makes me sick to hear the people who come here, and despise them.
We utterly despise the drunkards.
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They make me sick
Anyhow,why do northen europeans keep coming? I really wonder
(Do you know Epinal?
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