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…
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May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 am
ferdinand
They may have used valium for the flight and antihistemines, they forgot about too!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
49
Ferdinand
Once again it’s the same as in the McCann story. We don’t know nothing.
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Why try to link the 2 stories together?
They do not have much in common,have they? apart for the drinking binge,NO child has “mysteriously been kidnapped”
At least,the irish people was ashamed and showing their FEELINGS,crying and their embarassement.
In the mccanns cases,yes,we know “something”: a child [may have] died and whatever the odds,JUSTICE will be made to her
I have faith in the PJ and it was a very good move AGAIN to sack that idiot of ’Alipio Ribeiro
Edited by Carmen 12.13 07.05.08
May 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
49
Ferdinand Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
14 brandon flours Says:
” okay they could have down a bottle of duty free vodka very quickly…….but I dunno……
anyone slightly agree with me????? ”
The spiked drink theroy is certainly not less credible than the binge drinking theory. They are no teenagers or students at spring break
Once again it’s the same as in the McCann story. We don’t know nothing.
Only that the same plot that came as a tragedy is now reperformed as a farce.
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Ferdinand - on top of the three beers, we now have a jug of sangria……… It is not exactly rocket science to work out that they would have had a pretty good buzz going on.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
45
chenier Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am
40
Miss Match Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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The British abroad have a somewhat unfortunate track record on ‘the morning after’.
The favourite is the criminals ‘pumping gas’ into the caravan, thus leaving its inhabitants feeling terrible and with much less money…
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The excuses for being ‘out of it’ could be quite entertaining at times.
Blaming inhalation of the paint chemicals from a freshly painted wall was one of my favourites.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:10 am
stevet
May 7th, 2008 at 11:10 am
49…Ferdinand
I think they are telling porkies.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
44 Steve T - I was working outside of the USA but in a resort popular with Americans. We would not report having found traces of cocaine in blood or urine to law enforcement authorities as our priority is a person’s health. If the patient was under 18 years of age, we would report it to their parent/guardian/group leader.
If narcotics were found on their person, then the local law enforcement agencies would be informed.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
46
SteveT
…and my sanskrit comes along perfectly
May 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
14 brandon flours Says:
” okay they could have down a bottle of duty free vodka very quickly…….but I dunno……
anyone slightly agree with me????? ”
The spiked drink theroy is certainly not less credible than the binge drinking theory. They are no teenagers or students at spring break
Once again it’s the same as in the McCann story. We don’t know nothing.
Only that the same plot that came as a tragedy is now reperformed as a farce.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
47
brandon flours
He could well be.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Is that delboy french ?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
42
brandon flour
I can speak word perfect French after a few drinks. (well in my mind) Sober, cant even get a sentence out.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am
40
Miss Match Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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The British abroad have a somewhat unfortunate track record on ‘the morning after’.
The favourite is the criminals ‘pumping gas’ into the caravan, thus leaving its inhabitants feeling terrible and with much less money…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am
40
Miss Match
Just out of interest, if a teenager was found in the US with cocaine in their system would they be charged?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I have submitted a comment to Blue asking her to join the Anorak blog. I am just curious to kow where her comments of yesterday have gone
May 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Stevet
giggling at tele
ordering a takeaway and cant decide
losing the remotes
going for a wee at every break
flirting with the take away man on the phone
forget you phoned it and wonder whos at the door for a few minutes whilst picking up a remote as a weapon
Have an interesting conversation in a foriegn language
cant eat any of it
start to watch a film but never see the end of it
May 7th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Carmen I didn’t post a link to a Sun article, gotta go, remember and fill Duncans bottles back up to the mark, he checks them you know!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Ahhhh, the rohypnol claim! The number of times I have heard this before in my varied work as a nurse. It was generally American teenagers who would go out and get absolutely smashed on shots. Very quickly, they would be unable to stand up and sometimes were unconscious. Of course, their parents or group leader would all claim that they never drank alcohol, were ’straight A’ students, were the son/daughter of a minister….. and then the rohypnol claim would be made. We would take urine and blood specimens of course to measure for any narcotics and do a blood alcohol level at the same time.
Guess what? I never once came across rohypnol. Alcohol was always the culprit, sometimes with traces of cannabis or cocaine……
May 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
31
brandon
Wow….. lots of experience there
ONLY joking
May 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I suspect that anyone who wants to track the McGs actions on the day would have no real difficulty.
And I would have thought that if they really had any kind of evidence to back up their claim the Foreign Office would simply have advised them to present it to the court…
May 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
36…SteveT
I swirl through all of them at Stage 1.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am
31
brandon flours
I dont recognise any of that!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am
32..jo
No idea really…other that I have been told that Blue posts comments in the Brunt
blog.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
matt
usually asleep, before coma
May 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
31…brandon flours
And number 6 ?
Senseless and legless ?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:51 am
26
Matt
Whats this “Blue” about? do you know?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
The Five Stages Of Drunkenness
Drinking
* Stage 1 - Clever: This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject in the known universe. You know you know everything and you want to pass on your knowledge to anyone who will listen. At this stage you are always right. And, of course, the person you are talking to is very wrong. This takes for an interesting argument when both parties are CLEVER.
* Stage 2 - Attractive: This is when you realise that you are the most ATTRACTIVE person in the entire bar and that everyone fancies you. You can go up to a perfect stranger knowing that they fancy you and really want to talk to you. Bear in mind that you are still CLEVER, so you can talk to this person about any subject under the sun.
* Stage 3 - Rich: This is when you suddenly become the RICHEST person in the room. You can buy drinks for the entire bar because you have a bottomless wallet. You can also make bets at this stage, because of course you are still CLEVER so, naturally, you will always win. Anyway, it doesn’t matter how much you bet because you are RICH. You will also buy drinks for everyone that you fancy, in the knowledge that you are clearly the most ATTRACTIVE person present.
* Stage 4 - Invincible: You are now ready to pick fights with anyone and everyone, especially those with whom you have been betting or arguing. This is because you are now INVINCIBLE. At this point you can also go up to the partners of the people who you fancy and challenge them to a battle of wits or strength. You have no fear of losing this battle, because as well as being INVINCIBLE you are CLEVER, you’re RICH and you’re more ATTRACTIVE than them anyway.
* Stage 5 - Invisible: This is the final stage of drunkenness. At this point you can do anything, because you are now INVISIBLE. You can dance on a table to impress the people who you fancy because the rest of the people in the room cannot see you. You can also snog the face off them for the same reason. You are also INVISIBLE to the people who want to fight you. You can walk through the street singing at the top of your lungs because no one can see or hear you and because you’re still CLEVER you know all the words.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Gandy can’t count ?? Horrors.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
21
Matt
The more they undercalculate, it means the more they”ve drank
I have seen many of “them” reaching ethilic coma and insisting they didnt “drink that much”
Why are people so bloody fools?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Gandolf,
I had a look at your second attempt at posting and once again you had put two links in - one to the Sun article and a tinyurl one at the bottom of the post.