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HALIFAX EVENING COURIER: “Child-tracking device gives parents holiday peace of mind”
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
AN enterprising duo are to rent out child tracking devices and satellite navigation systems to holidaymakers at an airport. Friends David Molloy and Tony Waite, both born and raised in Halifax, have set up Stressless Journeys Ltd.
Stress free… Where do we sign for our bottle of Calpol/gin/valium?
Inside every tragedy there’s a marketing opportunity waiting to get out. Just ask Jennifer Hudson…
To Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, where Dave and Tone are spreading the fear, and making a handy profit…
David said: “This brings piece of mind. It sets a virtual boundary for your kids. You are immediately alerted – when it starts bleeping they need to come back. We’re aiming at the travel market so the natural step was to go to an airport.”
If only…
He said the case of missing toddler Madeleine McCann had increased parents’ fears about their children’s safety while abroad and this was the ideal solution.
Kerching!!!
THE PRESS (York): “A prank too far this time”
“HERE’S one way to write a newspaper column. Pick your topic, work out what everyone thinks and then say the exact opposite, just for the sake of being contrary,” writes Julian Cole
But keep it legal. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross were crude but broke no laws…
Here’s a thing. Some of the papers screaming about Brand and Ross recently had to pay out damages to friends of the McCann family.
Bingo! Here’s how to write a column: make mention of Madeleine McCann and fill in the blanks with any players in the current big story.
Express Newspapers agreed to pay £375,000 in libel damages to the so-called “Tapas Seven”, the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who were with the couple in Portugal when Madeleine McCann disappeared.
This was on top of the £550,000 the Express has already paid out to the McCanns themselves.
All true…
The journalism professor Brian Cathcart, writing in New Statesman, refers to “the great balloon of speculative nonsense that was the McCann story” and the way certain newspapers used their power to kill discussion of how this story was mishandled in sections of the press.
So here’s your chance to investigate, Mr Cole…
This seems about right to me, and while the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross story is a mere distraction by comparison – even if Gordon Brown has found time to weigh in – it does remind us that some national newspapers rush to pillory people in the public eye with shameless enthusiasm, while preferring not to look at their own behaviour.
Should all newspapers come with an apology, a column that lists all the errors made? Yeah, a column – over to you…
THE RESIDENT (Portugal): “Integrity of G. Amaral questioned in police brutality case”
LAWYERS WILL be questioning the integrity of Gonçalo Amaral during the current court hearing of the alleged police torture of Leonor Cipriano, the mother of missing girl Joana, who disappeared in 2004 from Figueira near Portimão
They believe it to be an integral part of the trial to demonstrate the character of the former lead detective in the subsequent case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Meanwhile back at the airport…
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October 31st, 2008 at 8:07 am
Frist!!!!!!!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Sceond
October 31st, 2008 at 8:51 am
I am not interested in 3rd
October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Another tiny step towards microchipping the children.
But, suppose, just suppose, that MM was abducted.
At 50 m from the apartment the alarm sounds.
KM leaves the table and walks, or runs, the 100 metres from the Tapas bar to the apartment and finds… That MM is not there.
And then runs back to the tapas bar to get help.
How is that an improvement on the current situation ?
Why would you pay money for such a device ?
October 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Has “THE RESIDENT ” reported about the exchanges which took place in Faro
Courthouse on the previous days of this “Trial” ?
No ?
Oh, I see.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:27 am
Potential “Abductors” will now, no doubt, always carry a set of good cutters when
on their foray’s.
Snip….and little Jane, Matilda, or John, will still appaer to be absolutely safe to
mum and dad and allow them to continue their enjoyments.
Hmmmm….
October 31st, 2008 at 9:50 am
Actually Peter Mac in this case, it was the parents who should have been tagged so that when they strayed too far away from unattended babies their head exploded like in that Arnie movie
October 31st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Best point so far!! @ penster
October 31st, 2008 at 10:16 am
RichUKinNL Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Would be quite gory though.
Would there be a safeguard device incorporated to ensure that nobody nearby,
perhaps sitting at a table next to the miscreants, in, for instance, a Tapas
Restaurant, would be blown to bits, or covered in the splattered gore ?
October 31st, 2008 at 10:53 am
what happened to the3arses website? have they been hacked? because the relationship between Metodo and the people who are hell bent on discrediting Amaral has been exposed? Did the McScams pay for the dam dredgign smokescreen?
M and A
Just checked the 3a’s seems its their turn today, we wus ‘acked yesterday.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Good morning
I cant wait to go out as one of jack the rippers victims tonight!
This remiinds me of those stupid wristbands they were giving out for the sea side on GMTV.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am
brandon flours Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Good morning, brandon.
Which one ?
All rather grisly.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Marcos Aragão Correia quoting re request by M3…..
“They’ve asked me to get in the Case”
Did he misinterpret their request ?
Did they really mean that he “get in the cae with the dolls” ?
We should be tolled.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Lorraine shows her support
“I remember losing Rosie in a department store once,” says Lorraine. “I turned around and she wasn’t there.
“She was probably missing for only a minute but it seemed like hours.”
“I was frantic with worry, you imagine all sorts of things. Thankfully she was found only seconds later by a security guard, but anything that can reunite lost children with parents quickly gets my backing.”
Fiona approves
“That feeling of getting lost from your mum and dad as a child never leaves you,” says Fiona.
“Now that I have children of my own, I know how quickly they can disappear, no matter how closely you watch them.
“These wristbands are a great idea.”
Keeping track
The second - and no less important - aim of the wristband is to cut down the time a lost child spends separated from its parents. The wristbands should be put on a child when they are playing outside, on holiday, at a funfair, or when out shopping with their parents.
Parents should place their contact number on the wristband - a mobile number is most appropriate - so that if the child gets lost and another person finds them then they can simply phone the number.
Essential advice
The charity Kidscape says it’s very important not to leave small children alone in unsupervised play areas, in shops and shopping centres. Especially with the youngest children the best advice is to stay with them all the time. Most importantly, don’t ask strangers to keep an eye on them, for whatever reason.
With all children, teach them their address and phone number, so they can be brought back more easily if they get lost.
You can also write their name and address on a piece of paper so they can keep on their person - or better still a tag like the 250,000 being made available at Thomson travel agents across the country.
Kidscape safety advice
* To be safe - this is their basic right
* To protect their bodies
* To say no - it’s OK to say no if someone is trying to hurt them
* To tell - they can tell you anything and you will not be angry with them
* To be believed - they need to know they will be supported
* Don’t keep secrets - some should never be kept
* To refuse touches - tell your children they can say no to touching and kissing if they don’t like it
* Try not to talk to strangers
* To break the rules - if it means they will stay safe, they can run away, scream, lie or kick
Three golden rules
1. Agree a meeting place every time you go out
2. If they get lost, make sure they stay in one place
3. Tell someone to call the number on the wristband
Claim your free Tag Your Tots wristband from branches of Thomson Holidays the week beginning July 3, 2006
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It also goes a darker colour informing parents when to apply more sun screen
It does not say however if it can save a child who falls in water, goes in the road, or whose parents decide to leave them at home on their own
October 31st, 2008 at 11:27 am
“”1. Agree a meeting place every time you go out”"
I wonder which agreed meeting place was decided in PDL ?
“Ok, underlings 3, meet us in the Tapas Restaurant if you have any problems”.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“Parents should place their contact number on the wristband - a mobile number is most appropriate - so that if the child gets lost and another person finds them then they can simply phone the number.”… and so that the kidnapper can ring his demands through directly to the parents, rather than having to go through the media.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
And the millions of yellow MM wristbands worked perfectly, as did the balloons, and the blow up road sign.
And all that prayer from everyone including the Pope. Great help.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
And so that the child is immediately identifiable as a ‘lost child’, rather than as a local child walking purposefully towards its parents, and which may therefore be enticed with sweets and soft talks and promises …..
For Gods’s sake. Do these people never think any of this through ?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
plus if a fellow is seen talking to a child with a wristband and walking off with them, will it be assumed that the person is finding the kids parents and not abducting them ?
What a great excuse for them, no need for a boot of puppies and the lost mother puppy abroad.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Or that he is the child’s parent,
Or that he is the local predatory Paedo who can lawfully be killed on the spot
Or that he is an avid collector of wristbands
Or the child’s uncle
Or elder brother
Or
Or
Why don’t they think it through ?
October 31st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Matt. Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Marcos Aragão Correia quoting re request by M3…..
“They’ve asked me to get in the Case”
Did he misinterpret their request ?
Did they really mean that he “get in the cae with the dolls” ?
We should be tolled.
……………………………………………………………
Now! - Funnily enough ……. I have a super-duper massive big case full of dollies!
I now have the ‘Bruised and Battered”‘ dolly collection - incorporating the ‘Self-Harm Dollies’.
Fucking Hell! What is it that makes women whose children have died or disappeared in mysterious circumstances start chucking their bodies downstairs or fisting the walls? lol
Anyway - these Dollies come in a soft padded box and wear soft padded straight-jackets and soft padded romper-suits!
This is because they have been through enough with their children dying - without having to go to prison as well!!!
So if any dolly tries to chuck herself down some stairs - or ….. errrrr ….
starts fisting the walls and having hissy-fits …… errrrr ……. they will be protected from …… errrrr …… themselves!
And just as an aside …………. We don’t need parents to explode or silly wrist-bands that will end up like those grubby friendship bracelets that hippies used to wear - PARENTS MERELY HAVE TO JUST LOOK AFTER THEIR FUCKING KIDS PROPERLY AND NOT DRAG THEM AROUND THE SHOPS OR FUCK OFF OUT FOR AN EVENING LEAVING THEM ALL ALONE IN THE DARK!
It really is that fucking simple! Errrrr ….. especially if you hav ethe feeling you are being watched!
If you can’t look after your kids - give them to another person who wants them more than you do …….. which errrrr …….. brings to mind another story ……. Errrrrrr …….. What’s like happenin’ with the fucking WOC bollocks???
LP and UK Police! - Where are you doing your investigations regarding MM a three years old British Subject???
Let me know!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Sorry to have missed all my favourite posters but Eddie and Keela have had me absolutely rat-arsed this past couple of days.
It has been non-stop drinking and merriment and mirth all week.
Amaral left them both a message yesterday - but they are not allowed to tell me what it was about!
They are very, very professional! Woof! Woof! Grrrr!
They were only saying this morning - that this is the Night of the Dead and All Saints - and how weird it would be if M turned up in Rothley tonight …….
October 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Am I like the Kiss of Death on here or what?
No matter what time of day I come on - I always feel alone - like McCann kid on holiday! lol
Are you all tapping into my web-cam waiting for me to be asleep? lol
October 31st, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Yes.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
no
October 31st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
coco, hi
October 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Coco , people probably cant type for laughing , I am on phone and have to go to toystore now as it is sons birthday tomorrow , will be back soon , xxxx
October 31st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
coco , pam has turned up , that will give you some ammo to keep you going for a while !
October 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
DORIS! SAM XX
October 31st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
hi coco again. can;t think of much to say but good to read you