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mary80 | 13:25 Wed 30th Apr 2008 | News
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Are they ever going to stop digging that hole any bigger?

The McCanns now say how they considered taking their three children with them to another restaurant called the Millennium further away, but rejected the idea only because they did not have a buggy, they said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7374225.stm

They considered. How big of them to actually pause before they went and left them there all alone.
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I don't see what was wrong with Kate saying that?

I've said time and time again. that poor couple have to live with the consequences of that selfish act they did for the rest of their lives. Why kick them when they're down?
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"KIck them while their down", are you being serious? I know this subject has been discussed at length, but please don't sympathize with them. Sympathize with poor Maddie and her brother and sister for having them as parents.

They should be prosecuted for leaving those children alone.
Here we go again.
I agree with everything B00 said!
I dont know why its taken them a year to mention that.
And the mob's knife twist again...

I'm with you entirely, Boo.

Mary, sympathising with Maddie is a given. Everyone does.

But is your pool of goodwill so stupidly shallow that you can't feel for more than one party? You can't accept that someone has made a harrowing error that will haunt them so for the rest of their lives? Are you that blinkered? No, are you that thick?

What happens in these debates is people make pathetic attempts to big up their own parenting skills or their own goodness by slagging off an easy target like the McCanns. They think it makes them look more caring and responsible in comparison. Why? Because they've looked at themselves are don't like what they see. Psychology level 1.

Please Answerbank - set up a whole section for the McCann thing. Then these salivating ghouls who seriously get off on this case (almost sexually) can feed their egos in peace.

In the meantime, please do carry on slating them and making yourselves seem even dumber than I think you are already - which by the way, Mary, is very very dumb indeed.

Love you!
"I can't believe I'm reading this!"

did someone force you to read it?
why this eagerness to criticise people who are in trouble enough already? Why will saying anything like this make the 'hole' any bigger? Are you suggesting that saying it will somehow make them feel even worse? I have to doubt it.
Ok Mary they made a silly error, no need to pile your vitriol on them. You may well be perfect most of us are not. Try and empathise and see what you'd make of all the Bile. It's a gimmee they where stupid and selfish, they lost a child, should they be punished ad infinitum?
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They made the choice to leave their children unattended, one is now missing feared dead. They should be prosecuted accordingly.

Quinlad: Your comments are beyond belief, to imply people get off on discussing this case is a sick jibe. We are all allowed an opinion, you with your holier than thou forgiving one and me with the majority of peoples thoughts. I'll say what I feel is right you can criticize all you want but please keep your cheap offendish remarks to yourself.
does anyone have any new news on the Shannon case ? I

Thanks.

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The ins and outs of this sorry business have been aired enough and I will not add to them.

However, if the McCanns want to avoid any more public vilification they should now adopt a lower public profile:

- They no longer need a "team" to see them through their ordeal.

- They certainly should not attempt to cash in by writing a book about their experiences.

- Finally, they should get on with their lives and try to restore some normality for the sake of their other two children (whose needs seem to have been somewhat overlooked in all of this).
To be honest with the Mcwotsits I think that them waking up every morning and living with guilt is punishment enough.

We all know they are a pathetic excuse at parents and Gerry spent no time with his kids on the holiday prefering to pay tennis. The pics of him with his daughter show someone totally detached and not really wanting to be there.

They shouldnt be given any more opportunities to say they should have done things differently. She aint coming back, let them live with the guilt.
Actually I can't believe it took until 13:25 for someone to submit a post slating the McCann's - usually the self righteous on here are falling over themselves to get their post in first!!
I entirely agree with Boo, Daffy, Quinlad, jno and even R1 .
Mary, (and your ilk), go take a flying one, and leave these poor people alone.
Blimey!

Just checked back on this post and I have to say I'm heartened by folk agreeing with me on this particular post!

I've always had total sympathy for the McCann family and apart from one or two people I'm usually on my own with my sympathy.

I for one am often appalled by peoples almost gleeful baying of blood where the McCanns are concerned.

Yes they made a dreadful mistake- one which they and the entire family will suffer from for the rest of their lives. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Shame on anyone for wishing ill on this family.
Why the hell are people writing them nasty Christmas cards???

What kind of sick individual would take time out of their day to do that.

This is a case of media overdrive. People get fed up because they think that the McCanns are getting more publicity than most would under these circumstances.
Wether or not they are responsible for their child going missing seems to be here nor there any more.
I wondered to start with wether they might be at the bottom of it all (guilty as charged I to have had my fair share of dislike towards these two people) but now I don't think they were but because the media pounce upon every bit of evidnce or word that is spoken by them then it gets turned into slurry and becomes subject to every arm chair detective.
Wether they did or they didn't makes no difference now. They will be paying for it for a long time to come. It still does not bring back their child does it.
No body made you read it. If you feel so venemently then don't give them the time of day if your feeling is that strongly about it. I don't read about things that make me feel that angry.
Give it all break until something really substantial turns up.
Word error that should read 'neither here nor there'.
Boo why do you have total sympathy?

I know they are living with what they have done which is punishment enough but as a parent how can you have any sympathy whatsover for a couple who have neglected their children?

Like you SP I was pretty disgusted when I read that! And to think people like that think they are better than them!!!

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