Was Madeleine Killed By Her Parents?

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Big Orange wrote:The Portuguese also have a very annoying habit of holding up shopping queues for an unnecessarily long time in order to go through their receipt. :x
LMAO

You must be kidding? Coming from a Brit, this is hilarious. Queuing is what your country does best! One English man could stop in the middle of a street and look at a hole in the wall, after a few minutes he'll turn around and see 5 other people in a line behind him. Sad, sad little flame bait post.
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Colonel Olrik wrote: If you being a moron wasn't a fact known by everyone of relevance here, I'd might even feel somewhat offended.
I know I'm not fully informed in many kinds of subjects, haven't earned a PhD in engineering or astrophysics and impulsively blurt out rubbish too many times so I am well aware of my failings and I am a moron in comparison to other members, but this is the first time I crossed tracks with you, Colonel Olrik, but next time it would hopefully be under better circumstances. I apologise for my lack of insight in my ill informed opinions.

To give you a more sensible and better thought out opinion, I would not be surprised that local policemen from a quiet and out of the way holiday resort would be out of their depth in solving a very important case, with things made worse by the the media pushing their noses into everything, then harassing witnesses, suspects, Madeline's family and jumping ahead of official announcements made by the authorities with their made up theories published in the tabloids and news reports, sowing serious disinformation amongst the public (especially when it came to innocent suspects like Robert Murat and throwing attention away from Madeline's parents who are now prime suspects).

But I haven't been reading much into the case, due to the contrived and sickening faux sentimentality the UK media has towards the missing girl, however I did hear about British police investigators helping the Portuguese police in this mess (the real monsters in this sorry mess are the UK media and very likely Madeline's parents). Can you please properly inform how competent Portugal's urban police are, so I won't crap out uninformed rubbish?
What the fuck? Portuguese shopping queues are no different from those, let's say, of the Germans. I know because in the first country I lived my first 24 years, and in the second since then. I've also been several times in your country and can't say I'm impressed by your shopping queues either. Where is this coming from? Did you use to get beaten up by a Portuguese at school, or something? Or maybe those last defeats in the Euro and World Cups are still too large a load for you to swallow?
I don't even like football and I have had no negative experience with the Portuguese, but it may have merely to do with the town I stayed in where I always had to wait in a check out queue longer than necessary due to the locals having this odd "system" of going through their shopping list for a prolonged length of time before packing up their goods and leaving. I had this ignorant theory that this odd form of methodical behaviour could apply to the Portuguese way of police investigation, but it came off as dumb stereotyping.
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Big Orange wrote:I always had to wait in a check out queue longer than necessary due to the locals having this odd "system" of going through their shopping list for a prolonged length of time before packing up their goods and leaving. I had this ignorant theory that this odd form of methodical behaviour could apply to the Portuguese way of police investigation, but it came off as dumb stereotyping.
Are you suggesting that methodically examining things whilst paying close attention to detail is a bad thing for police to do?

Checking your receipt at the supermarket is a perfectly reasonable thing to do as it’s not uncommon for them to scan stuff twice & overcharge you.
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Plekhanov wrote:
Big Orange wrote:I always had to wait in a check out queue longer than necessary due to the locals having this odd "system" of going through their shopping list for a prolonged length of time before packing up their goods and leaving. I had this ignorant theory that this odd form of methodical behaviour could apply to the Portuguese way of police investigation, but it came off as dumb stereotyping.
Are you suggesting that methodically examining things whilst paying close attention to detail is a bad thing for police to do?

Checking your receipt at the supermarket is a perfectly reasonable thing to do as it’s not uncommon for them to scan stuff twice & overcharge you.
Especially if you shop at a Co-Op ... fucking cunts! :finger:
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Big Orange wrote:Can you please properly inform how competent Portugal's urban police are, so I won't crap out uninformed rubbish?
Y'know for someone who made a particular arrogant statement and then literally sucked Olrik's cock like a $2 whore...you really are fucking stupid.

How about, you do some research before making ignorant statements and not rely upon others to do the work for you.
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Crown wrote:
Especially if you shop at a Co-Op ... fucking cunts! :finger:
Hey now, the Co-Op down the road from me is convenient, doesn't overcharge me and has a cute blonde student behind the counter. Least they're not taking over the planet like Tesco.

And BO, I think this is where I run the phrase "do not engage your mouth (or fingers, rather) without first consulting your brain", by you. The Portuguese police may be handling this differently, but that is by no means an excuse to insult the whole damn nation and one of our First One members.
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To be honest, it'll be sort of funny if they murdered her. If they did, they'll have essentially trolled an entire country. That ridiculous ad campaign, the enormous donations, insane media coverage, meeting the Pope and even pressuring members of Parliament, oh the fallout will be glorious to watch.
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The prosecutor just fobbed the case off to a Judge. Time for the fireworks.

I could make an incredibly foul joke involving a We Will Rock You quote....
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BBC wrote:Portuguese prosecutors are to hand to a judge the files on missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.

Madeleine's parents - who have been named as suspects - are now waiting to hear what action will be taken.

BBC reporter Caroline Hawley said the options available to the judge included ordering more search warrants and changing the McCanns' "arguido" status.

It had been thought the prosecutor would take longer to study the files, our correspondent said.

On Monday, police handed their files to the Algarve-based prosecutor, Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses, for him to decide whether to bring charges against Kate and Gerry McCann.

Speaking outside the prosecutor's office in Portimao, Luisa Duarte said Mr Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses had received the papers and decided they should go before an instructional judge.

The judge has 10 days to make a decision on the files' contents.

The McCanns are back at their home in Rothley in Leicestershire where Mr McCann has described the events of the past week as an "unending nightmare".
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