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- tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -33/+234Look, there will be a point where this is a valid question to ask. While this little girl is missing, that point in time is not now.
- iainwall, on 10/11/2007, -66/+266That isn't really a fair comment...
She was within supposed view of the parents. This is simply a terrible accident. Instead of playing the blame game, we should all be trying to help them in what ever way we can. - mrloco, on 10/11/2007, -22/+147I think its ridiculous how much coverage this is getting.
To set the record straight - I think that having you child abducted would be the WORST EVER thing that could happen to you and the McCanns have my condolences.
BUT!
There are thousands of cases like this in Latin america and other regions as well and they get jack ***** in terms of coverage. It's because it's a BRITISH girl that got kidnapped we get people setting their hair on fire and going *****. It would be oh so different if it were a portugese kid. - gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/11/2007, -41/+134It is a fair comment if you add "In a foreign country" to the end of it:
"If you leave your toddler alone for 30 minutes at a time," in a foreign country," are you really a fit parent?" - admirabumblebee, on 10/11/2007, -18/+103Obviously I meant "Kids" not "kites" above. Im working now, kites on the brain.
-sport kite maker - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -14/+84@ButchyFuego - You should be prosecuted for that comment. You're sick.
- admirabumblebee, on 10/11/2007, -28/+95No parent is perfect. Compared to things most parents do, such as leaving with a babysitter they dont know well, feeding bad food, teaching them no morals/ethics or bad morals/ethics.... leaving a toddler alone for a few minutes (even 30) is very minor. Things like this will happen regardless of the circumstances. No matter what, nearly all parents will take their eye off their kites occasionally and whether it's 10 seconds or an hour, that's all it takes for the child to dissapear. Blaming this on the parents is absolutely ludicrous.. why not try pushing some blame on the person who may have kidnapped her (assuming she just didnt get lost)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -202/+265Well... If you leave your toddler alone for 30 minutes at a time, are you really a fit parent?
- MarkCiccone, on 10/11/2007, -13/+73How many children go missing a day? Why do we only focus on the cute, white, blond-haired girls that go missing? It's pathetic to have this much attention on one girl when there are hundreds of other children missing as well, with no coverage and no donations from celebrities.
- kingdee40, on 10/11/2007, -5/+58Digg users don't leave their basements, how are they going to help?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+45When there's billions of people inhabiting a planet, there will never be harmony.
Its human nature. - Lennalf, on 10/11/2007, -4/+41@silverchrysalis (#6663971)
Yeah, I believe it is usually called "white girl syndrome." It's a big thing in the US, because cute or popular girls get tons of media attention, whereas ugly kids, non-white kids, and unpopular kids are generally ignored.
Reminds me of a year in high school when there were two student deaths. Both appeared to be traffic accidents. A really popular, attractive girl was riding with her boyfriend. He wasn't paying attention (possibly intoxicated), and wound up veering into oncoming highway traffic, which resulted in the girl's death. It was (obviously) very sad, lots of kids took off several days of school, and there was a very large crowd that left school to attend a service for her. Tons of poems and stories and pictures were submitted to the yearbook, which wound up filling several pages. The whole mood of the school was affected for quite a while.
Later that same year, a guy in my grade who was dorky and didn't have a lot of friends was found dead in his car in a ditch. It turns out he had been there for a few days before he was found, but nobody reported that he was missing, so nobody had been out looking for him. A group of kids that didn't really know him but who wanted to do something after his death wrote a generic poem. The poem and his picture were featured in the back of the index of the yearbook.
What a world. - lavchan, on 10/11/2007, -10/+40Posting missing-person notices on Digg seems to be a growing trend. I'm completely sympathetic to abductees but as far as i'm aware that really is not what this site is for. Not only is it unreasonable for everybody on Digg to post about missing people they know, it's unfair to many of them because it encourages some kind of 'standard' for whose story is good enough to get Dugg up.
Don't turn Digg into Nancy Grace. - shinynew, on 10/11/2007, -14/+43The are tens of thousands of things like this happening across the globe, but this one gets coverage because it is a little innocent white girl from Europe. So all the little african kids, the little chinese babies on the street corners, the little Indian kids that will never have a true family really don't matter because there was one little girl that went missing.
Look at the big picture. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -12/+41I agree, but that's not the kids fault. That issue should be dealt with at a later time. Right now, we have to concentrate on getting Maddy back.
- SultanTravi, on 10/11/2007, -12/+40@shinynew
Cigarettes don't kill you; you kill yourself by smoking them. Murderers and terrorists kill you.
Anyway, yeah, we should be worried about all those things. We should support the Red Cross and help out others. By paying our taxes we already send a lot of aid. That does not mean that we should not Digg up this article, even if it is a small difference. - Echarter, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33Ah man, I hope they find Maddy. It doesn't matter if she is form the UK, Spain, Portugal, Compton, or the Hampton's. It's a little girl.
- shaun3000, on 10/11/2007, -9/+34I think we have another case of MWWS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
- shinynew, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28@BrainInaJar
Locking your doors is just simply makeing it a bit harder to break into than the next house, Thank you for being that next house. - TwilightKing, on 10/11/2007, -12/+36Honestly, this happens all the time. Why is this one girl so much more important than the rest? Give me one reason.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -4/+27amen. just made me go give extra hugs to all three of mine.
- drafhk, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26@braininajar
You're very naive.
I don't lock my doors out of fear, I lock my doors because, if I don't, my ***** is gonna get jacked. It's not fear, it's rational thinking. - iainwall, on 10/11/2007, -10/+30What is unfair about British media telling the story of a missing British girl?
Digg isn't just for Americans you know! - cell00, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24JESUS CHRIST DIGG YOU DO IT EVERY SINGLE ***** TIME
First it's the carebears following what has been set out by the article getting dugg from left and right, then it's the lame ass psuedointellectuals thinking they're so god damn ***** awesome going against the rest getting all the diggs, and eventually the topic just dies as another ***** as usual.
A girl is missing...
This article might help someone recognize that girl and the parents might see their child again.
That's IT! Too bad we can't help every child there is and thus tend to focus on the pretty ones but seriously, I'm not gonna go "nah ***** that child, it's not fair against the rest", that's just *****. Christ... - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+27Yes, but should we really be in this position in the first place, where we have to look over every shoulder for the pedo lurking in the bushes? Surely we should have progressed beyond this by now.
- ciaran036, on 10/11/2007, -8/+26I refuse to digg this. This has gone too far. I really quite honestly and quite frankly do not give a ***** about this. There are more important things to worry about, for example the thousands of people are dying right now from AIDS, malaria, starvation, hundreds die almost every single day in Iraq and there also billions spent on weapons and there are also many people making huge profits from all this war and terror.
Just like all the crap we find in our tabloids every day (front page news story was about a sketch in Graham Norton being fake...) celebrity this and celebrity that. And we still hear news stories about Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr, 2 girls were killed years ago. In that time, I'm quite sure that millions of girls have died from far worse things.
People really need to get their acts together. Stop listening to the media they are feeding us *****. We need to stand up against all the evil people of the world.
The cost of the war in Iraq to America was $500 BILLION, yet the World Bank estimates that it would take 3 years and just $30 billion to eliminate world hunger. This makes it quite obvious that the only reason there are troops still in the Middle East is because companies like Halliburton KBR and Caci are profiting whilst people like Dick Cheney get a share of it.
There are bigger, more important things on my mind at the minute. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22Very, I just heard on Sky news that they think the parents are going to be prosecuted and that they believe that they didn't check on the children every 30 minutes as first reported.
- Lacero, on 10/11/2007, -17/+34Call me insensitive, but why are we digging this particular missing girl? Is she extra special somehow?
Children go missing ALL THE TIME IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD. Take this stuff off the homepage. Digg is not a crusader website for missing children. - jackharrybill, on 10/11/2007, -6/+23Really hard to agree on that - as a father of 4. They were in a supposedly safe environment very close to the room. The shutters and doors should have made the room secure and there were plenty of people around and they were checking regularly. As parents we constantly make judgments about safety. We balance various needs, both our needs and our children's needs against risk and consequence. Not just for immediate dangers but for quality of life. You cannot always get it right and the fact that fate and sadly probably some sick weirdo or two have combined to make this one of the occasions when things went wrong should not cloud our views so much. This link says more about the resort. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6627799.stm
- warriorscot, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21In the context of where they are your comment isnt fair, they were across the road in plain view in what normally is an incredibly safe country this kind of thing is almost unheard of in Portugal at least it was when i last visited there.
The story has been picked up very quickly because of where it happened and the fact they are british and its still a fairly small country if a British child goes missing it usually makes the news. - tblasko, on 10/11/2007, -10/+26From a comment made by ButchyFuego on "Cancer patient has Xbox 360 stolen whilst in hospital"
"It disgusts me to think that there is someone out there so socially retarded and self absorbed that he would steal from someone who has already had so many other things robbed from him with the cancer. I really hope karma comes around full circle on this one."
I really hope karma comes around full circle on you my friend... you sick sick person/hypocrite
It disgusts me to think that there is someone out there like you - jhbarr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19@wheremyarm: It's called a keyhole eye and is usually caused by something called a Coloboma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloboma - Hecks, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18@ohgr
It's not the parents putting up the £2.5 million, the contributors to the fund are listed in the original article. - BrainInAJar, on 10/11/2007, -7/+21"It's just such a shame we live in fear"
So don't. It's a choice you make.
Locking up or murdering criminals doesn't stop you from living in fear, if for no other reason than that those are after-the-fact retributory actions rather than preventative measures.
The only thing you can do to stop living in fear is choose not to be afraid.
I don't even lock my doors. The likelyhood I'll get broken in to is small enough that I just don't even worry about it - skage482, on 10/11/2007, -14/+28@butchyfuego
Congratulations on winning the award for worst human being on digg. It's an achievement, but not one to be proud of. - dobba, on 10/11/2007, -7/+21Whilst this is a tragic thing and I wouldn't wish it on anyone I have to ask - why is it that one child missing can have this amount of attention spent both by the media and celebrities when many children go missing every day?
Don't you think these other families deserve this kind of attention as well? Is it simply because this child is cute, blonde hair etc and the Media can latch onto it and sell it to death? You have to ask the motives behind the media coverage of this when thousands of children and people go missing every year yet they garner little attention.
As I said, this is truly a horrible thing to happen but my heart goes out to all the other children of the world both here in the UK and abroad that go missing who, unfortunately, don't have a Media profile deemed worthy enough to splash all over the news day in, day out. - devoured, on 10/11/2007, -10/+23It's amazing how some of you are absolute *****. I find it hard to believe that anyone on here coming down on the parents has any children. Even if it was a mistake on the parents part, is their price to pay the loss of their little girl? Go back to looking at porn if you don't have anything better to do than reflect your lack of self worth on others. We can only hope that this little girl is located, this is disgusting.
- liah, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17You know what-- it's not this little girl's fault that thousands of other children get kidnapped in other countries. It's not the little girl's fault that the media took notice to it. Stop being so damn insensitive and think about how you would react if it was your daughter. Your flesh and blood. Do what you can to help this little girl and do what you can to help all those other kids who've gone missing-- but don't give me crap about them, and don't give their family crap about doing everything they can.
Just get her home. - Hecks, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16@silverchrysalis
You're making a hell of a leap from parents who did a stupid thing, to parents who treat a child like a pet or commodity.
They made a mistake - a big one - and they are paying the price now. Anything the British legal system can throw at them will be nothing to what they're going through. The pain on both their faces is palpable. - twertyto, on 10/11/2007, -11/+24I sincerely hope they find her but I would just like to point out that we probably wouldn't be doing this if the girl was not white and from an affluent family.
- moogle516, on 10/11/2007, -14/+25How is this child more important then the other thousands of children that go missing daily??
And why is JK Rowling contributing for reward money?? Unless shes like close friends of the family or something. Just seems like shes using it as an excuse for better PR - MotleyTool, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Some really immature and/or challenged posters here.
Caring about this one child does not exclude one from caring about the millions dying across the globe. In fact, caring about this one child is the first step to achieving what several of you are pontificating about, but actually doing nothing - acting on global concerns. The fact that you are young and confused and angry at the world does not mean you suddenly understand the root of human nature. If you are not young and angry, well then you just lost the only excuse you had and shame on you.
I care about the genocide in Darfur. I also care about the old woman who lives next door to me who is too old to get up and down her stairs now and needs help getting out.
I care about the millions of abused and battered women across the globe who are victimized and disenfranchised by their own societies. I also care about my co-worker who's crying over her relationship that just ended.
One does not exclude the other, and only being concerned with with the global suffering of mankind does not make you sage or a realist - it makes you a procrastinator and worse still; a charlatan. You're trying to pretend you have bigger fish to fry when really you can't be bothered to help anyone. I believe that deep down inside you know that's a serious flaw in your character, and the shame of that shows in your need to ridicule those that can and do care about the suffering of anyone, let alone everyone.
If you really did care about the massive problems that plague the world on any given day, you'd start small and care about one problem - for example, this missing girl.
Lastly, I totally agree about the coverage only being there because this girl is white. I doubt if affluence has anything to do with it though. The family could be dirt poor and they'd get this kind of press. However, if she were black or latino this would barely have made page 6 - xosseh, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12@Lennalf
I also live in Portugal, and I know a lot of Portuguese diggers; unfortunately, that won't make much difference.
If she was in Portugal, the police would have found her by now. You wouldn't believe the amount of effort everyone has been putting on finding her.
I believe the kidnappers had very specific plans for her, and (as much as I hate saying this) I think the chances of finding her after she's been gone for ten days are extremely small.
I just hope I'm wrong, because this story has had a really negative impact in everyone's lives here. I couldn't even dream of imagining how her parents feel... - Lennalf, on 10/11/2007, -9/+19More importantly, how many Digg users live in PORTUGAL?
For Americans: If you really want to help find kids, go to http://www.missingkids.com/, select your state, and take a look. Granted, even within the same state there is a very, very slim chance that you will see one of these kids and recognize his or her face, but at least you will be looking in the correct general geographic region.
There are *billions* of people on this Earth. If you really want to find somebody, you are going to have to narrow your search. Feel with your heart, but think with your brain. - arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16@lennalf
You have to remember that digg isn't US exclusive. A statement such as "how many diggers live in PORTUGAL" is somewhat ignorant. - InvisibleKid, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16Now this is the kind of Digg Effect I like
- qber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@karmaticrogue:
If it were your daughter that went missing, I'd bet anything you'd give a damn.
It's true that we can't help every family out there with a missing child. But given the opportunity, isn't trying to help one family better than refusing to help at all? - someotherdude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Gotta say there are some cold, cold people on here...
I live in the UK and I can honestly say hand on heart I believe that ANY child abduction - regardless of race or ethnicity - would get the same initial coverage here. The follow-through, with reward money fronted by J K Rowling and the like stemmed from the initial input from Stephen Winyard - a Scottish millionaire (the McCann's are also Scottish). He's obviously looking out for his fellow Scots.
The News of the World - a UK Sunday newspaper - have also offered money and, as they consistently do in cases involving children, coverage.
The fact that a missing child in your state or country would, so many of you say, not be treated in the same way is something that you should be doing something about instead of adopting the, frankly odd, stance that we either care about every missing child all or none at all. - lukehh, on 10/11/2007, -8/+17Over 200 Children have gone missing in Britain since January.
THe Brit media focus on this one because it happened in a 'backwards country' and the victim is a sall cute white girl.
What's wrong with brit edia covering this case and not any of the (200) others? you decide. but you can be suer that a thirteen your old Asian kid from east london would not have gotten the same amount of coverage. - wonkavsn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Honestly, how old are you people?
Yes she's white and yes she comes from a first world nation. I agree that she would probably receive special attention because of this.
But does that mean that we shouldn't do whatever little we can to help her and her family? Yes there are many missing children in the world, but how many of you have made any effort to help ANY of them?
It's a shame when adults aren't willing to provide whatever help they possibly can to save a child because of the biases of other adults.
It's horrible when any child goes missing. -
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