Shannon Matthews - A Lost Career

[Uncle Spielberg]

Shannon Matthews a loss to Hollywood. She played an absolute BLINDER. Oscar's were sure to follow if she had applied her undoubted acting ability and talents to the big scrren. Now she is banged up its a sad loss for a screen legend that could have been.

What a shocking waste of talent.

 

[fatbadger]

Sorry to be pedantic, but do you mean Karen Matthews?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Yes :thud:

 

[The Large One]

Keep em coming...

Burl Ives - North Stand Chat

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

A classic blunder Al.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The Burl Ives one was one of my best.

 

[nobody's dupe]

There's something that has puzzled me about this case. The prosecution said that the reason Sharon was 'kidnapped' was for the reward money. What reward money? Were her mother and the other guy prosecuted relying on somebody to offer a reward?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The police operation cost the taxpayer £3m. The whole inbred family should be slaves of the state and forced to work to pay it off. Their combined skills would mean an estimated completion time (of the hard labour) of approximately 473 light years.

More importantly, it is very sad that the kids of the 'family' do not really stand a chance of making something of themselves, with such a handicap in their early lives.

 

[The Large One]

The police operation cost the taxpayer £3m. The whole inbred family should be slaves of the state and forced to work to pay it off. Their combined skills would mean an estimated completion time (of the hard labour) of approximately 473 light years.

More importantly, it is very sad that the kids of the 'family' do not really stand a chance of making something of themselves, with such a handicap in their early lives.

Quite. Think of the brain-fried money-spinning ideas that have now been put into Shannon's head for the future.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

There's something that has puzzled me about this case. The prosecution said that the reason Sharon was 'kidnapped' was for the reward money. What reward money? Were her mother and the other guy prosecuted relying on somebody to offer a reward?

One of the tabloids put up the reward.

 

[nobody's dupe]

One of the tabloids put up the reward.

Thanks for that insight Edna, but I'm even more confused than ever.

What was the original motive of the kidnap? Obviously a newspaper could only have offered a reward after the poor girl was 'kidnapped.'

 

[Voice of Reason]

As I recall it - she had read a preview of a book or a film in a red top (Sun or Star) with the same plot, and thought it a good idea.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Their combined skills would mean an estimated completion time (of the hard labour) of approximately 473 light years.

A distant pedant writes: And a fourth-former's physics skills would have told you that light years is a measure of DISTANCE, not time.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

....the time it took for a sedated slug to travel 473 light years...!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

On Panorama tonight the police, as is normal, drew up a family tree. The officer said he would normally get it on a sheet of A4 but this familly tree seemed longer than the Bayeaux Tapestry!

 

[skipper734]

Inspired by the reward offered for finding Maddy Prior no doubt.

 

[skipper734]

Should have read Mcann. Stupid boy,can't even find the edit button.

 

[clapham_gull]

The police operation cost the taxpayer £3m. The whole inbred family should be slaves of the state and forced to work to pay it off. Their combined skills would mean an estimated completion time (of the hard labour) of approximately 473 light years.

More importantly, it is very sad that the kids of the 'family' do not really stand a chance of making something of themselves, with such a handicap in their early lives.

Not doubting about the 3 million but I'm always intrigued where those figures come from.

To put it simply if the woman hadn't decided that she wasn't likely to win X-Factor and kidnapping her daughter was the best way forward, would the tax payer be 3 million better off ?

You see these figures quoted all the time, like the ones where some business committee states that hangovers cost the economy x billion every year, but don't factor in the lost holidays that people don't take because the company policy doesn't allow to them to pass them over to the next year.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Quote from Sky news

"He was born Paul Drake but changed his name, apparently in homage to Australian star Jason Donovan"

speaks volumes that.

 

[Gazwag]

Thanks for that insight Edna, but I'm even more confused than ever.

What was the original motive of the kidnap? Obviously a newspaper could only have offered a reward after the poor girl was 'kidnapped.'

When they read in their Sun newspaper that the McCann kidnap generated millions