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To not feel very sorry for woman stuck in Turkey.

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Viviennemary · 20/06/2025 09:17

I was reading about a woman stuck in Turkey. She was there with her partner who was having teeth implants. So they got drunk and she fell against the glasss shower screen in the hotel. And it smashed. So they did a runner. Police chase. Got caught put in jail. Told they owed £15k or else. Sad face. Hmm. Though it does seem very steep for a shower screen.

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ABH100 · 21/06/2025 05:10

GFM says “setting this up would make Georgia’s skin crawl”… Georgia proceeds to give all the sensational details about it and also the organiser is Georgia Harrison 🤷‍♀️

Veneers can be minimally invasive, I still wouldn’t have them done, much better to get braces and whitening, or cosmetic bonding and make the best of your natural teeth. But in Turkey they do a full mouth of crowns, usually all linked together. Completely destructive to your teeth, near impossible to clean! These people will need full mouth of implants in the future when these fail, I just can’t get over the stupidity of that never mind the drunken smashing of a hotel room and if I was separated from my daughter I would very quickly pay 15000 to be reunited even if that left with me with years of debt.

Velmy · 21/06/2025 03:37

Soal · 20/06/2025 09:42

Of course I feel sorry for her, she's in fucking jail, it's not as funny as you think it is.

But she's stupid and common and drunk, she deserves it right, hahahahaha.

I can't feel sorry for idiots who bring things on themselves unfortunately.

First of all, LOL at 'celebrating teeth'. What in the Jeremy Kyle, crushed velvet sofa, 'Live, Laugh, Love' wall stencil does celebrating a set of crap 2k veneers even entail?

Secondly, she smashed her hotel room to bits and did a runner, in an attempt to avoid having to do the decent thing and put it right. Scumbag behavior. Of course she 'deserves' to face the consequences of her actions. Being 'common' is irrelevant; being drunk and stupid is not.

And finally, as if to confirm her complete lack of remorse and unwillingness to take responsibility, she's since tried to flee the country multiple times in a bid to avoid paying the fine.

A 15k fine she apparently can't afford, despite having spent 7k+ and counting on accommodation (she's not in prison, she's living in a hotel) and 2.5k on legal fees. A fine that she's now asking people to pay for her.

Pretty happy to have a chuckle at this one tbh. It's the kid that she left at home so she could celebrate teeth that I feel sorry for.

Itsarecipefordisaster · 20/06/2025 23:50

This is my revised view having thought about my reaction to this

  • she drank alcohol while she was on anti-psychotic medication - that’s her irresponsibility
  • that led to her smashing up the hotel room
  • running away expecting to get away with it is illegal (in the UK and Turkey) - no excuse and shows a total lack of responsibility and integrity
  • she was in prison for 1 day - what did she expect?
  • her irresponsibility means she’s separated from her daughter
  • she thinks she’s above the law and can run away again but has been caught at port/airport - another attempt to avoid responsibility
  • she’s got the £15K to get herself out of this mess but has instead decided to spend it on hotels and then claim she’s a victim
  • she might be stupid (which she can’t help) but all of this is down to her character - she’s irresponsible, lacks integrity and morals and is now playing the victim

It’s called karma. I have no sympathy. She tried to rip off the hotel and it’s come back to bite her.

NaneePolly · 20/06/2025 23:41

That’s how they behave at home and get away with it.

Pumpkinspice13 · 20/06/2025 23:41

TheNightSurgeon · 20/06/2025 09:51

I saw the family talking about it on tiktok, they said they are having to look after her kid, it's the first time she's been abroad since becoming a mum and they got bit drunk and did a few bits of damage to the room, and then got scared and ran away, the said the mafia was chasing them and extorting money from them.

They painted a picture of a poor young mum not being able to handle a drink and accidently damaged a couple of things and ran away out of fear. I don't believe a word of it.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdUhkGDg/

this one?

TikTok - Make Your Day

https://www.tiktok.com/@xbeccaharrison/video/7516692209626811670?_t=ZN-8xNGwm4XL4I&_r=1

Grammarnut · 20/06/2025 23:24

Duechristmas · 20/06/2025 21:43

Chav is a much older word than that recent acronym

How old? Seventeenth century? I can't remember either Shakespeare or Chaucer using it? And in any case it means that someone is 'common', what the 18th century called 'vulgar'. Not nice.
Mind, woman in question was stupid.

Judecb · 20/06/2025 23:10

BatchCookBabe · 20/06/2025 22:53

Why is anything of any interest to anyone? 🙄

What a pointless, snooty comment. 🙃

Thank you for your kind remarks.

BatchCookBabe · 20/06/2025 22:53

Judecb · 20/06/2025 21:24

Of course they are not in the right, but why is their plight of any interest to you?

Why is anything of any interest to anyone? 🙄

What a pointless, snooty comment. 🙃

Pingu32 · 20/06/2025 22:30

ThisGutsyBalonz · 20/06/2025 22:19

Legal Aid I believe isn't readily available

Unfortunately, it's more available than it should be, and, hugely, taken advantage of

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 20/06/2025 22:29

Soal · 20/06/2025 09:42

Of course I feel sorry for her, she's in fucking jail, it's not as funny as you think it is.

But she's stupid and common and drunk, she deserves it right, hahahahaha.

Well... yes! While it's not 'funny', people should not be excused from the law because they don't pay it any mind. Ignorance is no excuse...

safetychange · 20/06/2025 22:22

Chocolatemasculinity · 20/06/2025 10:37

@SalfordQuays The use of the word chav is unpleasant and in my view discriminatory. Read ‘Chav - The Demonisation of the Working Class’…. these two people are not representative of any particular group. They made a stupid mistake. That’s all.

I'm going to guess you don't live on a council estate. It's very easy to insist there's no such thing as a chav when you don't have to live amongst them. Middle class bubble anyone ?

ThisGutsyBalonz · 20/06/2025 22:19

Pingu32 · 20/06/2025 22:10

To be fair, the same couple likely chance their arm at home, so doing it elsewhere is normal to them. Glad they haven't got away with it, as they likely would have done here. Gofundme 'cos they're used to legal aid, which isn't available! Shows how crap systems are in UK

Legal Aid I believe isn't readily available

Pingu32 · 20/06/2025 22:10

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To be fair, the same couple likely chance their arm at home, so doing it elsewhere is normal to them. Glad they haven't got away with it, as they likely would have done here. Gofundme 'cos they're used to legal aid, which isn't available! Shows how crap systems are in UK

Pingu32 · 20/06/2025 22:07

My guess is she bit the shower screen with her Turkey Teeth - hell slap it up her !

Duechristmas · 20/06/2025 21:43

Grammarnut · 20/06/2025 18:27

Why do you assume they're chavs (which is an acronym meaning council house and violent, apparently - sounds USian to me)? They got drunk. People do. For all we know they are professional people and she is on MN reading this lot.
How one falls against a shower screen I know not, but the obviousl thing is to immediately report it, not run away.
I don't feel sorry for idiots but 15k sounds like a scam. How much to shower screens cost, even in Turkey?

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Chav is a much older word than that recent acronym

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/06/2025 21:43

I feel sorry for her child. The only victim here.

JustCopyeditorsAnnie · 20/06/2025 21:39

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Caerulea · 20/06/2025 21:32

GiveMeSpanakopita · 20/06/2025 10:25

I do feel sorry for her because a shower door doesn't cost £15k to replace and Turkish police are notoriously brutal.

More generally I'm fascinated by the fact that sympathy for Brits in trouble abroad seems broadly to delineate itself along lines of class loyalty/snobbery rather than an honest appraisal of the facts.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe went to a country which the UK Govt advises not to go to, spread propaganda according to the laws of that country, but middle class so it's jolly awful and there's a big outcry.

Kate & gerry McCann neglect their infant children in favour of a night drinking and lose one, but doctors, so therefore it's all so awful and let's throw the full weight of the Met behind them.

Woman goes to Turkey for dental work, neglecting neither her children nor insisting on going to a known dangerous country, is cruelly treated by the police and held hostage in that country, but she's working class, so, ha ha ha ha and she deserves it.

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I'm going to stop reading at this post cos it's the only one with half a clue, the rest is just snobby bullshit.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 20/06/2025 21:30

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My goodness. That's an impressive amount of vitriol, snobbery and racism in one relatively short post.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 20/06/2025 21:26

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Judecb · 20/06/2025 21:24

Of course they are not in the right, but why is their plight of any interest to you?

NamedChand · 20/06/2025 21:23

Praying4Peace · 20/06/2025 20:29

Unbelievably harsh and prejudiced comments as are many on this thread.
She doesn't deserve to be in jail and to be in jail in a foreign country must be a nightmare.
Hope she is able to come back soon

She’s not in prison

Pedallleur · 20/06/2025 21:11

No sympathy here. Just more fwits who believe they can do anything and somehow it isn't their fault and someone will help them. I won't. They can stay there and admire their teeth whilst posting on sm

OchonAgusOchonOh · 20/06/2025 21:08

Lougle · 20/06/2025 20:57

The GFM page does have a picture of a notebook with the writing in it, and a fresh looking tattoo of the same, so it implies that it's been done recently.

I'll bow to your expertise. I haven't a clue what a fresh vs older tattoo looks like😁

To me, it seems like she's not the most intelligent of individuals, to have poor impulse control and not the best at differentiating between good and bad advice. While she brought it on herself through a series of bad, and then worse, decisions, I do feel a certain amount of sympathy for her.

Noodledog · 20/06/2025 21:05

Praying4Peace · 20/06/2025 20:29

Unbelievably harsh and prejudiced comments as are many on this thread.
She doesn't deserve to be in jail and to be in jail in a foreign country must be a nightmare.
Hope she is able to come back soon

She isn't in jail! Bloody hell, so much hyperbole. If she'd done the same in the UK she would also have spent a night in the cells before being bailed. It's not exactly Midnight Express.