Deleted thread - woman witnessed shootings

I googled it as it sounded like a big load of shit. It would have been a massive news story and there was nothing.

I read that last night and the whole thing stank to high heaven.
I spent 18 years working in news and if a story with even half those dramatic details had occurred papers and news programmes would have been all over it.
The ingredients for a top story were all there.
Family wiped out and killed except for one lone survivor who witnesses the whole horror.
Mistaken identity.
Victims on holiday in another country
Gang related
Further tragedy after the fact with loss of unborn child.
It was like a perfect storm of ingredients. Believe me if anything like that had happened in the last decade you probably would remember because it would have been so heavily covered.
Why do people make that shit up?

People just do unfortunately. Look at the woman who said she was in the Twin Towers when they collapsed. I have come across more people that you could believe doing this kind of thing.
It's like the grief vampires on Facebook who claim to be "devastated" when someone they hardly know dies. I see it as some kind of reverse form of basking in reflected glory. For a few hours they are the star of their own soap opera and everyone wants to talk to them.

People need to step back and think before rushing in to fuel such obvious rubbish.

@Clymene

Even if you believed the frankly enormously unlikely story, did the bit about her training as a midwife, just a mere few years after her fiancé died in her arms and her baby was stillborn, not give you pause?

I think when I first started using mumsnet I was terrible at spotting trolls. It’s become more obvious to me in recent years. I think it’s pretty sick the kind of things a lot of them troll about.

Even if you believed the frankly enormously unlikely story, did the bit about her training as a midwife, just a mere few years after her fiancé died in her arms and her baby was stillborn, not give you pause?

*Highly unlikely that such an event would not have made international news headlines...

Indeed.

It was obviously attention-seeking bollocks from the very first post.

Rather than asking why someone would tell such lies on an online forum, instead ask why some people are so willing to believe anything they read, no matter how melodramatic or heart-rending, without stopping to question what they’re reading or why it was posted.

With her rubbish about how she wanted to retrain and invest herself in helping the similarly bereaved, it was obvious she was looking to get off on the cavalcade of posts telling her what a strong and wonderful person she is.

@bruffin www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2915356-Old-user-NobblyBobbly19-one-born-every-minute. Mumsnet even admitted their mistake.

Never saw that particular thread so can't comment on that. However, just because a MN mod decides to delete a thread doesn't mean it is 100% definitely a troll. Moderators aren't gods who can instantly know without a doubt that someone is lying.

Was reading it during the night feeds and was concerned.

Towards the end there was a poster said "are you clean now" which confused me even more. I couldn't see a reference to drugs but wondered if people knew something I didn't, or could have missed it. Maybe that's where others have said people were possibly acting to keep it going.

Didn't see it today so no idea what happened next but just don't get it. Sad really.

Highly unlikely that such an event would not have made international news headlines...

Its sound like mm is pretty sure but when ever i see something like this i remember the poster whos waters broke very early and she lost her boy. Even mm thought troll and banned/deleted. It ended up being real. Please be thoughtful on what you post even if its seems an obvious pisstake

There are some very, very sick individuals out there. I agree with a pp re the socks on that thread

Most murders make at least the local news. Four British tourists including a pregnant woman who later lost her baby gunned down in a popular European resort in a case of mistaken identity in gang warfare? And not a murmur in any type of media? Yeah, right.

Exactly. I don’t know why this needs to be spelled out

I honestly don’t know what’s worse - the troll or all the “well-meaning” people begging for gory details and falling over themselves to offer a handhold and flowers and shouting down anyone who dares to question the OP when they start messing up dates. It was such an obvious wannabe (bad) writer that was basking in all the froth they’d created. People need to use a bit more critical thinking and stop getting sucked into tall tales blindly.

I totally believed this, was it all made up?

It was so obviously a load of shit!

[quote marbellamarc]@rattymcratrat the lack of news wasn't a red flag to me as often murders get little press[/quote]
Most murders make at least the local news. Four British tourists including a pregnant woman who later lost her baby gunned down in a popular European resort in a case of mistaken identity in gang warfare? And not a murmur in any type of media? Yeah, right.

MN should get rid of the AMAs completely.

It was pretty blatant trolling, from somebody who clearly hadn't thought hard enough at the start to realise that such an event would have received a lot of media attention. “I’m going to talk about this terribly terribly traumatic event which happened to me and that I’ve never felt able to talk about to anyone but my therapist before and invite a bunch of strangers to literally ask me anything about it; oh, but actually, whilst I can tell you details like my daughter’s name and what the killer said in court I can’t tell you any of the basic details like where it was because, uh, that would be outing. And it was never reported whatsoever by any media so that’s why you can’t find any reference to it if you google.”

MN should vet AMAs, before they are started.

That's what happens on other websites.

Funny how there are always posters ready to defend the OP on threads like that one and think nothing of sending vile pm's if you dare ask a genuine question.