To think that if I had abducted a child in a very high profile case a few years ago I would have at least changed the Childs name before going to the local play barn?

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was with a friends child who has the same name as abducted child.

Whenever I called her name people actually turned and started before whispering between themselves.

Talk about feeling awkward!

I actually feel for parents who have this on a daily basis ( not as much as the Childs family of course!)

Op you are ridiculous.

I imagine you are a really loud annoying person and called this Childs name far more than necessary (ffs WHY would you need to shout constantly after a child at soft play? Its a contained environment, everything is set up for children... Perhaps you're the sort of overbearing person who cant go 2 minutes without drawing attention to yourself.
I really don't believe that the general public would react like that just over a name. Although I am beginning to wonder, from reading the op and her strange views, whether the average person who hangs about in play barns is particularly dim.....

haha lynehamrose...you are joking right?

OP how dare you provoke the other parents at the play barn by shouting a childs name? REPEATEDLY! Why don't you shout it's number like the rest of us...

"CHILD 06251, stop climbing up the slide!"

or even completely ignore the child, as any good middle class mother does.

LMAO! there's a huge display of hard of thinking on this thread. just perfect, thanks! it's really not that complicated.

in OPs defence, i have a friend with a small blonde Madeleine about the age of the abducted child and AT THE TIME 4 years ago people would give her a good glaring at when she said her name like she'd take the most sought after child out the week after she was abducted and call her her real name. yes it's an idiotic reaction, but (as we all know!) there are some real idiots about. i'm surprised it still happens now, though i know you hear the name, you think McCann.

I have only got to page 4 and have tears rolling down my face, the last time I laughed so much on MN was the kitchen utensil thread.

I just don't understand shouty mums. Well I do actually. They need to get up off their backsides and go and get their childs attention and then speak to them in a normal voice.

I was abducted by aliens from a soft play centre, but they didn't call my name so nobody saw.

my daughter is the same age as Madeleine and looks similar to her, I was in halfords just after she was abducted and the cashier was really staring at her trying to see into her eyes and even asked her if I was her mummy!!

I think OP means she was with a friend who has a child called Madeline and called her name. Big woop.

gaillifrey, it's that look that's very typical imo. blue eyes and fair hair. every 8 yo girl in my dd's class looks a bit like madeleine. ok, not the girl adopted from china, and there's one blonde and one red head. But all the others ............... it's a very common look.

I think everybody understands the op now.
That's why everbodies mocking her

I really can't see why everyone's taking the piss out of the OP

Errmm, YANBU OP.

This thread made me laugh so much :D

Looking at it from another slant though, if you abducted a child, maybe you'd keep the name because everyone would think you'd have changed it and therefore not suspect it was the abducted child

Something for all of us to think about when we abduct our next child, I think you'll agree!

I'll admit - I had to reread the title at least 4 times before I got quite how it was worded... it might have needed some editing for clarity.

Perhaps they turned around and looked if you were yelling Madeleine full blast in a room full of CJs, VJs, BJs (yes I know of at least one and that's the poor mite's actual NAME), Kye, Tye, and assorted other short, possibly "chavvy" names and you yelled out something polysyllabic and middle class (mind's gone blank about other short names but you get the idea).

I don't immediately think of that Madeleine when I hear the name (I usually think "oh fuck which spelling variation is this one" to be honest) but I know other people by the name anyway.

has the op not been back

How awful, this has made me really chuckle! What a pointless, yet hilarious, OP!

I have a Madeline, when the abduction happened if I was out and called her people would have a good look at her, more so because Im English and live in rural France thankfully a quick look at her eyes and they could see it wasnt her

It doesnt happen at all now which is sad

no idea what the purpose of the thread was its very odd, but if they were looking its good to think they are still very much aware that she is missing and on the look out

emptyshell the difference is you read it, worked it out and then refrained from ripping the piss out of the OP.

She's not been back, and I'm not bloody surprised.

We all at times write things that aren't as clear as they could be.

I think this must win the prize foer the dumbest thread of all time