I have no words - woman now stranded after wanting to give birth in St Lucia (on the beach...)

[Nanny0gg]

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/new-mum-stranded-after-being-8669669

What on earth were they thinking??

Yeah I'm not convinced it's drugs.

I'm being more swayed to the idea these are just people who think life will be handed to them when their whims don't go to plan.

@itsgettingweird “Between March and the 23rd April when baby Louisa was born there is no account of their whereabouts”

Where are you getting that information from?

All I’ve seen is the same newspaper article copy and pasted across 100s of news sites followed by clickbait sites cashing in.

So surely you don’t mean “there is no account of their whereabouts” but simply “the article doesn’t mention where they stayed.”

Every chance they were in a cheap hotel near the beach in Martinique, until they changed their mind about the beach and decided to set sail. You make it sound very intriguing to say “no account” - like you’re a St Lucian detective who has asked them to show the booking email and they have nothing.

Bit of savings, bit of credit card - and a trip to Martinique (he said flights out around £609 each) isn’t completely out of their reach.

Well they don't seem to have actually made any money.....

One of the quotes in the papers was (paraphrased) "The consulate are asking for updates but I can't give them any and now we're stuck". It sounds like some poor individual has the job of ringing Clive every day saying "Clive, are the DNA results back yet?" and Clive just keeps saying "DNA results? Erm....let me think....I'm not sure. I'll just....oh look, is that a dolphin....{click of phone being hung up}". Its not like they aren't being given advice on how to get out of this predicament, they're just being evasive.

It would be the worst drugs deal ever.

Strangely not - but it's in several others such as Lancs Live.
Looks like one of those syndicated stories

It sounds like some poor individual has the job of ringing Clive every day saying "Clive, are the DNA results back yet?" and Clive just keeps saying "DNA results? Erm....let me think....I'm not sure. I'll just....oh look, is that a dolphin....{click of phone being hung up}". Its not like they aren't being given advice on how to get out of this predicament, they're just being evasive.

Rock, Paper, Scissors everyday at StLucia High Commission.

If Clive can't get a chainsaw back to a next door neighbour he's hardly going to be returning a boat to a different country.

@FarmGirl78 “sounds like some poor individual has the job of ringing Clive every day saying "Clive, are the DNA results back yet?"

🤣

He wants it all way, does Clive. They’ve been abandoned and no-one will help them. Yet… he’s getting a daily check in from the Foreign Office. (I think article said Foreign Office for that one)

Sounds to me like the authorities want him on a short leash.

You can get a DNA result back from a lab in Grenada in 3-5 working days.

I guess the daily phone call is just asking the same question we all are… is you attached in “last month”, Clive - why isn’t it back yet?
Vote:

1. he never did it, he knows it’s not their child
2. he put his Tameside address on the form without thinking cos he’s a doofus
3. it is his child but he dodged the test because he’s a Freeman of the Land and his word is enough
4. he did the test, the result is back, and poor Clive has just found out that hard way that Iuliia is into free love as well as free birth

Really wish at this moment WE were manning / womaning that St Lucia High Commission.

he did the test, the result is back, and poor Clive has just found out that hard way that Iuliia is into free love as well as free birth

😂👌

And Great work Agent Testina.

The contradictions are just growing! 🤣🤣

Get @Saschka onto it. She'll have the phone line hacked within 20 mins.

That’s just another rehashed article from the same source with sloppy journalism @Robyn847 - what contradiction do you mean?

Are there any journalists around? I’m intrigued by the reporting here. Very clearly every published news story is relying on the same source - but who is it? Do Iiulia and Clive have a mate with a hotline to Reuters? Did they go to the local press, whose report has been picked up worldwide? Were they chatting to someone in the pub who turned out to be a Sun reporter on holiday? If they are pushing the story themselves, why are their social media channels so quiet?
(And have they really really spent all the time between April and now pissing about on a boat and failing to fill in forms?)

What contradiction? The "Son born on beach" bit. As opposed to "Daughter born on boat". You know, that bit. I mean, call me fussy, but thats a pretty big one.

Wouldn't you call that sloppy syndication?

This article made me say “what” so many times Macklemore turned up on a scooter to take me thrift shopping. What a pair of absolute plant pots.

No. O think you've decided to read it that way.

No account simply was it was accounted for in the reporting.

The articles say they flew to Martinique and hired a boat to give birth on the beach in St Lucia.

I'm simply saying I don't buy not having rime to get to the beach even if the baby was early because they had 3 weeks minimum and there's no written account of what they did during that time.

So it's still a mystery. May not be an exciting part of the jigsaw but I doubt they turned up and just decided to hire a boast on whim.

If Clive can't get a chainsaw back to a next door neighbour he's hardly going to be returning a boat to a different country.

I think that was made up humour rather than a true tale 🤣

Though utterly plausible.

Perhaps... Between March and 23rd April..... they did a sailing course.

Ridiculous?

A couple of my mates had to a written exam and a course before they were allowed to help crew on a boat.

And there they are bobbing about on the high seas. Giving birth....Sailing around.

It's the boat that throws me every time .

Fly out out to a lovely beach. Stay put. Cue dolphins. Do your thing in the waves, water birthing.

Why bring A Boat into the equation?

Never mind the cost.

Someone else owns that boat.