To not feel very sorry for woman stuck in Turkey.

[Viviennemary]

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.

No, she's saying the hotel chased her because she did a runner. She has made up the mafia bit for extra dramatic effect.

And they would have tried to kill her if the taxi driver had not saved the day. No one is murdering you over a smashed shower door.

They're not. She spent one night in jail. Since then she's been living in another hotel, spending the £15k her family raised to pay for the damage on her living expenses instead of handing it over and being free to return to the UK. Stupid is as stupid does.

Again, she says she was frightened they were going to murder her and that the taxi driver saved her life - there is no evidence for any of this.

What's more likely - hotel staff give chase and there's a bit of shouting and screaming in Turkish which she doesn't understand, or the mafia conduct a very public hit on a no-mark cleaner from Rochdale with witnesses?

Why or why did mn remove the laughing emoji…?!

The eyebrow, teeth and lip combo just looks so 😬

At least you'll be able to see them in the dark.

Coming soon to a branch of Clinton Cards near you, congratulations on:

Your new baby.
Passing your exams/driving test.
Getting a new job/home.
Turning your mouth into a human version of Shergar's.

SHERGAR! 😂

For some reason I live somewhere that seems to have a disproportionate amount of power cuts and I'm often rummaging for candles in the dark. This would be bloody brilliant, one could just stand in the corner of the room and smile like a human lampshade.

It’s just embarrassing. No sympathy here either.

Having recently been on a pre 7am plane that had to be met by police at its destination due to the disruptive drunken antics of a large party on-board I think you've nailed it

No a lot of what people are saying has come from her own words on her go fund me page. She is the one who is giving out the information, not about taking drugs, dunno where that has come from, but smashing the place up and doing a runner and then not paying the money and the stuff about the supposed mafia and the rest, it’s all her words.

I haven't had enough either. It won't ever be over till they can bring her home and give her a proper funeral.

Turkey should ban people like these from re-entering.

If she had just paid the money that she has given by her family to cover the damage, she could have been home again weeks ago. Instead she has spent it on staying there, and now has to raise it again... Except that she doesn't really need to raise the whole amount, just enough to make up what she has spent already. Instead she needs 24k, apparently. It is such an obvious money making scheme...

I'm going against the grain here and saying I do feel sorry for her.

She's obviously not the brightest and seems to be easily influenced. She had the money to pay but listened to the lawyer rather than trying to get additional advise on the best thing to do. She then squandered that money on flights/boats she should have known she would not get on.

She also has serious mental health problems that would not help her make good decisions.

Is she an idiot? Yes.
Was she irresponsible? Yes.
Do I believe the only damage was a broken screen door? No.
Do I believe her story about mafia etc? No.

However, it sounds like she ended up in the situation she is in due to a series of bad decisions on her part that were made in a panic, compounded by lack of intelligence or general cop-on and aggravated by her mental health problems.

Where did you see she's looking for 24k? I missed that.

It wasn't a simple shower screen. The hotel bathrooms have glass screens instead of a wall between them and the bedroom part, they usually have built in blinds or a system to change them to frosted for privacy. Either way, we're not talking a few hundred quid B&Q style screen! Goodness knows what she threw at it to break it.

When I've booked with Brittany Ferries or Eurotunnel I've been asked if I have travel insurance and with which company. Obviously they want to sell insurance but I think they might be obliged to ask. Perhaps if we made it mandatory to have travel insurance, some, although not all, of these daft problems may not get so out of hand

Her Go Fund Me is has the goal of 24k.

This with bells on.

She's not "correcting" me - she's got it wrong.

No it's 2.4k

I don't normally comment on this subject, but to be fair, the McCann's apartment was only 55 metres away as the crow flies. It was 82 metres on foot. Also, the apartment block was in line of sight, but not their specific apartment, and certainly not the children's bedrooms, which were around the back of the apartment, so completely out of sight.