Deleted thread - woman witnessed shootings

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Why would someone troll about this? I find it staggering that a person would go to so much trouble to make it all up. For what gain 🤷‍♀️

@Meowmeow20202

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

We dont know the poster was genuine. They may have worked in the hospital and stolen the "story" and probably not for the first time

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.

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.

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

*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.

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?

@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 thought exactly the same, after initially thinking, how could I have missed a news story like this, I then thought bollocks would she want to become a midwife and be reminded of what she lost so tragically every day!

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.

@BigBadVoodooHat

*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.

Exactly.

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

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.

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