RBN # 12 - 6/19 - 6/20/05

[Juvenal]

Professor, check PM

[waitingtoknow]

When I try to quote I click on the quote button on the top right hand side of their post...but it still comes up with the word quote instead of a box...therefore...I just don't try anymore..too confusing

[iquitos]

iquitos, when you are quoting someone, are you clicking the button to the upper-right of their post that is labeled "Quote"?

 

that is what i am doing.  is it my mac?

[friend of monkeys]

Is Curacao the place where the prison heard helicopters and was afraid prisoners were escaping?

No. It was on St. Lucia -- the island (as opposed to Santa Lucia, Aruba.)

 

no it was santa lucia mi dushi

No, mi dushi, the prison with the helicopters flying over was St. Lucia Island -- at the same time helicopters were flying over Santa Lucia Aruba looking for Natalee.

    is that official???

[tuberide]

Rich...for this to be true wouldn't "THEY" have to know in advance how much money Natalee's family had or something?? I mean you don't just pick out any old girl and HOPE they have a bunch of money for ransom!!

Actually kerin, just the fact you're an american people especially in so. america tend to think you have money. Kidnapping of americans working or traveling right across the water from aruba in venez., columb, etc., even mexico, are kidnapped. regular not rich americans. also their own citizens who have money. some can be held months and months. rebel forces use it as way to earn money. that's their "business."

"regular" americans who can afford to travel anywhere like these places for fun ARE rich in most locals eyes...there are super rich people in the places also, but they generally know how to operate safely

[Lausa]

iquitos, when you are quoting someone, are you clicking the button to the upper-right of their post that is labeled "Quote"?

 

that is what i am doing.  is it my mac?

Testing...testing...from my mac...let's see

[TTownMike]

seriously...you are saying that a pretty girl in a foreign country, on a HS trip, no one knows her locally (what her family does, how much money, connections, etc) but yet you have a bunch of kidnappers who say "hey, let's snatch THAT girl and hope her family has the million dollars we will ask for"??
Maybe if she was a celebrity, well known daughter of a US politician...ANYONE who could have been known in another country but we are talking about a normal US HS student from small town USA, not Bill Gates daughter!

Assuming your family does not have a ton of money...if I kidnapped you don't you think that your family would find a way to come up with the dough.  Maybe that's what is taking so long...they are having adifficult time meeting the demand and are negotiating.  Again...it's just a theory that is fit to the facts.

I wish it were that simple!  While I don't think they are "rich"  sotaspeak, I feel that if it were a matter of coming up with it, Nat would be home by now!

[mountainmac]

You definitely do not have to be wealthy to go on these types of trips. My senior class had a fruit sale and a BBQ Dinner sale and most seniors raised enough money to pay for their entire cruise to the Bahamas.

[iquitos]

I am curous to know what percentage of the graduating class made the trip vs, how many did not and if there was controversy surrounding the trip.  i also want to know who marketed and sold it, who profited from the sales, and who got the free tickets you get every so many tickets sold and free hotel rooms.  Was there a travel agency and a faculty member involved in the marketing.  If there are 849 kids at the high school 10-12 then there ought ot be about 1/3 seniors, say 283.  Does that mean less than half the senior class participated?   Why so few? money? other factors?

There's about 300-320 of us seniors. About half the class went, a little less than that. Part of the reason was cost...some people had other plans already...some had college orinetation....some weren't allowed to go. It wasn't a "get free tickets" thing...just a trip organized by a mom, just like every other year. No faculty member was involved in marketing.

 

Thanks, Was there a travel agency?  Not a journalist not a professional blogger just hooked.  never done this before.  Somehow I got a call.

[GreatOwl]

that is what i am doing.  is it my mac?[/quote]

I doubt it is the Mac.  I am using one.  Check to see if the HTML is OFF and the BBCode is ON.

[mbhs05]

I am curous to know what percentage of the graduating class made the trip vs, how many did not and if there was controversy surrounding the trip.  i also want to know who marketed and sold it, who profited from the sales, and who got the free tickets you get every so many tickets sold and free hotel rooms.  Was there a travel agency and a faculty member involved in the marketing.  If there are 849 kids at the high school 10-12 then there ought ot be about 1/3 seniors, say 283.  Does that mean less than half the senior class participated?   Why so few? money? other factors?

There's about 300-320 of us seniors. About half the class went, a little less than that. Part of the reason was cost...some people had other plans already...some had college orinetation....some weren't allowed to go. It wasn't a "get free tickets" thing...just a trip organized by a mom, just like every other year. No faculty member was involved in marketing.

 

Thanks, Was there a travel agency?  Not a journalist not a professional blogger just hooked.  never doen this before.  Somehow I got a call.

Not that I know of. Ask Dash.

[klaasend]

Iquitos and I seem to have the same problem with quoting....

It seems that with some posters it works correctly and others it doesn't.

I followed directions on how to do it step by step and it never came up in boxes...only with the word quote at the beginning and end....

very strange

When you want to quote a post all you need to do is click on the QUOTE button above the message you want to quote.  It will put that quote into your reply message.  Try it and you will see what I mean.

[tuberide]

You definitely do not have to be wealthy to go on these types of trips. My senior class had a fruit sale and a BBQ Dinner sale and most seniors raised enough money to pay for their entire cruise to the Bahamas.

cruise to bahamasa is not a trip to central/south america or the dutch carribbean

and also 20,000 is ALOT of money to many people

[waitingtoknow]

Even though I think that the kidnap story just might be true....If money was what was keeping them from getting Natalee...all they would have to do is ask the public to help...wait..they are...oh my

donations to banks to help family...hmmmmm

[iquitos]

that is what i am doing.  is it my mac?

I doubt it is the Mac.  I am using one.  Check to see if the HTML is OFF and the BBCode is ON.[/quote]

which should be on?  i am disable bbc

[KerinTX]

You definitely do not have to be wealthy to go on these types of trips. My senior class had a fruit sale and a BBQ Dinner sale and most seniors raised enough money to pay for their entire cruise to the Bahamas.

See that was my line of thinking, too. I am the senior class sponsor and I know the kids who really wanted to go on the trip got out and earned money through car washes and bake sales, etc.
But again, I have no idea how the people of Aruba view Americans, so thank you to all that posted how we are "viewed".

[KKM]

Quote Issue:

I think this may be the problem.

Hit the "quote" button in the upper right and corner.

When you go to type your message though, begin typing IMMEDIATELY after the quote.

I may be wrong, but I believe if you hit enter and then start typing, that is what gives you the

thing.

[Hera]

Joran and his father were known to frequent bars and casinos until the wee hours of the morning.  Who among us would allow our teenagers to go out without a curfew no later than midnight?  Nothing good happens in the early morning hours.  IMO, the lack of rules assigned to Joran has contributed to this crime.

[unsurelok]

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/federal.htm

Section 1201. Kidnapping

    * Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds any person who has not attained the age of eighteen when the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

 The FBI has no investigative jurisdiction outside the United States, except on the high seas and other locations specifically granted by Congress. Therefore, assistance in locating missing children in other countries is limited to liaison with foreign law enforcement authorities through the U.S. Department of State, the FBI's Legal Attaché program, and Interpol.

They have more kidnapping expertise than any other US LE

[katya]

Katya's right....a media whore.

Maybe so but I guess there's worse things in this world you could be than a "media whore" . Kidnapper, murderer, drug dealer comes to mind...

But they are not exclusive. You could be a media whore and a serial killer at the same time. To me, a media whore is someone who tries to manipulate me This congress person has absoulutely no fast track into the workings of this case; he googled his ideas just like you and me. Maybe someone else could point me in the direction to where the murder of an American, blone virgin is more important than any other death?

I'm just curious about the mystery.

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