# Recreational Astonished Bemusement: The girl in the drawer.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416 "2008-03-14T23:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/21 "2008-03-15T05:21:23Z")
My youngest son slept in a drawer, as an infant. (We were short a bed, and had the drawer space.) We didn’t close the drawer, though.
Tris
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/22 "2008-03-15T05:23:55Z")
The girl was found a mile from her home, not merely a few hundred yards. She wasn’t right down the block.
[QUOTE=BBC News]
Police found her hidden in the base of a divan bed in a house in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, **a mile from her home**.
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I was slightly mistaken, the abductor is a step-relative of the girl.
[QUOTE=BBC News]
**Her stepfather’s uncle, 39, said locally to use two names - Paul Drake and Mick Donovan - has been arrested on suspicion of abduction.**
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The people commenting on the child’s appearance are ugly in my opinion! :mad: She’s a person, she has a soul, and feelings. Her family and friends love her, [her mother had a terrible Mother’s Day recently](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7272619.stm). ☹
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/23 "2008-03-15T07:39:46Z")
Yanno, sometimes I read a thread but don’t check out the article attached to it because I think it would enrage / upset / whatever me too much. So I didn’t this time either. Everything in the summary just seemed beyond reprehensible to comprehend anyway. Then I see **Zabali** mention that there are people disparaging the young victim’s appearance and I feel like I’ve lost any faith in humanity. How can anyone do this to a child? Especially one that’s been under such unfathomable circumstances.
I agree with a sentiment that I’ve seen expressed many times before… I’d like the world to stop so I can step off. I just don’t understand ever a mindset where this makes sense. Fuckers.
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### Author:  [@Themenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themenin)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/24 "2008-03-15T08:27:45Z")
The abductor should be put away.
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/25 "2008-03-15T09:39:20Z")
[QUOTE=Themenin]
The abductor should be put away.
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Okay, I was giggly through this entire thread, now I’ve lost it.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/26 "2008-03-15T15:50:08Z")
[QUOTE=nocturnal\_tick]
According to neighbours, they heard the sound of “children’s footsteps” in his house despite them thinking he had no children which first alerted the police at which point they forcefully entered and found her.
So despite daily national media coverage and local searches of the highest scale the neighbours only mentioned this now? I don’t think the neighbours are normal let alone the guy.
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Well, I studiously avoid all media coverage of “missing white girl” stories. It’s fairly easy: Don’t watch Fox News, CNN, national news, all but two shows on MSNBC, or read any of the news websites. If I do see anything, I skip right over it (if it’s a webpage) or change the channel. I get my actual news from NPR, Countdown, actual newspaper websites like the Washington Post, sites like Fark (it’s often better than CNN at this point) and Slashdot, the Sunday morning talk shows, and sometimes the SDMB.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/27 "2008-03-15T16:16:53Z")
Ok, from reading this article I’m not finding any evidence that she was in that drawer for a very long period of time. It sounds like her would-be abductor (or whatever) was trying to hide her when the police came.
[QUOTE=Themenin]
The abductor should be put away.
[/QUOTE]
_snerk_
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/28 "2008-03-15T16:28:56Z")
Nah, he should be hanged, drawered and quartered. 😃
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### Author:  [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/29 "2008-03-15T16:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=Hogwash]
…Anyway, to keep the Pit juices flowing, I’ll go ahead and say that if you’re going to abduct a preteen girl, you might as grab one that doesn’t look as though she hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down…
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I know you’re just trying to be funny… but you’re not. Fucking moron.
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### Author:  [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/30 "2008-03-15T17:09:51Z")
Instead of the clever title, I wish you had just used the RO label. If you just wanted sort of cute comments, this should have gone in MPSIMS. In order for it to be in the Pit, it has to have the outrage part. This thread is a mix of both.
I try to avoid the annoying outrage part of these RO threads because they’re really ludicrous. If it had been labeled as RO, it would have saved me a click.
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/31 "2008-03-15T18:07:36Z")
This is one weird-ass pit thread. What’s with all the jokes?
The comment that he should have kidnapped a prettier child is messed up. And not funny. Don’t quit your day job for comedy. You really suck at it.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/32 "2008-03-15T18:34:38Z")
I thought Scissorjack’s comment that it was “clearly an open and shut case” was pretty durned funny.
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### Author:  [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/33 "2008-03-15T19:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=FarmerChick]
I know you’re just trying to be funny… but you’re not. Fucking moron.
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[QUOTE=missbunny]
The comment that he should have kidnapped a prettier child is messed up. And not funny. Don’t quit your day job for comedy. You really suck at it.
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I do apologise for my offensive and patently unfunny remarks. I have learned today that women aren’t objects. They have rights and feelings, and I should respect that.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/34 "2008-03-15T19:59:16Z")
You know, I’m not the type to advocate the suspension of civil rights, even in extreme circumstances. In fact, I’ve aroused a fair bit of anger from the kill-all-criminals crowd for my warm zealotry for freedom (to borrow Thomas Jefferson’s words). I’m not really the type for RO, either.
But in this case, I’m willing to make an exception. I propose that people caught stuffing children in drawers should be immediately strung up and filled with bullet holes in public upon their discovery.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/35 "2008-03-15T20:25:35Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
You know, I’m not the type to advocate the suspension of civil rights, even in extreme circumstances. In fact, I’ve aroused a fair bit of anger from the kill-all-criminals crowd for my warm zealotry for freedom (to borrow Thomas Jefferson’s words). I’m not really the type for RO, either.
But in this case, I’m willing to make an exception. I propose that people caught stuffing children in drawers should be immediately strung up and filled with bullet holes in public upon their discovery.
[/QUOTE]
For storage purposes the bullet holes really should be filled in with moth balls.
As to theOP, not every villian can afford a dungeon or even a basement. They are just trying to make do.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/36 "2008-03-15T21:00:39Z")
I understand the abductor folded under questioning.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/37 "2008-03-15T23:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo]
Instead of the clever title, I wish you had just used the RO label. If you just wanted sort of cute comments, this should have gone in MPSIMS. In order for it to be in the Pit, it has to have the outrage part. This thread is a mix of both.
I try to avoid the annoying outrage part of these RO threads because they’re really ludicrous. If it had been labeled as RO, it would have saved me a click.
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That would be misleading, because I’m not outraged. I’m bemused.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/38 "2008-03-16T00:23:46Z")
At least there wasn’t a lengthy chaise.
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/39 "2008-03-16T00:41:42Z")
I’ve so got to email a link for this thread to my wife. She’ll love this shit.
[QUOTE=missbunny]
This is one weird-ass pit thread. What’s with all the jokes?
The comment that he should have kidnapped a prettier child is messed up. And not funny. Don’t quit your day job for comedy. You really suck at it.
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Sorry **missbunny** , may I present the laughing people reading this thread?
Calling the thread weird implies that it doesn’t meet with your expectations, and the disapproving tone of your post suggests this is a bad thing.
That makes you a fascist you know.
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### Author:  [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-astonished-bemusement-the-girl-in-the-drawer/441416/40 "2008-03-16T00:46:59Z")
When asked if he felt any remorse, the suspect is said to have replied, “I’ve made my bed, now I must lie in it”.
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