# The international Pumpkin saga. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858 "2007-09-20T09:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/101 "2008-03-03T05:43:09Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne] [url=[Flatmates massaged fugitive's ego to lure him into their trap](http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/flatmates-massaged-fugitives-ego-to-lure-him-into-their-trap/2008/03/01/1204227055200.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1)]What the fuck? Haven’t the police got access to telephone interpreters? [/QUOTE] The overwhelming monolingual character of most of the U.S. still surprises some folks. I doubt that any but the largest U.S. cities employ receptionists/operators who would even be aware of translation services for incoming phone calls–and then they are more likely to be limited to languages of large immigrant communities. Technically, they were in Chamblee, not Atlanta, and Chamblee, despite its diverse immigrant population has fewer than 10,000 residents, so it might not have a really strong tax base for extra police services. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/102 "2008-03-03T06:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne] [url=[Flatmates massaged fugitive's ego to lure him into their trap](http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/flatmates-massaged-fugitives-ego-to-lure-him-into-their-trap/2008/03/01/1204227055200.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1)]What the fuck? Haven’t the police got access to telephone interpreters? [/QUOTE] Of course they do. Yankee to Redneck, Redneck to Yankee Buckhead (Yuppie) to Redneck, Redneck to Buckhead (Yuppie) Yuppie to Yankee, Yankee to Yuppie ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/103 "2008-03-03T11:36:16Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Which, ironically, is pronounced ‘Hitler’. [/QUOTE] **Mangy** , darls, you have managed to take Godwinising to whole new depths in this thread. I bow before your brilliance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/104 "2008-03-03T11:45:39Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] I thought her name was Qian Xun Xue. Where did Nan Gua come from if I might ask? [/QUOTE] “Southern Gourd” aka “Pumpkin” in pinyin. Or Hitler, if you’re in the western provinces. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/105 "2008-03-09T21:33:55Z")
Xue arrived in Auckland this morning and [has been charged with murder.](http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4433300a6000.html) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/106 "2009-06-20T01:49:34Z")
Update update: [fucko has been tried and found guilty of murder.](http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5666948/xue-found-guilty-of-wifes-murder/) Sentencing in late July. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/107 "2009-06-20T04:17:11Z")
**Scissorjack** ’s update above beat **Cunctator** ’s by seven minutes. > **[Update on the "Pumpkin" saga. Father convicted of wife's murder](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=521714)** > > Previous thread on the story of Nai Yin Xue, who abandoned his three year old daughter Qian Xun (tagged “Pumpkin” by the media) at a Melbourne station in September 2007, having fled New Zealand after the alleged murder of his wife An An Liu. Well,... ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858/108 "2009-06-22T01:48:48Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I don’t know if he is traveling under arrest or not, but there is nothing to prevent the police in NZ from sending a couple of very large burly officers to the US, and set them up on the very same return flight. > Furthermore, I would be more than willing to bet the airline would be happy to give these officers the seats on either side of him. The seat on at least one side of him would be occupied by a large burly USCIS/INS operative. When you get deported they stick someone on the plane with you to make sure you don’t pull a _Commando/Catch Me If You Can_ and escape before takeoff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-pumpkin-saga/419858.md?page=5)