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Twiggyish

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I sounds like this woman made several odd choices at the last minute.

1. Doesn't go home with the others.
2. Cancels several appointments.
3. Buys a bike and decides to go for a ride? That just doesn't make sense.

I also think there is more to this story.

Rissa

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, I can help you with Margot Kidder. Turned out she was bipolar. She had had a MAJOR manic episode after not taking meds. Wasn't she found living in someone's back yard (without their knowledge)? I don't remember the whole thing, but saw a recent interview with her where she was discussing how bad the mania would get for her. She know treats herself "holistically" and apparently is doing great.

Rissa

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
>>>Montoya said she told police she wanted to press charges, although she did not provide any information for police to go on.

"She said she had no recollection of where she had been," said Las Vegas police Lt. Jeff Carlson. "We didn't even get a description as far as white, black, tall , short, fat, skinny - nothing."

Detectives looked for her at Las Vegas airport Wednesday, but she left shortly before noon in a chartered jet from an executive terminal without giving police any information.

"She did not contact us before she left," said Montoya. >>>

This is why Las Vegas police are dropping it. Would a rape/kidnap victim leave the city before having a physical that could help convict her attacker? Would she sneak out when she knew the police were waiting to talk to her?

My gut reaction is that she planned this far in advance so it would look like an unexplained disapearance. But when she was located so quickly, she panicked and started telling kidnapping stories. She is smart enough to know that if she actually gives police false information, she could be arrested.... so is saying nothing at all. But this is so out-of-character for a woman her age, her position, three little kids. Just bizarre.

Sia

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 08:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rissa, I do remember that the press reported that Kidder was lurking behind a woodpile in someone's back yard. Weird. That's a lesson: take your prescribed meds, Margot!

I've been away from home all day today, so I've not seen or read any news. I haven't yet heard the story about the woman from Lethbridge, except for what I've read in this thread. Thanks for the link; I want to go read that. Lying would certainly complicate matters for the woman, so she'd better get her story straight and stick to it--or she should be made to compensate the authorities who made extensive searches for her!!

Rissa

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 06:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, it seems Lethbridge will be short one Alderwoman. LOLOL I found this very brief update this morning:

Alberta Alderwoman Charged by Great Falls Police

Montana police are bound to be much more than a little peeved. They searched for days for this woman, including a helicoptor up and down the Missouri River. Not only the manpower but the sheer cost of the search......

The picture they have at the site, shows her husband with his arm around her. If she was my wife, I would be much more tempted to have my arm around her NECK!!!! LOL Says she is back here now, so we will see what she has to say today. They are bound to make a statement of some sort before long.

Rissa

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Latest: not much added. Dar has until next Thursday to let Montana police know if she wants to file charges against this mystery kidnapper. In the meantime, one of their officers made this comment:

""It's unfortunate. The victim has some issues there that need to be dealth with. I think the person needs to get some help."

They (Montana police) interviewed her for 4 hours (in the presence of Cdn police as well) during which she stuck with her story about the kidnapping and that she has been raped. But police said her story was inconsistant and they believe they have enough evidence (through her own testimony?) to decide she is lying and press charges.

There is still no clue as to how she got to Vegas (it was NOT by plane, rental car, train or bus). If she is making this up then hitch-hiking is all I can think of (unless she rode the dang bike RFLOL)

Weenerlobo

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rissa, that is one crazy story. Could you please keep adding any updates? I'm addicted already.

It does sound like she did plan it, but that it was surely poorly planned!

Rissa

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weener, I am fairly convinced from what people are saying and NOT saying that this is a hard working, middle class married woman with three very young children. She is a municipal level politician who is also extremely and passionately involved in local volunteer work as is her husband who is deputy fire chief. I think she had a breakdown. Something clicked and she took a trip to lala land. I think she planned this to at least SOME extent but she has my sympathy at this point for I feel is a mental health issue.

I am so glad I am finding some interest in the story, because I am totally addicted to it as well. LOL

Latest update: Lethbridge Politician Charged with Lying to Police

>>>>May 08 - 1:37:00PM
The plot continues to thicken around the story of a Lethbridge alderman's strange disappearance in the U.S.
Authorities in Great Falls, Montana say Darlene Heatherington actually drove to Las Vegas voluntarily with a married man from Alberta.
Heatherington disappeared last Saturday while on a business trip in Great Falls.
She turned up in Las Vegas this week claiming she'd been kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
Heatherington is charged in Montana with making false statements to police.>>>

She has now admitted to lying. Says she met a married man who was also from Alberta (but she didn't know him and it wasn't an *affair* situation) and who was going to drive her to CALIFORNIA so she could visit with some old friends who live there. Then she shuts up again and won't say how she ended up in Vegas instead.

Her husband gave a press conference a couple hours ago ( Husband stands by Heatherinton) where he said, in part:

>>>"As a result of her hectic schedule and her extremely busy life, she suffered from an untoward event while in Great Falls," >>>>

The Montana police who are about as fed up as I have ever heard in public statements do not believe she met the man in Montana, but knew him already. They also say that the charge is a misdemeanor but IF there was a felony they could charge her with, they WOULD and they wish they COULD. RFLOL!!!! I shouldn't laugh, I know. :) I am *with* the police in that I think she knew the man already and planned her running away with him. If she had decided to be just be flaky and take off to California, she would have taken her own car. Not to mention the bike purchase and not taking her purse, clothes, etc. Will be interesting if she ever releases the man's name.

Rissa

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmm, I just reread the second link I just posted (about her hubby's press conference) and it says in there that there are reports of Dar having spent a night in a rape crisis centre in Reno!!! That doesn't add up to her lying. Would she have gone to THAT extreme to set up a story if at that point she was still just trying not to be found? Just when I think I am getting my head around it. LOLOL

Meme9

Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm still interested too...there are just to many unanswered questions.

Hippyt

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 01:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Typing Monkeys Fail To Produce Works Of Shakespeare
Primates Use Keyboard As Toilet

POSTED: 10:51 a.m. EDT May 9, 2003

LONDON -- We still can't say whether an infinite number of monkeys would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.

But we do know what would happen if six monkeys were to be given access to a computer for a month. Faculty and students at Britain's Plymouth University did just that. And they say the only thing the primates managed to produce was a mess.

At first, they say, the lead male tried to bash the computer with a rock.


Then, the group tried using the keyboard as a toilet.

Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in -- still not quite literature.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

Essence

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Didn't know where else to put this, but thought it was cute. Something you can share with your children.

Got It Too Easy
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When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up.

What with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizzards carrying their
younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way I was going to lay that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But....

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy!

I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves!

And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen! And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put
it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the
beginning and mess it all up!

You want to hear about hardship?

We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting!
If you were on the phone and somebody else called,
they got a busy signal!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was, it could be your boss, your Mom, a collections agent, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids"! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!

Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you, you watched his hairstyle!

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!

And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!

We had to wait ALL WEEK!

That's exactly what I'm talking about!
You kids today have got it too easy.

You're spoiled!

You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!

30ish Author Unknown

Whit4you

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 05:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Since I can't figure out where to put this...


Just got back from meeting Sage (Jan) for lunch - great lady... we had a fun time talking :)

After lunch we went to Franklin Park and hung out and chatted about TVCH and many other things - and watched all the crazy people with dogs and kids and kites and so on. :)

Spygirl

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay, Whit! Isn't Sage terrific??? If you want, you should post an update about your meeting in the "Road Trips" thread. That is where everyone tends to post about their TVCH meeting, even the ones that do not require a lengthy trip.

Sage

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It was really great meeting Whit! We had a good time, and I was very comfortable and relaxed in her company. I'm very happy that we finally got together. :)

Whit4you

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I got here first sage ne-ner-ne-ner-ne-ner hehe :)

I reposted to the Road Trip there so it'll go in those archives eventually - :) So do share your side there... if you have a chance :)

Rissa

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 06:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lethbridge Alderwoman charged again

Morning all. Thought I would pop in with an update about Dar Heatherington. Now her local police are charging her because they do not believe she was ever stalked and they spent 8 months investigating the issue.

She still has not spoken to the press. Apparently she WANTS to, but her lawyer keeps telling her NO!! LOLOL Also, the city of Lethbridge took out an oversized Ad in the local Montana paper thanking the citizens for their help and apologizing for Dar.

Her husband still 100% believes her, which I find totally bizarre after this length of time. Could he be that deeply in denial or should the public still be willing to think she's a victim?

Abby7

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wasn't sure where to put this. I can't find a thread on this topic already. If one exists, sorry for repeating information, or putting it in the wrong thread.

I'm not sure if any of you are aware of this site: www.thebreastcancersite.com

Every time you visit the site you help fund mammograms. I put myself on a "daily reminder e-mail". I just click on the site, and I'm done...it takes seconds.

Also, check out their products. Really nice, unusual items for very good prices. They also ship many items internationally.

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Twinkie

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, I have a question about the site. I don't see there how a click donates money for a mammogram and second how is word gotten out to women that there are free mammograms. And how many women have benefitted from this? I know my mammograms cost alot and I've never heard of free ones.

Abby7

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks moderator for fixing the link.

Twinkie: if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a FAQ's section. the questions are answered there (and many others).

Twinkie

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Abby!

Marybeth

Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am trying to find someone going to Sunday's Yankee's game.

They are giving away a beanie buddie called "Centennial" to children.

I would love to add this buddie to my collection and am happy to buy the extra ticket if you have a little one to take.

If you can help, please email me,

Marybeth