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#1 Aug 21 2006 at 11:44 AM Rating: Good
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Aboard the jet he took a window seat next to Mark Spray, an investigator with the Boulder County district attorney's office. The escort also included a U.S. Embassy official and an agent with " Homeland Security" on his shirt.

Before takeoff, Karr took a glass of champagne from a flight attendant and clinked glasses with Spray, who sipped orange juice.

Karr first dined on pate, salad, fried king prawn, steamed rice, broccoli and chocolate cake. He also had a beer — crushing the empty can with his hands — and then had a glass of chardonnay.

Karr appeared to order the drinks himself.

He later dined on roast duck with soy sauce and yellow noodles, and for his third meal had pizza, chocolates and a bottle of Evian.

He sometimes conversed with Spray, who took notes on some of the remarks. Karr told an AP reporter that it was "small talk."

Also during the flight, Karr flipped through movie channels, watched "The Last Samurai," dozed and made several trips to the restroom accompanied by two guards. Each time the door was left slightly ajar.

At one point he changed out of the red shirt and tie, replacing them with a blue polo, but then changed back into the shirt and tie before the landing.

Earlier this year, Karr had gone to the Siam Swan Cosmetic Clinic and its branches in Bangkok to have his sideburns and hair under his chin removed with lasers, Dr. Setthakarn Attakonpan said Monday.

Whole story.

Now I understand 'guilty until proven innocent' etc, but WTF, police? Was there any need to wine and dine him? The more I hear about this guy, the more he just seems like a publicity *****.
#2 Aug 21 2006 at 11:49 AM Rating: Good
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Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore wrote:
"He is going to be housed here in the men's jail"



well that's good, Steve.

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#3 Aug 21 2006 at 11:50 AM Rating: Default
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Yup just read this a bit ago (i'm turning into a huge news junkie, especially for politcal news). So it was a 16 hour flight? I think most oversea's flights only include one meal, except maybe in first class, although I might be wrong. I was actually more outraged about the overcoverage on every aspect of this story.

I am somewhat pissed about his first class treatment, but seriously, who gives a fuck?

If I wanted to read stories like this, i'd read Newsweek or some other bullshit publication.
#4 Aug 21 2006 at 12:00 PM Rating: Decent
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So it was a 16 hour flight? I think most oversea's flights only include one meal, except maybe in first class, although I might be wrong.
I had 3 meals on Northwest from Minneapolis to Tokyo and 3 more from Tokyo back to Detroit. I was definitely not in first class.

This story is truly bizarre. Maybe they are just trying to soften him up?
#5 Aug 21 2006 at 12:02 PM Rating: Good
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I had 3 meals on Northwest from Minneapolis to Tokyo and 3 more from Tokyo back to Detroit.


Baby-raper!
#6 Aug 21 2006 at 12:02 PM Rating: Good
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I read this yesterday and it totally blew me away. Prawns? Champagne? It just seems like such a waste of taxpayer's money to me. If he turns out to not be the guy, I hope they go after him for the costs of bringing his *** back to the US.
#7 Aug 21 2006 at 12:03 PM Rating: Good
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Barkingturtle wrote:
Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
I had 3 meals on Northwest from Minneapolis to Tokyo and 3 more from Tokyo back to Detroit.


Baby-raper!


The only thing Crescent Fresh rapes is the written word.

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#8 Aug 21 2006 at 12:04 PM Rating: Default
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CrescentFresh wrote:
I had 3 meals on Northwest from Minneapolis to Tokyo and 3 more from Tokyo back to Detroit. I was definitely not in first class.


Okies, that's my bad. I just assumed that airlines were cheap and would only provide one, maybe two meals max. Never been on an oversea's flight (obviously). Oh and BT makes a very good point.
#9 Aug 21 2006 at 12:04 PM Rating: Good
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It's been a while since I have flown but isn't food and drink covered in the cost of the plane ticket? I remember gorging myself on peanuts and mountain dew on my last flight down to Toronto?
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#10 Aug 21 2006 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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The only thing CrescentFresh rapes is the written word.
I will not hesitate to invoke Gbaji's Law.

Is it weird that I can't read either '****' or 'prawn' without thinking of the other?
#11 Aug 21 2006 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good
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Is it weird that I can't read either '****' or 'prawn' without thinking of the other?


**** makes me hungry, too.

And just to play devil's advocate, I think it's totally proper to give the man some bubbley before the hard-core prison ***-ramming commences.
#12 Aug 21 2006 at 12:09 PM Rating: Decent
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The "optimistic" interpretation is that they're trying to keep him comfortable and happy and TALKING. Loose lips sink ships, and all that.

But I think it's just a big fat media-circus joy ride. Apparently the going rate for his seat is about $2,000.
#13 Aug 21 2006 at 12:21 PM Rating: Decent
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So if I claim to kill a kid, I get flown half way around the world in business class and get all the premium booze?

Sweet! Dakota Fanning, here I come.
#14 Aug 21 2006 at 12:27 PM Rating: Good
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Most flights going across the pacific cost 2k+.


and I thought I was the one who always invented the drama.... sheeeesh
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#15 Aug 21 2006 at 12:30 PM Rating: Decent
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Alright I know this will sound a little far fetched but think of it this way, if you had a choice of being put in a Thailand Prison or an American Prison, even if it was for something you didn't do what would you chose. Also if nothig else he got a free ride home on behalf of the goverment... I'm just saying....


Its pretty funny when I have to quote myself from the Well Well Well thread, but I called it. Free ride home and he comes up innocent is my bet, the whole issue that he wasn't even living in the same state at the time of this happening seems strange to say the least...
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#17 Aug 21 2006 at 12:42 PM Rating: Good
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The Paskil of Doom wrote:
Yup just read this a bit ago (i'm turning into a huge news junkie, especially for politcal news).


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If I wanted to read stories like this, i'd read Newsweek or some other bullshit publication.


So, you only read bullshit publications, then? Smiley: laugh
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#18 Aug 21 2006 at 12:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Excuse moi, but prawn is the poor man's lobster. They most certainly flew business class.
Smiley: rolleyes


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#19 Aug 21 2006 at 12:59 PM Rating: Good
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I understand they had to fly him back, but all the garnishes were a bit much. "Let's toast to my arrest on child sexual abuse charges! Cheers!" Smiley: dubious
#20 Aug 21 2006 at 1:04 PM Rating: Decent
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Actually, I can't find the article right now, but yesterday there was a column that basically was praising this move of wining and dining the guy as a strategy to keep him relaxed and get him talking while he's not actually officially "in custody." That way, if he says something incriminating it can't be challenged as his being denied his Miranda rights.

#21 Aug 21 2006 at 1:08 PM Rating: Good
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Clinking glasses with the guy you are bringing in for one of the most notorious child murder cases in the nations history seems as a poor move.
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#22 Aug 21 2006 at 1:10 PM Rating: Good
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Hey, the guy doesn't exactly seem like Mr. Personality. I'd need several air pops too if I had to sit with him for 16 hours.

<shrug>

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#23 Aug 21 2006 at 1:34 PM Rating: Decent
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It almost sounded to me like a last dinner request for executions. Probably this will be the best he'll see before going to PMITA.
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#24 Aug 21 2006 at 2:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Apparently the going rate for his seat is about $2,000.


Is this an attemptted tie-in to the legalizing prostitution thread? Does the money go to charity?
#25 Aug 21 2006 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent
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The gubmint's excuse is that they needed to keep this dangerous, muscular prisoner away from the bulk of the people in the cheap seats - for everyone's safety, of course. And that the prawns and champagne were part of the deal, sitting in bidness class. The between-the-lines statement is: "Hey, what's everyone beotchin about? It's now like we flew him first class!"

Our gubmint in action....
#26 Aug 21 2006 at 5:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'd be fine with it if he really did do it and they'd shot him as soon as he got off the plane. Last meal(s) gotta be fancy right?
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