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(BBC)   Following the death of her husband woman undergoes grief counselling and decides to search for son she give up at birth when she was nineteen. Discovers he was a passenger on Pan-Am flight 103 blown up over Lockerbie 24 years earlier   ( bbc.co.uk) divider line
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abb3w [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 05:19:42 PM  
Not all the endings are as happy as in the movie Philomena.
 
rooftop235 [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 05:26:47 PM  
ouch.
 
labman [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 06:30:24 PM  
Merry Christmas !
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:05:05 PM  
Followup: Kills herself because there can't possibly be any other ending to this story.
 
The My Little Pony Killer
2013-12-14 08:05:42 PM  
Maybe some nice family can adopt a grandma this Christmas?
 
Eponymous
2013-12-14 08:05:46 PM  
on the flip side....maybe she's eligible for a victim's payout on the bombing.
 
SirEattonHogg [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:05:52 PM  
So, no funny punchline on this story?
 
BlackMtnMan
2013-12-14 08:09:28 PM  

The My Little Pony Killer: Maybe some nice family can adopt a grandma this Christmas?


Yah, I'd say she tried, eventually. Won't ease her pain.
 
DirtyDeadGhostofEbenezerCooke
2013-12-14 08:10:13 PM  
"Just let it go, woman.  Quit looking, because it all goes bad when you look." - Schrodinger's Cat
 
martid4
2013-12-14 08:12:36 PM  
The children of Lockerbie got luggage for Christmas.
 
LewDux
2013-12-14 08:13:52 PM  
Thanks, Qaddafi
 
HotWingAgenda
2013-12-14 08:16:29 PM  
This is the worst caturday thread ever.
 
sendtodave
2013-12-14 08:17:02 PM  
What a twist!

I never would have thought that someone was related to someone else who died.
 
Generation_D
2013-12-14 08:19:30 PM  
Witnesses saw a flash of light rising up to meet the plane, before the explosion.
 
CommonName2
2013-12-14 08:21:35 PM  
This shows the importance of friendship. If she had a good group of friends, she wouldn't have an empty life that needed to be filled with the Hail Mary shot of a son she had essentially never met.
 
Gnu Mutant
2013-12-14 08:22:02 PM  
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LordJiro
2013-12-14 08:26:04 PM  

Generation_D: Witnesses saw a flash of light rising up to meet the plane, before the explosion.


Witnesses to events like that 'see' or misidentify all sorts of things. Like the people who thought the dust and debris being ejected by collapsing skyscrapers were explosives.
 
JungleBoogie
2013-12-14 08:26:12 PM  
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The more you eat the more you fart
2013-12-14 08:26:35 PM  
Fark.

I feel horrid for this woman....

Thats gotta be one of the saddest things ive read in a long time.
 
InfrasonicTom
2013-12-14 08:39:12 PM  
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GBB
2013-12-14 08:41:34 PM  
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Fear the Clam [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:42:59 PM  

Eponymous: on the flip side....maybe she's eligible for a victim's payout on the bombing.


Not a chance. She gave up the kid; she gets nada, bupkis, sweet fark all.
 
Badafuco [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:43:35 PM  
Wow, that's awful. Couldn't get much worse news.

Unless she went home to find her dog died and the cable wasn't fixed.
 
umad
2013-12-14 08:43:44 PM  

InfrasonicTom: [i.ytimg.com image 480x360]


shakes fist.
 
tripleseven
2013-12-14 08:45:12 PM  

LordJiro: Generation_D: Witnesses saw a flash of light rising up to meet the plane, before the explosion.

Witnesses to events like that 'see' or misidentify all sorts of things. Like the people who thought the dust and debris being ejected by collapsing skyscrapers were explosives.


You know, this wasn't twa flight 800.


103 was confirmed terrorism, blown up by a bomb in a radio.
 
Shirley Ujest
2013-12-14 08:45:23 PM  

abb3w: Not all the endings are as happy as in the movie Philomena.


What is your definition of " Happy Ending"?
 
berylman [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:46:08 PM  
I need more grief in my life...any advice, counselor?
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:48:24 PM  
Was it Ringworld that posited that not only is luck real but it's a genetic trait?

Hypothesis: This woman is one of the unlucky, she passed on her unlucky genes after mating with an unlucky guy and the alleles combined into one REALLY unlucky kid.

Procedure: Comp this lady some chips in Vegas for a few weeks and chart her progress. Also use a really lucky bastard, like Paris Hilton or Kevin Federline. Compare.
 
WTP 2
2013-12-14 08:49:51 PM  
counselor: what?
 
shower_in_my_socks [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:51:44 PM  

Gyrfalcon: Followup: Kills herself because there can't possibly be any other ending to this story.


Grandma got run over by a reindeer
After jumping in front of it on purpose
 
zzrhardy
2013-12-14 08:52:25 PM  
Plot twist: she doesn't realise she is actually dead as well.

* This news story brought to you by M Night Shyamalan
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 08:58:16 PM  
At least she could become a suicide bomber and avenge his death by blowing up... by blowing up...

Who's left to blow up since the Libyan regime changed and the fake cancer bomber guy finally died?

Wow, her life sucks.
 
FrancoFile [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-12-14 08:58:24 PM  

doglover: Was it Ringworld that posited that not only is luck real but it's a genetic trait?

Hypothesis: This woman is one of the unlucky, she passed on her unlucky genes after mating with an unlucky guy and the alleles combined into one REALLY unlucky kid.

Procedure: Comp this lady some chips in Vegas for a few weeks and chart her progress. Also use a really lucky bastard, like Paris Hilton or Kevin Federline. Compare.


You didn't read deep enough.  Niven left a lot of outs - especially in the sequel.
 
Lee451
2013-12-14 09:10:51 PM  

doglover: Was it Ringworld that posited that not only is luck real but it's a genetic trait?

Hypothesis: This woman is one of the unlucky, she passed on her unlucky genes after mating with an unlucky guy and the alleles combined into one REALLY unlucky kid.

Procedure: Comp this lady some chips in Vegas for a few weeks and chart her progress. Also use a really lucky bastard, like Paris Hilton or Kevin Federline. Compare.


Thinking of Teela Brown?
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 09:13:09 PM  

Lee451: doglover: Was it Ringworld that posited that not only is luck real but it's a genetic trait?

Hypothesis: This woman is one of the unlucky, she passed on her unlucky genes after mating with an unlucky guy and the alleles combined into one REALLY unlucky kid.

Procedure: Comp this lady some chips in Vegas for a few weeks and chart her progress. Also use a really lucky bastard, like Paris Hilton or Kevin Federline. Compare.

Thinking of Teela Brown?


I am now.
 
apoptotic
2013-12-14 09:17:01 PM  
Yeah that sucks. But looking on the bright side, he'll never disappoint her.
 
No Such Agency
2013-12-14 09:21:01 PM  
doglover:
Was it Ringworld that posited that not only is luck real but it's a genetic trait?

Of course it was... engineered into humans by the Puppeteers via the Birthright Lotteries.  Teela was one of the innately lucky products of this scheme.  I can't believe I remember that.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2013-12-14 09:21:35 PM  
So, porn?

*clicks link*

*barf*

Why did you people not warn me?
 
WeirdAuntMartha
2013-12-14 09:29:12 PM  
"She was being taken from the hospital where she had given birth to her sister's house..."

The poor sentence structure and lack of appropriate punctuation hurts my vagina.
 
Forecaster18
2013-12-14 09:32:23 PM  

The more you eat the more you fart: Fark.

I feel horrid for this woman....

Thats gotta be one of the saddest things ive read in a long time.


This.
 
Medic Zero
2013-12-14 09:32:54 PM  

martid4: The children of Lockerbie got luggage for Christmas.


That might be the ultimate "going to hell" fark statement.

I lol'd
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 09:41:53 PM  

martid4: The children of Lockerbie got luggage for Christmas.


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Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute
2013-12-14 09:58:58 PM  
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"We've been waiting for you"
 
Unixfreak
2013-12-14 10:00:48 PM  
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Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute
2013-12-14 10:02:39 PM  
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Has NOT been waiting for you.
 
Pugdaddyk
2013-12-14 10:22:03 PM  
...cuz it's too late baby now, it's too late...
 
SirEattonHogg [TotalFark]
2013-12-14 10:37:32 PM  
Okay, but think about this a further step - she waited 45 years before looking for her son.  Her son would be 45 years old if he was still alive. That's basically middle age. Prior to 45, the chances of her son having died prematurely from a disease, car accident, murder, overdose, or some other tragic circumstance would be significant.  It's of course sad for her, but she must have thought in the back of her head, there is always the chance that he may have died earlier due to some tragic circumstance.

Does the fact that her son died in a very highly publicized tragic event make it any better or worse?
 
Prof. Frink
2013-12-14 10:52:49 PM  
Could be worse, some sort of Oedipus thing.
 
oryx
2013-12-14 11:19:06 PM  
So much for grief counseling! I always hate that when they say about some tragedy that grief counselors have been made available.
 
theBigBigEye
2013-12-14 11:28:56 PM  

SirEattonHogg: Okay, but think about this a further step - she waited 45 years before looking for her son.  Her son would be 45 years old if he was still alive. That's basically middle age. Prior to 45, the chances of her son having died prematurely from a disease, car accident, murder, overdose, or some other tragic circumstance would be significant.  It's of course sad for her, but she must have thought in the back of her head, there is always the chance that he may have died earlier due to some tragic circumstance.

Does the fact that her son died in a very highly publicized tragic event make it any better or worse?


You're right. But it goes to a whole new level when she learns that her son was killed by some terrorist farkbag in one of the most highly tragic and publicized terrorist acts in aviation history.
 
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