Teen Sailor in peril
 

This is the young woman attempting to solo circumnavigate the globe. Hope she can be rescued. She's 16. Her brother did it at 17. I can't even imagine.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin

I hope they find her and send her parents the bill and execute them if they can't pay for raising an attention whore with no regard for anyone but herself.

i hope they find her and send the parents congratulations on raising a self-confident child.

just because she's in the news doesn't make her an attention whore, pants.

Yeah that's the reason why she's an attention whore because she's in the news. Not because she's doing something that's extremely dangerous that very few people gave a s.hit about until she went missing.

i'd rather raise a kid that broke an arm climbing a tree than one afraid to climb trees.

even if there's a chance the kid gets more than a broken arm.

she's not on espn jumping over a las vegas monument on new years eve. she's sailing around the world solo.

Yeah because this is totally like climbing a tree. No big deal.

Hell two more posts from you and I might start hoping she dies.

just like solo sailing the world is exactly like automatically being an attention whore.

It is.

"Look at me I'm the youngest evar! I beat my brothar! LOL GTG"

Sorry you can't see it for what it is. This kind of dumb s.hit is why foreigners hate us.

And looking these turds up on wikipedia...

they have 7 kids...and the mother is in labor again. The boy who broke the record is the oldest.

So more than likely we'll have to read about these s.hitheads for the next 15-20 years.

foreigner's hate us because we're either ignoring soccer or invading them.

i'd like to take an expert's opinion on attention whoring but i just think you're way off base here.

Yeah I'm way off base. It's not like a high percentage of teenagers are attention whores. You never see teenagers making a scene in movie theaters, malls, etc.

It doesn't help that her parents think a vagina is a clown car and maybe I'm a little biased because they are Catholic and prefer to home school their children...but make no mistake, they wouldn't do this if they didn't receive accolades for it. And if you forced her to take a polygraph I guarantee you two of the reasons why she did it was to beat her brother and impress her parents.

What parent lets a child and she is one except in places where its ok to marry a 12 year old let either child go on a boat alone around the world . WTF ? Its one thing raising a child to be confident and brave and smart and it is a totally other thing to just feed them to the elements. Would anybody let their child hike to the South Pole alone?

only attention whores, apparently.

Yeah well that failed zinger means you're right. Keep fighting the good fight, you smug libtard.

and by that sleight of hand lost children remain the real attention whores.

attention whore 11948 up, 608 down

Label given to any person who craves attention to such an extent that they will do anything to receive it. The type of attention (negative or positive) does not matter.


You're wrong. Just shut the f.uck up.

Obviously, their attitude is that if God wants her back, then they'll make more.

16 year old kids can barely drive a car, and these parents allow their daughter to sail, alone, around the world. brilliant.

And it's found she's safe. Good news. Ship keel broken and demasted. She has heat and two weeks food, she'll be picked up.

I'm surprised so many here think age is the primary determinant of learned ability, skill and experience. Where was the outrage for Samantha Larson and Jessica Watson? Or 10-year-olds riding ATV's or using power lawn mowers?

Uhm because its the very vast ocean and no one is close by or maybe that its just stupid. Would you let your child hike to the South Pole by themselves?

When they wander 3000 kilometers from home you might have a point. Nevermind being in the ocean.

i think any parent who allows a sixteen year old to travel around the world alone, regardless of means of transportation, is a nut. and other sailors have said there is no way she gained enough experience at her age to handle any and every disaster that could befall her at sea. i don't get the need to tackle something like that at that age. and no, ten year olds shouldn't be driving atv's. now, she may be a dammed precocious 16 year old, good for her. still disagree with them letting her make the attempt.

Danger is relative to skill, ability, preparation, mental maturity. Another teenager just solo sailed the world a couple weeks ago. A teenager just climbed Everest.

I don't get the need to tackle that at any age!

and neither could sign a contract, lease, medical release etc. etc. But then again I saw a 3yr old smoking and a 6yr old drinking recently so I may be a bit old fashioned. :wf

The kid who climbed Everest wasnt alone and for the other parents who let their kid sail solo they are idiots too . You know I grew up on a farm and learned how to drive a tractor when I was 8 but I didnt do it alone , I learned how to ride a horse when I was 5 but I didnt do that alone either . I could run a drill press a lathe and form press when I was 12 but I didnt do that alone either. If their daughter would have died would you still think it was a great idea ? Usually I dont call people names on here but the masses are right , you are a nimrod.

I guess if daring to not share your opinion means someone is a nimrod, I'm far from the only one :p

It's interesting, the number of people here who are simply mentally incapable of disagreeing about subjects without changing the subject and hissing personal attacks at other posters. Geesh, you people must be deeply, lastingly unhappy with yourselves.

Its not that but you insist that yours is the only opinon that is the correct one. For the record Im very hoppy with myself :).

Well said. I wondered the same thing myself.

i've raised three kids who seem bright and intelligent enough. but i still cringed when two took a road trip to connecticut and back. can't imagine them going round the world like that--alone! that's the main thing...all alone in that huge expanse of water. that vastness would be enough to bring a seasoned sailor to their wits end. hell, i raised my kids with a lot of knowledge of history, including llewelyn the great who went to recapture his welsh lands at the age of thirteen-but even he had help.

No, I don't, actually.

Nice try, but your behaviour is not my fault :)

That's your mommy genes at full throttle ;) :tro:

LOL , you really are fabulous and yes you do.

First..I agree that she shouldn't be sailing around the world..Much like those nimrods who said their son was in that balloon, it's more about themselves than their child.

BUT....To come down on Riot for saying her opinion is the only correct one when this forum is littered with the exact same know it alls posting as god fearing, Obama bashing, kool aid (Fox, Beck, Rush,etc) drinking right wing lemmings is PKB.

And..I know you aren't one of the above, but..

Well I might be one but usually I keep it to myself I really do for the most refrain from name calling. Last night my inside voice came out , my bad .

;)

Reality TV, that's what it's about.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...BcBCM5v3s23ULK

Stories like this are exactly why God invented the process of "Natural Selection."

How is this different from those idiots who drive through an active railroad crossing signal?

there is tons of outrage against that, if you are a responsible person. ATV's kill so many kids under 18. I didnt have any outrage for Larson or Watson cause I've never heard of them until this issue. You really think its responsible to let a 16 year old sail around the world... and go into Southern Hemi waters where the most accomplished sailors have said that only an idiot sails through the southern hemi in the winter?

oh the irony. You and Booth Operator should make a baby. You are both the queens of Irony.