First Gear-Grind of the new Forum

We bought our flat during covid, which made the process even longer.

Buying in the UK is annoying, but glad we did.

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Lease companies and their predatory calculations. I reckon I’d rather pay the tax than see most of the savings go to a third party who does F all but clip a ticket.

Also unless you want an EV, or drive a fuck tonne they are basically worthless.

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Anything related to Melissa Caddick. I get why initially it was a news story, but she’s been dead for 3 years and shes still somehow in the news cycle.

Sha faked her death 3 years ago…

If she’s not really dead… she definitely has one less foot now. Obviously not insurmountable, but can’t be doing well in her potential ‘second life’.

You want a foot? I can get you a foot, believe me.

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Shut the fuck Donny, you’re out of your element.

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I’d take prison over losing a foot… It’s mostly just reading books and table tennis anyways

100% Koletti did it.

Bloke is dumb enough to have thought he’d get to keep all the assets.

There’s a podcast called Liar, Liar that’s all about the Melissa Caddick case. Swindled podcast also did an episode on her.

There is no way Anthony Koletti had anything to do with her disappearance. He definitely delayed alerting the authorities to her disappearance but that is just about the extent of his involvement.

If anyone is guilty of facilitating her disappearance, it’s her father.

There is an underbelly show on Melissa Carrick. It is almost worth a watch although they don’t really give any conclusions. They don’t suspect the husband but he does seem a bit thick

There is no way the husband is innocent in all of this, he certainly knows more than what he’s let on.

I don’t believe somebody of MC’s cunning and manipulative stature wouldn’t have an exit plan. Her exit plan certainly wouldn’t have been to just throw herself off a cliff.

She would have siphoned off thousands of dollars into offshore bank accounts for something like this. The foot is a nice ruse, but had she thrown herself off the clifs where the cops said she did, you wouldn’t have a cleanly shorn foot just rock up a few hundred meters south.

I feel sorry for her son though. Other than the investors, he’s the real victim in all of this.

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The boyfriend seems thick as shit, and would struggle to tie his shoes let alone get away with murder.

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No, but he’s smart enough to keep his mouth shut and play the innocent victim card.

If you get the chance listen to the 2 podcasts I mentioned. She definitely had offshore accounts.

As for the foot it isn’t actually that improbable for it to wash up where it did if she entered the water at Driver Heights.
I think it was Thinking Sideways pod that did a story on a bunch of feet that washed up on a beach somewhere. It turned out that they were from a plane crash months earlier.
Basically the ankle is a really weak joint and the foot separates from the lower leg. Modern day shoes are really good at preserving the foot and are also very bouyant because of the polyester and foam. Once the skin rots away or marine life chews through it the foot floats away.
For Melissa Caddick it is quite possible that she broke her ankle entering the water and when her foot broke off from her body it got picked up by the East Australia Current which took it south.

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Yeah when I heard about the foot washing up down south I thought of this straight away.

Thought I read that some Physical oceanographers confirmed the time and date she is said to have jumped would correspond with the current patterns that would have pushed it down south.

Also that the ankle did not show any signs of cutting etc.

Still, love the mystery of it all

The thing about the EAC is it doesn’t actually flow properly along the coastline, but off the shelf ~10nm east. It’s got a long way to go out before it would meet a current strong enough to push it that far south.

Was there any evidence of any pesky sea creatures having a nibble on it?

On the news today I heard someone say that Elon Musk’s rocket has just experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. We need to start a Crimes Against the English language thread.

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Huge shame he wasn’t in it.

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