George and Cindy in NC

[vlpate]

Interesting that you chose to reply to the silly line in my post.. I'll have to find a "joking" smiley next time.

Anyway. Have YOU seen any other photos besides the one of George by the 50% off rack and Cindy peeking over the top of another clothes rack? I'm simply trying to figure out why some folks believe those two photos represent a "chase all around" the mall.. :dunno: If there was a "chase" around that mall, surely there would be more photos, and possibly even one of the two of them together! Wow.. :waitasec:

I honestly haven't even seen the pictures, not the least bit interested...I've seen people shop before. I do wonder why George would be by the 50% off rack when they are making a killing off.....ummm....whatever it is they are making a killing off of.

I saw the home depot video tonight and it appeared to me they were being chased - aka, pursued. IMO though, "grainy pictures",as you describe them, taken without their knowledge, sounds more like stalking than chasing.

 

[Chilly Willy]

I honestly haven't even seen the pictures, not the least bit interested...I've seen people shop before. I do wonder why George would be by the 50% off rack when they are making a killing off.....ummm....whatever it is they are making a killing off of.

I saw the home depot video tonight and it appeared to me they were being chased - aka, pursued. IMO though, "grainy pictures",as you describe them, taken without their knowledge, sounds more like stalking than chasing.

Right. Remember the grainy pictures of the A's taken poolside as they relaxed at some exclusive resort - turned out not to be them. I can't imagine myself hiding behind some ferns or a clothing rack and snapping candid photos of people I don't know doing ordinary things like shopping or lounging around - and then accusing the subject of the photos of seeking the attention :waitasec:. It doesn't begin to make sense.

 

[Chilly Willy]

Well, thank you so much.I've been reading some of these later posts and see the same old themes.Some dislike the Anthonys and look at their actions with suspicions.Others jump at any negative comment and lash out to defend the Anthonys.I say if George and Cindy really were worried about being photographed in that mall, we would have heard from them.MOO.

I haven't seen anyone lashing out to defend the Anthonys. It is your theory then, that if the A's did not want attention drawn to them in the media, they would go to the media and say so? Hmmmm.....I'll have to think about that one.

 

[Anakerie]

I honestly haven't even seen the pictures, not the least bit interested...I've seen people shop before. I do wonder why George would be by the 50% off rack when they are making a killing off.....ummm....whatever it is they are making a killing off of.

I saw the home depot video tonight and it appeared to me they were being chased - aka, pursued. IMO though, "grainy pictures",as you describe them, taken without their knowledge, sounds more like stalking than chasing.

The only thing I saw of the 2 photos was that video of the news report about them shopping at that mall.. To be honest, initially I couldn't even tell it was them! The images were somewhat blurry/grainy... But that's what happens with a lot of cell phones. They are PHONES, not cameras.. :dunno: You just don't get a sharp, crisp clear photo with them..

As for the Home Depot thing, I don't think I've ever seen it.. I guess I'm not much of a stalker of all things Anthony... At least, not the Cindy and George things.. To be honest, I would rather NOT hear anything about them... Let them go back to their life in Florida and sink into obscurity. The sooner ALL the Anthonys disappear from the news, the better I'll like it. There are too many other cases that need coverage.. Too many missing people, too many murder and just plain too much of everything.

Tonight for instance, I was glued to twitter because one of the local freelance news photographers/videographers got carjacked by a suspect in a high speed pursuit that he'd been covering. He'd positioned himself near the route the chase was heading and as luck would have it, the suspect crashed his "getaway" car near where the journalist was, then took off again in the journalist's car.. I'm hoping to see/hear the rest of the story, but we're all glad he's ok. Curious about the condition of his car now too.. Crazy!

Forgot to mention.. Suspect is in custody after a short foot pursuit after abandoning the journalist's car... The cops sort of had him "surrounded"..

 

[Chilly Willy]

Sorry you were so ill, I hope you're better now.

I agree completely - anyone with a heart would feel at least some empathy for what Cindy and George have been through. No one asks for something so horrific to happen to them. They weren't on trial and they were not convicted of anything. They don't want to give impromptu interviews in the parking lot of Home Depot, they want to tell their story (since, in spite of what people say), many want to hear it, on their terms - and that is their right. Why does no one begrudge Nancy Grace, Jane Velez Mitchell, Dr. Drew, and everyone at HLN for making off of Caylee's death? The Anthony's couldn't make the kind of money this network did if they gave 200 Dr. Phil interviews, yet no one complains. Very confusing to me.

I'm doing much better, thanks. It'll be a while before I'm as good as new, though.

I don't understand the double standard either, but then I also did not understand the double standard as it applied to LP who told more lies and caused more trouble than anyone who inserted themselves in this case (Casey excluded, of course). Why do the very same people who claim to abhor lying see him as some kind of hero?

 

[Anakerie]

I'm doing much better, thanks for asking. It'll be a while before I'm as good as new, though.

I don't understand the double standard either, but then I also did not understand the double standard as it applied to LP who told more lies and caused more trouble than anyone who inserted themselves in this case (Casey excluded, of course). Why do the very same people who claim to abhor lying see him as some kind of hero?

Uhm... Leonard Padilla is NOT any kind of a hero... He's a publicity hound who's doing everything he can to get his face on TV so he can get another "reality" show...

I'm no fan of his at all, but then I'm from the Sacramento Valley where he's pulled a LOT of stunts to get in the news.

ETA: I hope your health continues to improve..

 

[Chilly Willy]

Uhm... Leonard Padilla is NOT any kind of a hero... He's a publicity hound who's doing everything he can to get his face on TV so he can get another "reality" show...

I'm no fan of his at all, but then I'm from the Sacramento Valley where he's pulled a LOT of stunts to get in the news.

ETA: I hope your health continues to improve..

Thank you, Anakerie. I'm going to need to start taking better care of myself and not spend so much time on the computer. Is that the sound of deafening cheers I hear? I'm glad you agree with me about LP but it is a sad truth that some people do admire him. He makes my skin crawl.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

I haven't seen anyone lashing out to defend the Anthonys. It is your theory then, that if the A's did not want attention drawn to them in the media, they would go to the media and say so? Hmmmm.....I'll have to think about that one.

Now that you mention it, I guess that wouldn't hurt. I mean,use the media to their benefit. I apologize about the "lashing out" bit.

 

[Anakerie]

Thank you, Anakerie. I'm going to need to start taking better care of myself and not spend so much time on the computer. Is that the sound of deafening cheers I hear? I'm glad you agree with me about LP but it is a sad truth that some people do admire him. He makes my skin crawl.

I'll never understand the folks who admire the likes of Padilla.. :waitasec: But then I also don't understand the admiration of JVM, NG and some of the other infotainment stars that everyone posts about. It's been a couple years since I watched any of the evening shows on HLN.. Oh well..

 

[deelytful1]

I'll ask again, and hope, since it is stated as fact over and over again, someone will post the source that verifies Cindy Anthony is on disability. Otherwise, IMO, it should stop being stated as fact.

Okay, so they're not on disability .. they're just living off their dead granddaughter and all their "foundations" ...

 

[vlpate]

Okay, so they're not on disability .. they're just living off their dead granddaughter and all their "foundations" ...

Thanks for the clarification

 

[MarthaM]

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Yowza. I don't have enough typewriter ribbon to make that list. Go to youtube and type in her name, you can sit at the computer for days and not get through them all. I recommend you start with the Larry King Show appearances, and really REALLY listen to what she says, the lies she spews with a straight face.

It doesn't look like it'd take much typewriter ribbon. I did as you suggested and searched for all of these interviews the Anthonys did that would take days and days to get through and... nope. No such thing. I see endless repeats on YouTube and other sites, but they're clips from the same old interviews (2008, and another in 2009). I don't see any during or since the trial itself, other than a promo for the upcoming Dr Phil one. Where are the rest of them? I do need a list if I'm to believe that the Anthonys are looking for all kinds of exposure and have done so many interviews that there aren't enough hours in a day to watch them all.

Anyway. Have YOU seen any other photos besides the one of George by the 50% off rack and Cindy peeking over the top of another clothes rack? I'm simply trying to figure out why some folks believe those two photos represent a "chase all around" the mall.. :dunno: If there was a "chase" around that mall, surely there would be more photos, and possibly even one of the two of them together! Wow.. :waitasec:

Wasn't there mention of one of the folks who reported the 'sighting' verifying that they got into a car with Florida license plates? It sounded to me like the people (or at least one of them) who were so excited about seeing the Anthonys that they had to take pictures of them in the mall followed them out to their car.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

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Wasn't there mention of one of the folks who reported the 'sighting' verifying that they got into a car with Florida license plates? It sounded to me like the people (or at least one of them) who were so excited about seeing the Anthonys that they had to take pictures of them in the mall followed them out to their car.

Ok .So someone followed the Anthonys out to their car at this mall.Do you believe that they were harmed in some manner?I don't think getting their picture taken harmed them.

 

[Chilly Willy]

Ok .So someone followed the Anthonys out to their car at this mall.Do you believe that they were harmed in some manner?I don't think getting their picture taken harmed them.

I didn't see anyone claim that the A's were physically harmed. The issue was whether people are chasing/stalking the A's. It seems obvious that they are.

 

[Gnatcatcher]

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It doesn't look like it'd take much typewriter ribbon. I did as you suggested and searched for all of these interviews the Anthonys did that would take days and days to get through and... nope. No such thing. I see endless repeats on YouTube and other sites, but they're clips from the same old interviews (2008, and another in 2009). I don't see any during or since the trial itself, other than a promo for the upcoming Dr Phil one. Where are the rest of them? I do need a list if I'm to believe that the Anthonys are looking for all kinds of exposure and have done so many interviews that there aren't enough hours in a day to watch them all.



Wasn't there mention of one of the folks who reported the 'sighting' verifying that they got into a car with Florida license plates? It sounded to me like the people (or at least one of them) who were so excited about seeing the Anthonys that they had to take pictures of them in the mall followed them out to their car.

You didn't specify "during or after the trial". I was responding to the statement that it was a myth that they overexposed THEMSELVES. I can't count them at the moment, but if you figure between July 16 and December 11, at least once a week (if not once a day in the beginning), they were being interviewed on TV and that's a LOT. Cindy was on Greta's show, Nancy Grace, Jane Valez, the local stations, there was even one where a reporter was standing across the street from her house and you can see Cindy in the background walking across the street with a gigantic binder just to seek out the reporter to get on camera. Yes the reporters were at their house, but they engaged conversation every time, even going so far once as to glance through the crowd and offer "Anybody have anything else for me?" and she stood there waiting for the next question. She would talk endlessly for minutes at a time and never actually complete one single sentence. She most certainly DID overexpose herself. She easily could have shut her mouth, shut her garage door, and refused to comment. People do it all the time. It was Cindy opening her mouth specifically to thrust forward lies all over the public to swerve attention away from Casey, that propelled the public's interest. Or at least mine, that's for sure.

 

[ExpectingUnicorns]

I'm not sure exactly how a person could go about illegally collecting disability. There's not some guy in a long fur trimmed coat standing on the street corner passing out disability checks in Florida, is there? If so, I'm on my way. I totally agree, it has not been confirmed in any way that Cindy is collecting disability - but that fact hasn't prevented the thousands of posts attacking her for abusing it. It is a known fact that disability is not easy to get. Someone in the public eye who is watched and tattled on constantly would have an even more difficult time getting it without irrefutable proof of eligibility.

The way I see it, I can be all perclempt over George and Cindy taking a few days for themselves to escape the madness, or I can just not care what they do so long as it doesn't affect me. People take trips. George and Cindy are people. Ergo, George and Cindy take trips. So?

If people are not jealous of the vacations and "perks" George and Cindy have been getting, they sure are doing a great job pretending to be. I read a lot of, "I don't get to go on vacation.....I don't get to drive a new car.....I don't accessorize (that one kills me :floorlaugh. It sure sounds like jealousy. Or maybe it's just that people want George and Cindy to suffer horribly, never know a happy moment, and live like paupers because what their daughter has done. I'd rather believe it's jealousy.

You assume that any friends of George and Cindy are victimized by them. Why? I assume that anyone who personally knows George and Cindy, as opposed to strangers who unfairly judge, twist, and criticize their every sneeze, has a fair idea of who they are. (Think how many people DO truly know their spouses). I do not in any way think I "know" George and Cindy - which is why I don't judge them so harshly. I do know that people under intense stress and pressure can make mistakes. Throw in some grief and unreasonable, unrelenting hatred from the public - it's no wonder to me at all that the A's have become defensive and combative. They're being attacked on all fronts while also trying to learn to accept the horrible truth that their very own daughter committed the crime of taking their beloved grandchild's life. It's amazing they've survived it, IMO. There is a reason Cindy did qualify for disability at some point - I assume it would be because of emotional issues resulting from Caylee's death. Why do we attack a woman with emotional issues for displaying symptoms of her illness? I'm glad no one blamed me for coughing when I was in ICU all last week with pneumonia and atrial fibrillation.

"Stress of a trial" is exactly the words I meant to use. Obviously Caylee's death was MORE stressful, but that doesn't take away from the stress of the trial, it adds to it. It's all one big package. Unfortunately, there is no cosmic law that limits stressful incidents to one per person.

Thank you for the compliment. Even if we don't agree, it's nice that we can respect and fairly consider each other's opinions.

No one is jealous of Cindy or George; they're irate. That idea is asinine. To assume that anyone here would pay the price they have paid for a simple vacation is insulting. Jealous is a demeaning word!

Their friends? The only only long term frined we know about is George's from his LE days in Ohio. Oh yeah, he left after hearing too much discord in the family, to put it nicely. The others have seemed to be very short termed acquaintances; most with agendas. And did I miss all the family support at trial? Even Lee who had a reserved seat stayed away. Where was the ret of the family? Please tell me about all the friends' support that was altruistic. If someone gave them a vacation to recoup I would love to know who it was. By history I am suspicious.

Jealous is so demeaning. I'm not jealous. I am, though, irate that so many moral, loving people gathered together to try to help them; people who have not been on vacation in years and years and will not be able to within the foreseeable future. Can you imagine how insulting this is for them?

They know they are "special." They didn't have to agree to the vacation with dolphin picture. Cindy (and maybe George, too?) are publicity smart enough to know it would eventually be released. Make ya belly feel better? Not mine.

Yep, people take trips.

Oh, ps, I did read an article, during the large search time, that said one entire family used their vacation time to help with the search. They thought it would be good life lesson for their children. I wonder what they think now.

 

[MarthaM]

You didn't specify "during or after the trial". I was responding to the statement that it was a myth that they overexposed THEMSELVES. I can't count them at the moment, but if you figure between July 16 and December 11, at least once a week (if not once a day in the beginning), they were being interviewed on TV and that's a LOT. Cindy was on Greta's show, Nancy Grace, Jane Valez, the local stations, there was even one where a reporter was standing across the street from her house and you can see Cindy in the background walking across the street with a gigantic binder just to seek out the reporter to get on camera. Yes the reporters were at their house, but they engaged conversation every time, even going so far once as to glance through the crowd and offer "Anybody have anything else for me?" and she stood there waiting for the next question. She would talk endlessly for minutes at a time and never actually complete one single sentence. She most certainly DID overexpose herself. She easily could have shut her mouth, shut her garage door, and refused to comment. People do it all the time. It was Cindy opening her mouth specifically to thrust forward lies all over the public to swerve attention away from Casey, that propelled the public's interest. Or at least mine, that's for sure.

Are you saying that a woman whose granddaughter is missing is overexposing herself by doing interviews and appearing on camera?

As I suspected, the whole thing about the Anthonys craving and insisting on all this 'exposure' is yet another myth.

 

[Concerned Papa]

Are you saying that a woman whose granddaughter is missing is overexposing herself by doing interviews and appearing on camera?

As I suspected, the whole thing about the Anthonys craving and insisting on all this 'exposure' is yet another myth.

My opinion regarding Cindy Anthony can be summed up in one word; Disingenuous.

The first words I ever heard her say were on July 19, 2008:

"If I have to go out myself door-to-door and look for this child until the day I die, I will walk every inch of this earth and open every door and knock on every door and I will look in every nook and cranny until I find her," Cindy Anthony said.

http://www.wesh.com/news/16924325/detail.html#ixzz1WyYXZVwp

Those words touched my emotions deeply. So much so that before I knew it, I was caught up in the search effort. I went to Orlando on three different occasions to personally be a part of the search and even set up a program within my company to pay the standard wages for any of my employees who wanted a day off to join in the search. Several took me up on it.

As time went by, I started reading about her selling Caylee's pictures for $250K, limo rides, trips around the country, "accidentally" giving the FBI the wrong hair brush, immediately scrubbing out the "smell of a damn dead body" in her daughter's car, foundations, and on and on. The list became long.

I started this post out with the word disingenuous. On December 11, 2008, Caylee Marie Anthony's little body was found a few hundred feet from Cindy Anthony's front door. The same woman who drew me in with a pledge to "walk every inch of the earth" and "look in every nook and cranny" didn't even make it down to the end of the street, did she?

The trial is over. Her blatant, perjured testimony played a role in her daughter escaping any responsibility for her granddaughter's murder and still I have to keep reading, seeing, and hearing about this woman. Every time I go to the news, there she is wanting money for her "foundation", swimming with a fish, or buying t shirts in Nassau, just to name a few since the trial.

Now I find out she's scored the grand prize of her hustle. Some guy named "Dr." Phil has reportedly paid her $500,000.00 to be on his show.

Not a bad payday for someone not craving attention, eh?

 

[lorann]

Whether we like or dislike George/Cindy - they will go shopping, they need groceries, they need to run errands, they will need to see doctors and/or dentists, etc. etc. etc. I certainly am not a fan of theirs but have decided that by joining in on any bashing only upsets me. It does not hurt them in the least. In my personal life, I refuse to allow myself to give that power to those I cannot abide, sure not going to give it to these people.

If the public cannot handle this, then when their daughter is seen and the reactions are the same, the public is doing just what her team is stating. She has been granted special favors because of reactions to her not being found guilty. If nobody shows up to support anything - no book signings, no foundation announcements, nothing - that is more powerful that protests.

 

[LambChop]

It reminds me of that jailhouse phone conversation between CA and KC where KC said to CA (paraphased), "I saw your camero...." CA said, "Which one, I did several and I've only seen one or two?"

No one twisted their arms to be on Dr. Phil. Once they exposed themselves to the media in an attempt to clean up the damage they've done they cannot expect for people to leave them alone. Apparently they want to wear their deeds as a badge of honor.

One person taking a picture in a store on the cell phone should hardly be viewed as a stalker. They were not where the local people expected them to be and apparently those people were curious. No one confronted them and it's certainly not the crime of the century.

How many times have people seen a celeb and taken a picture of them because they want to prove to their friends/relatives that they actually saw them. Because we see them on TV constantly I don't think it was a big deal and I doubt the A's did either. They seem to roll with everything right now. jmo