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rocksmars
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 		What is the definitive spelling of Teddy's last name?

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starshiptrooper wrote:
rocksmars wrote:
The thing that makes me think "Madame Leclerc" is a setup is the fact that the French even know who she is. No one else seems to know who is working for TAG, how did the news station find a family member so fast?
Also why no first name? Because showing it's Janice would tip off that it is related to the post on TIDO to TAG?


Funny thing is, we had 25+ pages discussing a black dot that everyone was convinced was the monster because:

"They wouldn't put anything in the videos if it didn't MEAN something!!"

And the interview with LeClerc gets few mentions. They interview a French woman about her son on a top secret Japanese Oil(?) platform, the picture she shows resembles the original (now removed) Teddy Picture.

Is she Janice? Is her son Teddy? Is her name really LeClerc? Is Teddy's name really Hanssen?

If, like has been said, EVERYTHING in these videos is a clue, then this might be a big one. Hell, these videos proved TIDOwave is IG. The French one could be what gives us a new Slut video.

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good deal, thanks.

and you make a good point on that... Which makes me wonder if they might have some sort of American airing about The Chuai Station... I mean, I can almost guarantee that Jamie isn't the "news watching type"- especially if it isn't in "American." And you gotta also wonder what kind of effect this has in Rob's p.o.v.- I mean, he's got to get word about this eventually right?

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rocksmars wrote:
What is the definitive spelling of Teddy's last name?


Hanssen.

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And you gotta also wonder what kind of effect this has in Rob's p.o.v.- I mean, he's got to get word about this eventually right?


That's why I'm pretty sure we won't get an American news report on this. I'm sure the marketers know about the U.S. medias reputation for concentrating on complete BS instead of news. Rob may not watch BBC, or some other English news service.

A friend of Jamie might find the French video and bring it to her attention. She might not speak French (or English) but if that IS a picture of Teddy, seeing the stations destruction and the lady holding the pic would click even in her dead brain.

She make a video, begging Teddy to contact her if he's still alive and asking forgivness for her previous temper tantrum vids, and maybe we get another important clue out of that.

Or maybe we get an English, AMERICAN broadcast tomorrow, and my theory is shot to hell.
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rocksmars wrote:
But why would she contact the media prior to this story?
What indication would she have that anything is wrong with her son?
Not hearing from a grown son working in an isolated location for a couple days hardly seems like reason to go to the media.

Just playing devil's advocate here. Tagruato's outgoing message acknowledges that something has happened and that families are being contacted, which by her account is not true. Tagruato also acknowledged on it's website last week that an incident had happened, so again it is conceivable that either she or someone she knows saw that.

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rocksmars wrote:
MrToasty wrote:
rocksmars wrote:
The thing that makes me think "Madame Leclerc" is a setup is the fact that the French even know who she is. No one else seems to know who is working for TAG, how did the news station find a family member so fast?

It's conceivable that she contacted the media to see if they had any information for her after being stonewalled by Tagruato.
MMe. Leclerc wrote:
" I don't know what hapenned, I don't know anything, I'm not alone in this situation. Having no news of your child is unbearable. No one informing us, I don't know if he's alive, if he's lost or if we are looking for him. The media have nothing to say about this. I don't know, it's total blackout here."


But why would she contact the media prior to this story?
What indication would she have that anything is wrong with her son?
Not hearing from a grown son working in an isolated location for a couple days hardly seems like reason to go to the media.


Wanted to coat-tail on your ideas for a minute.

Mme. LeClerc. Could we be seeing Le Bandit Vert in the flesh?
Bio suggests that whoever the Bandit is, they were a young horticulturist in approx. 1982. Now, figure college, a few grad courses, and 25 years later.... carry the 1..... puts Le Bandit right around early 50's?
And tell me I'm wrong, but did they ever mention once that the Bandit was a male? Could be showing that photo was a rally-cry for all available agents to go to a predisposed location, and await further orders.

[edit] she has an awful lot of photos of fauna around the house, doesn't she?

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And you gotta also wonder what kind of effect this has in Rob's p.o.v.- I mean, he's got to get word about this eventually right?


That's why I'm pretty sure we won't get an American news report on this. I'm sure the marketers know about the U.S. medias reputation for concentrating on complete BS instead of news. Rob may not watch BBC, or some other English news service.

A friend of Jamie might find the French video and bring it to her attention. She might not speak French (or English) but if that IS a picture of Teddy, seeing the stations destruction and the lady holding the pic would click even in her dead brain.

She make a video, begging Teddy to contact her if he's still alive and asking forgivness for her previous temper tantrum vids, and maybe we get another important clue out of that.

Or maybe we get an English, AMERICAN broadcast tomorrow, and my theory is shot to hell.


Even though our media has gone to shit here in the States, this story would most likely make all news stations OOG as it shows some very "weird" stuff and environmentalists would be all over it. Just my .02˘

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 		I tend to agree that Leclerc probably hadn't heard from her son for a while and thus decided to contact the media. Keep in mind how long ago Teddy's package was sent (not opened) and when the memos showed up in the Slusho shipments. He could have gone missing a long time ago now, well before this incident. The reporters she was trying to talk to might have brushed off her contacts until this catastrophe at Chuai occurred, and now they are digging her up to add to the total story.
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MrToasty wrote:
rocksmars wrote:
But why would she contact the media prior to this story?
What indication would she have that anything is wrong with her son?
Not hearing from a grown son working in an isolated location for a couple days hardly seems like reason to go to the media.

Just playing devil's advocate here. Tagruato's outgoing message acknowledges that something has happened and that families are being contacted, which by her account is not true. Tagruato also acknowledged on it's website last week that an incident had happened, so again it is conceivable that either she or someone she knows saw that.


I never thought TAG was contacting the families but she could have read about the altercation. But in that case isn't she rather calm? She contacts the media, instead of the government or the police for some odd reason, and is told that Chuai has just been destroyed. I think I would freak myself.
Hell I'm freaking now and this is just an ARG! Very Happy

But she does seem way to calm to me.
Also who is this us she talks about? She is in contact with other parents of TAG employees? Again already? The story just broke.

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 		She does seem strangely calm and detached.

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 		Someone a few pages back suggested that we try to lighten the photo of the son to see what is behind him and that maybe there was a clue there. Has anyone tried playing around with it to see if there is anything there?
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Hurley wrote:

Wanted to coat-tail on your ideas for a minute.

Mme. LeClerc. Could we be seeing Le Bandit Vert in the flesh?
Bio suggests that whoever the Bandit is, they were a young horticulturist in approx. 1982. Now, figure college, a few grad courses, and 25 years later.... carry the 1..... puts Le Bandit right around early 50's?
And tell me I'm wrong, but did they ever mention once that the Bandit was a male? Could be showing that photo was a rally-cry for all available agents to go to a predisposed location, and await further orders.

[edit] she has an awful lot of photos of fauna around the house, doesn't she?


It could be...there was a very famous 18th century French Naturalist named Georges Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon. He wrote an exhaustive work on natural history and was among the first to complain of the destruction of France's forests. If Le Bandit Vert was going to use a fake name Leclerc would make sense.

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carnus wrote:
Rescue boats on OIL rigs are typically of the type that look like mini-submarines. The inflatable raft leads me to believe that this is from the eco-terrorists


Just wanted to expand on this. Any stationary, or mobile rig, is required by maritime law to carry a set amount of rescue craft. The ones carnus brought up are made of a high-impact polymer, almost indestructible. They seat 12-15 persons, and are hermetically sealed. Average time to load crew is approx. 1:30, from alarm to door, and a minute or so for everyone to fasten their five point harness. Once the door is closed, they have a fast release controlled from the interior, so even if the platform did begin to submerge, the vessel could still be released at any time after the fact.
The little thing about the grill coming down on the zodiac?
Zodiacs are, as a rule, NOT allowed near platforms. Too small, and easily carried into the pylons and supports. Whoever brought it out there didn't belong there. The rescue craft sit atop and inside a grille of heavy steel, in the shape of a U, along the sides of the platform, one at N S E and W, and at all levels.

Very possible that some, if not most, of the crew made a safe release. But if a part of the grillwork were dragged off the platform with the escape craft, someone could have hit the release too late, and flung the grille wide and away as they rocketed to the surface. objects rocketing out of water at a high velocity may be closer than they appear.

[edit] for spelling. And yes, I've worked on the platforms. Trinidad is lovely this time of year. Smile

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 		with the given that she is so calm maybe she is an agent of tidowave and is the real janice we have been waiting on. she is so calm and collected and something in it has to be the thing we have been waiting on. .....on a side note i was looking for something that caught my eye. thank about the questions we all had. especially regarding the cheese and mits and chocolate and all the wierdness of slusho. i remember someone asking what was with the cheese and it hit me. they are subtle references to the movies code names. cheese , chocolate, and i believe hammer's mit was one i read a while back. just giving yall something to laugh at.

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JordLimb wrote:
Someone a few pages back suggested that we try to lighten the photo of the son to see what is behind him and that maybe there was a clue there. Has anyone tried playing around with it to see if there is anything there?


I did but I'm no good at it. It just looks like some ordinary buildings.

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