Corrie Mckeague: Reward To Find Missing Airman Doubles

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-42369608

Doubled from £50k to £100K.

[Old_Geezer]

If £50k didn't encourage I'm unconvinced increasing it would have much effect. Who would be holding out for more ?

[mikey4444]

OG....I am not convinced that foul play has taken place here, but there is still a small chance that it has.

£100k is a lot of money, and maybe it will help....its got to be worth a try.

[EDDIE51]

naomi , the lorry driver does not hand over cash to go and tip a load.They have ANPR cameras that record the number plate and send a bill to the operating company.A lorry can not use the tip unless it has been registered with the tip operator, it is NOT like your public tip where you can just drive in. Drivers are under strict instructions not to go to the tip until they have a full load. It would have cost the same to tip 11Kg as to tip 100 Kg.
My 1000 + Kg was a reference to the total weight of the vehicle and load not the weight of the load alone. Each lorries unladen weight is recorded on the tip site record so as soon as the ANPR camera reads the number plate it knows the weight of waste to be tipped as the lorry drives over a weighbridge as its number plate is read.
The police are very well aware of this and they made a serious mistake in not immediately realising that a figure of 11 Kg of waste was impossible.

[Baldric]

///My 1000 + Kg was a reference to the total weight of the vehicle and load not the weight of the load alone///

Really?

///it turned out that the correct weight was over 1000 Kg of waste///

[EDDIE51]

baldric Ok I should have said total weight was over 1000Kg , but it does not change the point of the argument that the police were incompetent.

[mikey4444]

Well said Eddie !

[naomi24]

Eddie, what on earth are you waffling about? I didn't mention drivers paying to tip loads. You did.

[EDDIE51]

naomi, I find your posts and queries of others are increasingly obtuse and pointless.
My point is that the police were incompetent at best to just accept that a lorry would go to the tip and pay the entry fee just to tip 11Kg of waste. All this is beside the point, which is to try to come up with a viable theory of what could have happened.
I still think that by far the most likely explanation is that, finding himself inside a bin lorry Corrie got out as soon as it stopped moving, which was at Barton Mills. He then wandered off to try to find help , but being unsure of where he was and still disorientated he fell into one of the many drainage ditches in the area and drowned. I suspect he is still there, but short of getting 100s of people together to search a huge area of open countryside he is likely to remain there , possibly for decades.
Thetford forest where you suggested he may be lost is a good few miles ( 10 miles at least) to the North of Barton Mills.

[mikey4444]

The more I think about it, the more I think that you have the most probable answer Eddie....it seems to tick most, if not all of the boxes.

Good post !

[EDDIE51]

Thanks mikey. It often works out that the most likely theory is the correct one, and I have thought that is the most likely explanation since I first heard of the story. It's almost personal to me, as though I have never met Corrie, I know the entire area well, from the pubs he was drinking in to Barton Mills, the Landfill site and Thetford forest beyond it.

[mikey4444]

Well deserved BA Eddie !

Its the terrible poignancy of this whole affair that has got to me over the last year or so. This young lad had everything to live for, and then this happens.

The on going not-knowing would destroy me I think......my heart goes out to his family, especially his poor Mum.

[Jackdaw33]

I think Eddie is probably correct inasmuch as the simplest solution often turns out to be the correct one. The philosophical term for this, I believe, is Occam's razor.

[mikey4444]

Jack....we appear to agree on this point, at least !

[EDDIE51]

^ Yes ,Occam's razor is also applicable in reports of things like UFO's Alien visitation, Proofs of a Flat Earth, that the Moon landings never happened and 9/11 was organised by the CIA.

[Islay]

Too much time and money being put into this case imo.

[Jackdaw33]

I tend to agree. The poor guy is clearly dead, let him rest, wherever he may be.

[EDDIE51]

^ Interesting that this case gets that kind of response when contrasted against the AB view on the Madeline Mccann case. Both have police incompetence as a root cause.

[Islay]

I wonder if so much is being put into this because his mother is a copper and obviously unwilling to let it go

[EDDIE51]

^ That was to Islay.

[mikey4444]

If this had been my son, kid brother, or nephew, I'm not sure that I would want to let matters go.