Missing lad in Tenerife

[airbusA346]

g4ry13 said:

Can't help but think it smells a bit fraudulent / opportunistic.

He's probably playing PS5 somewhere and making a nice little earner.

Nice little earner for her, if he's dead too.

[g4ry13]

airbusA346 said:

g4ry13 said:

Can't help but think it smells a bit fraudulent / opportunistic.

He's probably playing PS5 somewhere and making a nice little earner.

Nice little earner for her, if he's dead too.

In that case, the longer they don't find a body the better for her.

[wc98]

phil-sti said:

So his family went to ibiza to do him in rather than just do him locally and dump him on the moors?

Story is lad has gone on holiday to Tenerife, followed his knob and ended up miles from where he should be, left the house thinking he can walk home and has come a cropper.

This is nothing more than a lad getting smashed off his head and making stupid choices.

I agree that's the likely outcome but it won't come as a surprise if it turns out to be some version of what i wrote.

[madbadger]

number2 said:

phil-sti said:

wc98 said:

I strongly suspect when this is all over the original story could be a load of rubbish. Given the type of people he appears to associate with and the drug thing it wouldn't surprise me if there's been some retaliation from the macheted blokes mates/family etc. I might be wrong but looking at all the known info there is a better than average chance there's a lot more to this than someone getting lost trying to walk home from a party.

So his family went to ibiza to do him in rather than just do him locally and dump him on the moors?

Story is lad has gone on holiday to Tenerife, followed his knob and ended up miles from where he should be, left the house thinking he can walk home and has come a cropper.

This is nothing more than a lad getting smashed off his head and making stupid choices.

Highly likely.

Followed his nose rather than his nob I imagine.

It's a nothing-burger.

He was at a rave. Surely there were drugs there and he wouldn't need to go off at 3 am with two random blokes to a house an hor away.

[thatsprettyshady]

There’s a video floating about of him completely off his head at this rave - I expect he’s gone off for some afters and decided to go home afterwards but forgot that it’s a semi arid desert and not rainy Burnley.

Conspiracy theories are funny though

Edited by thatsprettyshady on Friday 21st June 15:08

[TameRacingDriver]

I've just seen this article surface on reddit about this piece of st. Him and his 7 mates attacked another lad with machetes and golf clubs. Karma is a bh huh?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/e...

[phil-sti]

madbadger said:

number2 said:

phil-sti said:

wc98 said:

I strongly suspect when this is all over the original story could be a load of rubbish. Given the type of people he appears to associate with and the drug thing it wouldn't surprise me if there's been some retaliation from the macheted blokes mates/family etc. I might be wrong but looking at all the known info there is a better than average chance there's a lot more to this than someone getting lost trying to walk home from a party.

So his family went to ibiza to do him in rather than just do him locally and dump him on the moors?

Story is lad has gone on holiday to Tenerife, followed his knob and ended up miles from where he should be, left the house thinking he can walk home and has come a cropper.

This is nothing more than a lad getting smashed off his head and making stupid choices.

Highly likely.

Followed his nose rather than his nob I imagine.

It's a nothing-burger.

He was at a rave. Surely there were drugs there and he wouldn't need to go off at 3 am with two random blokes to a house an hor away.

have you ever been to a rave and got off your nut? back in the 90's i used to end up miles away from home, I once ended up in Pontefract when I went out in Burnley

[mac96]

Leptons said:

ScotHill said:

eldar said:

Learning from experience, now. Tying up a lot of police and public resources again, but thats ok, he's just a teenage lad, excuses everything.

I don't think people are excusing anything, more understanding what 19 year olds are like, the same way that a lot of 19 year olds tie up police and public resources by crashing their cars more often then middle aged men on internet forums.

Guaranteed that most people on here did something dumb when they were 19 that could easily have resulted in much more serious consequences, but they got away with it due to chance.

Not on here, this is PistonHeads, home of the Holier than thou dhead!

At a similar age, I drove a carload of mates to walk up Moel Siabod in North Wales, in winter, in the snow, wearing trainers, jeans T shirts and maybe a plastic mac. No other kit, we hadn't even told anyone where we were (we couldn't, we were supposed to be at school).
Cold rather than hot, but just as stupid. Happily everyone came back. Perhaps we were unusually stupid, but I don't think so.

[Its Just Adz]

Local news seem to be doing a post about him every hour, none with any new information.
I fear they are going to do the next "Nicola Bulley" and hound his family.

[andyeds1234]

If a young chap were to try their hand at dealing, in one of the locations controlled by some naughty people, the consequences could be dire, and Tenerife certainly has some naughty people.

[Pincher]

airbusA346 said:

g4ry13 said:

The GoFundMe is over £23k now. Do people actually know what they're donating for when they go to these pages?

It's apparently a rescue fund but there have been helicopters and drones thrown at the search so i'm not sure lack of funds is an issue.

Over £24k now... Crazy!

£24k goes a long way to setting up a new identity and life somewhere

[Gareth79]

A local saw him around 8am and he asked about the bus, she told him the next one was at 10am, and then saw him later walking quickly.

https://news.sky.com/story/jay-slater-living-night...

My guess is he had no real idea how long it takes to walk a distance, and didn't think of hitching a lift etc, maybe just wanted/needed to leave the area?

Edited by Gareth79 on Friday 21st June 17:31

[heisthegaffer]

I remember being in Cyprus with no money thinking I could walk from Agia napa back to Larnaca.

[Slowboathome]

mikey_b said:

eldar said:

Leptons said:

eldar said:

Indicated poor organisational ability.

What so that’s your benchmark of someone having poor organisational ability. Phone battery going flat in the middle of nowhere?

Going ill prepared into the middle of nowhere - no phone, water, indication your destination, sun protection. Seems less than organised to me. Kind of taking part in a gunfight armed with a banana

He'd spent the previous few hours (or more) at a rave. FFS, he's a teenager on a lads holiday, not a special forces soldier going behind enemy lines.

[No ideas for a name]

Don't know if Sky are just being really stupid, but they have published the people involved's mobile numbers (in their link to X).

https://news.sky.com/story/jay-slater-former-coron...

[croyde]

heisthegaffer said:

I remember being in Cyprus with no money thinking I could walk from Agia napa back to Larnaca.

After a night out in Puerto del Carmen, my mates had to drag me back to the beach after I had convinced myself that I could get to Africa on a plastic sunbed.

[Disastrous]

Slowboathome said:

mikey_b said:

eldar said:

Leptons said:

eldar said:

Indicated poor organisational ability.

What so that’s your benchmark of someone having poor organisational ability. Phone battery going flat in the middle of nowhere?

Going ill prepared into the middle of nowhere - no phone, water, indication your destination, sun protection. Seems less than organised to me. Kind of taking part in a gunfight armed with a banana

He'd spent the previous few hours (or more) at a rave. FFS, he's a teenager on a lads holiday, not a special forces soldier going behind enemy lines.

“Jesus Christ. That’s Jason Bourne!”

[Pickled Piper]

He's not your average hapless youngster. He's got a previous conviction for attacking someone with a machete.

Sounds like a complete bell end.

[Don Roque]

The entire trajectory of this story changed early on when it emerged that he is a violent criminal. I don't expect he'll be found alive, either.

[Llandudno]

The Facebook groups on this are absolutely batst.