Wednesday, September 7, 2016

yes, a story, but what story?

Usually, of course, news stories are all about what is known -- or, more frequently of late, what is surmised. Here is a story that is content to be a true story ... one positively riddled with the unknowns of it all.
A family of five disappeared on a tech-free road-trip only to turn up one by one after a week-long odyssey of more than 1,600km (995 miles), which ended with a police investigation and two of them in psychiatric care. This was a missing person mystery that held Australia spellbound, writes Trevor Marshallsea.
The Tromp family were by all accounts a normal, hard-working household.
Mark Tromp, 51, and wife Jacoba, 53, had established a successful redcurrant farm and earth-moving business at their property in Silvan, on the outskirts of the Victorian capital, Melbourne.
But with little warning, on Monday 29 August they and their three adult children - Riana, 29, Mitchell, 25, and Ella 22 - got into a car and headed north.

2 comments:

  1. Very dramatic, were they really crazy? or just having fun? What brought their adult children to cosign the story that justified their flight?

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  2. Abandon ignorance, do wisdom, purify the breath.

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