Re: The family in the cellar

Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch declared:
>> netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> What I don't get is the _mother_.  There's no way she lived there
>>> all these years and did not know.

>> Not everyone is a snoop.  Presumably she trusted her son and respected
>> his privacy.

> It wasn't her son -- it was her husband, who had her daughter
> chained up in the basement.

My point still stands.

> If your daughter disappears and a bunch of children, who aren't
> yours, start to turn up around the house, you have reason to snoop,
> no matter how much you respect privacy.

Not if I trusted my spouse.  How likely, a priori, was it that someone
had been kept prisoner in a secret basement room for 24 years?  Is
that really something you would have naturally suspected?
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