MacCruiskeen wrote:I do find it obvious that the Norwegian police (and air force, and medical and emergency services) were grotesquely, unconscionably slow in responding to an obvious ongoing mass murder, even though the country was under attack and they were all on high alert very close to the scene of the crime. You, by contrast, are fine with that, unlike the Norwegians and tourists who were even closer to the scene of the crime, and indeed dodging bullets while rescuing children; they too were furious, and baffled. Maybe they too should join the numerologists.
My opinion on this is that the police were, at worst, twenty minutes slower than could be reasonably called the absolute optimum response.
I also find it incomprehensible that the Norwegian police initially overestimated the number of dead bodies on that tiny island by sixteen (in figures:16). You claim, at least implicitly, to find that bizarre brainfart (or whatever it was) perfectly comprehensible, although you haven't yet deigned to share your superior understanding with me or anyone else on the board.
It has been noted in the press over and again that the individuals leaving the island were avoiding police at all costs due to the killer's ruse, and that the original victims may have included missing persons. I see no actual benefit to some proposed conspiracy that accrues to the conspirators by having the police lower the number of victims by sixteen.
MacCruiskeen wrote:By the time the police finally did arrive, local civilians -- and tourists from a campsite, including a German bloke and two Finnish lesbians -- had already gone out in boats and rescued about 250 kids from the water, and even from the island of Utoya itself. Some of those hardy lake-dwellers made four or five rescue trips in their boats, while the belated cops claimed not to be able to find a boat on the lakeside at all.
Because the more boats there are on the water, naturally the more boats you'll find at the shore.
The most dangerous traps are the ones you set for yourself. - Phillip Marlowe