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They Just Used Me!

icyfroth — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:00:41 GMT

After almost a decade, the girl who loved the ocean had forgotten what it was like.

Schapelle Corby stumbled across a Balinese beach and threw herself into the water, falling clumsily under the waves as they crashed around her.

It was a symbolic moment in the convicted drug smuggler's first days of freedom and a rare victory against the media circus that has camped outside the luxury villa where she has been bunkered for the past three weeks.

Corby's return to the ocean happened spontaneously in front of Ku De Ta, the popular Seminyak bar and restaurant which is a favourite with Australians, especially the media.

The 36-year-old - one of the most recognisable faces in Indonesia and Australia - snuck away from the photographers surrounding her Kuta hideout, had her first drink in a bar in nine years and then walked to the beach unnoticed by the crowd around her.

Two weeks earlier, as she was driven from Kerobokan prison, her covered face captured in images which went around the world, she told the bodyguard beside her that she felt like a crab, "trying to get out of a mud crab cage".

"I'm tired of people just... keeping me as a show pony," she said.

"I just started crying because I just feel so, I am just used, they just used me.

"People judge me and say I'm a really bad person, but look at this - this is just... that's wrong.

"There's a lot of people who are kind of against me getting out.“

Corby said she remembered the frenzy which surrounded her trial nine years ago. But she didn't remember the waves.

"She had forgotten how rough the surf could be," her sister, Mercedes, said last week of Schapelle's first moments back in the ocean.

"I think in her head she must have had clear water, enjoying slow breaststroke and instead she was tumbled over by waves."

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Re: They Just Used Me!

the*scarlet*pimpernel — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:04:47 GMT

awww Icy, I thought this was going to be about you.

I couldn't give a rats clacker if I never hear the name Schapelle again.

EDIT: because I can't type

EDITED AGAIN: because my grammer was worse than my typing

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joz*garage — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:07:05 GMT

she should of brought her boogie board

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pension.payment.plan — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:21:09 GMT

Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.

Re: They Just Used Me!

icyfroth — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:24:54 GMT

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
awww Icy, I thought this was going to be about you.

I couldn't give a rats clacker if I never hear the name Schapelle again.

EDIT: because I can't type
EDITED AGAIN: because my grammer was worse than my typing

Yeah, probably many ppl feel that way, Pimpy, but I feel sorry for her.

I think she was used by her family and by the Aus media.

Don't know whaffor your edits lol.

Re: They Just Used Me!

icyfroth — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:29:26 GMT

@pension.payment.plan wrote:
Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.

Pens, I'd like to see her just pick up the pieces of her life and slip away into obscurity. She's still young enough to find happiness and I wish the raving slavering media would just let her go.

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pension.payment.plan — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:32:39 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@pension.payment.plan wrote:
Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.

Pens, I'd like to see her just pick up the pieces of her life and slip away into obscurity. She's still young enough to find happiness and I wish the raving slavering media would just let her go.

Funny, I just made a comment on the other "Schapelle" thread to that effect. I think it's the media more interested in her than the public.

(although I've always found the Schapelle story intriguing - I thought the TV movie on her was okay but a bigger budget, perhaps theatrically released film would have done better justice to the story)

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catsnknots — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:33:16 GMT

What.. no one saw her yet they got these amazing photos????

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**meep** — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 07:14:33 GMT

thanks for posting that Icy. i was wondering how she was doing....this is the first time i've seen the pics. she looks happy.

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ca04 — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:17:38 GMT

No one but the resident camera crew 🙂

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lionrose.7 — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 10:37:51 GMT

I feel so sorry for her she could be any ones daughter, dont think it wont happen, you are lucky if you know a third of what your children do.

Guilty or innocent 9 years in a hell hole, mainly because they did not have enough money to bribe a few people, which is a well known practice over there.

I hope she can go on and put it behind her, but I dont think that place will ever leave her dreams.

I also cant understand how some people have No humanity for there fellow man and are so quick to cut others down and act holier them thou.

People who say they are Christians yet forget about forgiveness

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just_me_karen — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:50:59 GMT

You think she did the time because she couldn't bribe Indonesian authority? That sounds like something from the 1980s news, or the telegraph lol

I hope they breach her parole and make her do the time, just like other drug runners have to do. Then, maybe, she'll fall off he radar again.

Re: They Just Used Me!

colic2bullsgirlore — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:54:55 GMT

Meh...she's lucky IMO they could have executed her ............. list below..... Some on the partial list below were not so

lucky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians_imprisoned_or_executed_abroad

approximately 2 Australians a day are arrested overseas

http://www.smh.com.au/national/two-australians-a-day-arrested-abroad-20120107-1pp7s.html

AT LEAST two Australians a day are arrested for crimes somewhere in the world, double the number who were getting into trouble overseas a decade ago.

Figures from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade also reveal that the number of Australians in foreign prisons

reached record levels in 2010-2011, with 313 in jail.

In the same period, 1069 Australians were arrested for offences ranging from attempted murder and assault to kidnapping, theft and tax evasion. In comparison, 568 Australians were arrested in 2001, while 208 were imprisoned.

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colic2bullsgirlore — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:02:20 GMT

Deane Jones has been released while Halliwell still wallows in Gaol and most would not even recognize their names

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/04/1057179158262.html

The Bangkok Southern Criminal Court found Deane-Johns, 32, and her co-accused, Robert Halliwell, 57, guilty of possessing a total of 104 grams of heroin.

The pair, both addicts with a history of drug offences, were arrested in August 2000 after Deane-Johns tried to post a parcel of heroin back to Australia. Further quantities of drugs were later found hidden in each of their Bangkok residences.

But the court set aside prosecution arguments that they had conspired to traffic heroin to Australia. Under Thai law, traffickers found with more than 100 grams of heroin face a penalty of death by lethal injection.

In late August 2000, Halliwell drove Deane-Johns to Bangkok Central Post Office, where she posted a parcel later found to contain about 11 grams of heroin.

The pair were arrested a short time later by Thai narcotics agents who had been monitoring their movements for two months after receiving information from Australian Federal Police

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colic2bullsgirlore — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:27:51 GMT

If you want to feel sorry for somebody....feel sorry for this young lady who has yet to be charged

...... She must not appear so newsworthy as to attract "Schappelle style attention".......

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/12/13/murri-woman-arrested-and-jailed-bolivia

While Australia's media and public have been poring over every detail of Schapelle Corby's time in Bali, another Queensland woman has been sitting in a deadly foreign prison largely unnoticed.

Brisbane 24-year-old Alana Miles has been held in Bolivia’s Palmasola prison for the past 11 months under suspicion of drug trafficking.

The prison was the site of a riot in August last year that left 31 people dead.

The former university student and childcare worker was allegedly intercepted leaving Bolivia for Malaysia carrying two kilos of cocaine concealed in a backpack on March 18, 2013.
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Considered a flight risk, she has been held without charge ever since.

Alana's family said if she was charged and found guilty she could face a 25-year jail sentence.

Her sister Kylie Miles said Alana was naïve and had been set up by a friend she studied with online.

She said Alana had a sheltered adolescence in and out of hospital fighting Leukaemia, as well as suffering from diabetes.

“My sister would not even know what cocaine looked like except for in the movies,” Kylie said.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/family-of-brisbane-woman-jailed-in-bolivia-pleads-for-public-to-take-notice-20140221-3369u.html#ixzz2upppbnlW

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colic2bullsgirlore — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:35:00 GMT

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catsnknots — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:04:46 GMT

I feel for anyone that does time in one of their prisons... they are disgusting and third world. I think that 12 months is enough for the crime she did.

But that is the only thing she did that makes me feel sorry for her...