He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn’t look as hard as they otherwise would.
Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He was only 200 meters from home and it took them twenty six years to find him? I just looked up what a “sheep fold” was and it’s just a simple sheep pen.
This story can’t be real.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s not what confuses me, the dude didn’t try to escape for 26 years even though he was only being held in a sheep pasture?
Deebster@programming.dev 1 month ago
There’s the idiom “return to the fold” which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don’t think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Did you read the article? He disappeared during a war.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So? He was 200 meters (650 feet) away from home in a sheep pen for twenty six years.
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The people who lived in the same building as Dahmer who had no idea he was killing, dismembering, and even eating his victims in the same building as him.
Or see the horrific Josef Fritzl incident, where he managed to hide his daughter in IIRC a secret room in his basement, with his wife convinced she had ran away. She gave birth down there six times and her mom, just above her head, was completely unaware.
moistclump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What the actual fuck
Running_Nose@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I read the whole Wikipedia entry.
What the actual fucking fuck.