The Chandler kidnapping - something odd?

Rolfe- I'm glad I'm not the only one to ask this question. I watched the BBC report of the release yesterday at the GF's place. My immediate reaction was "How has a woman that age managed to keep her hair dyed under these circumstances?"
Like you, I felt something didn't just quite add up.
 
Well, I don't know what doesn't add up. My original thought, that perhaps the pictures we were seeing in February weren't as recent as we were being led to believe, was obviously wrong.

The whole story is too well-attested to be any sort of fake. (And even if you were going to stage something that bizarre, the first thing you'd do would be to avoid cutting or colouring your hair, I'd have thought.) So I think there has to be a banal explanation involving a rare redhead who hasn't gone salt-and-pepper, and a pair of scissors.

It's still odd, though. How did she do the back so neat?

Rolfe.
 
As yacht people, they probably are used to cutting each other's hair.
I was just surprised by the colour. I know a few redheads that age, but they have all gone a much lighter russet as grey has started to accumulate.

I'm sure there's a trivial explanation, but it clearly seemed odd to both of us - and I'm not known for noticing such things uless it's extremely obvious. The GF spends 2 hours at the hairdresser and I don't notice.
 
My original query was regarding the length of both their hair - his is extremely short in all the photos published. This was at the time when it was being reported that they were being kept separately and hadn't had any contact with each other for quite some time.

I suppose it's hard to know how often redheads keep that vibrant colour into their fifties - we'd just assume it had had a little help from its friends at Laboratoire Garnier, and discreetly not mention it!

Rolfe.
 
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No. He meant gay. As in "gay hairdressers," you see?
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Oh, my word. I see. You mean, the love that dare not speak its name? Chaps who endulge in Socratic love, kind of thing - but cut hair too. My mother told me about fellows like that.
 
I'm married to a redhead. Not a gray hair at 60. The original colour is slightly faded, but not much.

As for the lenght, I suppose they either cut their own hair (yachtspeople know how to do that), or had haircuts. These people were kidnapped for money. Generally, such kidnappers try to keep their victims in reasonable shape. After all, they are their assets.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
As for the lenght, I suppose they either cut their own hair (yachtspeople know how to do that), or had haircuts. These people were kidnapped for money. Generally, such kidnappers try to keep their victims in reasonable shape. After all, they are their assets.
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I think it was this report that made me wonder about the whole thing.

During the examination, AFP reported, Mrs Chandler said: "Please help us, these people are not treating us well."
The surgeon, Mohamed Helmi Hangul, said she was in a poor state of mental and physical health.
"She is sick, she is very anxious, she suffers from insomnia," Mr Hangul told AFP.
"But I think she's mainly mentally unwell, it seems. She's very confused, she's always asking about her husband - 'Where's my husband, where's my husband?' - and she seems completely disorientated," he added.
The couple have been separated by their captors and are being held apart from each other in rugged areas between the coastal village of Elhur and the small town of Amara, further inland, AFP said.
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Elsewhere in the report it said they were being treated "very cruelly", and there were stories of beatings. It just didn't add up to coiffure in my estimation.

I don't really think there's anything peculiar going on. It's just an anomaly, and anomalies are interesting.

Rolfe.
 
well on the hair color thing...sometimes you can maintain your hair color until well into old age. My grandfather's side of the family had ridiculously long lasting hair color. My dad is in his mid 60s and his hair is still mostly black with just a hint of gray. My grandfather wasn't totally gray until he was in his 70s. Even now, he's almost 90, and his hair is thick and steel gray, not white and whispy like most people his age would be.

My mother also didn't start going gray until her late 40s, and even though she's almost 60, her hair has gray streaks but is still mostly brown.

What sucked is that my grandmothers' family goes prematurely gray, and she's the one whose genes I inherited. I started going gray as a teenager...before either of my middle aged parents, even though dad was in his 50s by then.

but hey- at least I wasn't kidnapped by pirates!
 
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Rolfe said:
I think it was this report that made me wonder about the whole thing.




Elsewhere in the report it said they were being treated "very cruelly", and there were stories of beatings. It just didn't add up to coiffure in my estimation.

I don't really think there's anything peculiar going on. It's just an anomaly, and anomalies are interesting.

Rolfe.
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Maybe. OTOH, as assets, the kidnappers needed them to look reasonably hale on photos, so....

There could also be a difference between daily wardens, who are probably low-ranking, and the overall treatment. In their situation, it won't take that much to feel cruelly treated; the separation alone would prey hard on their nerves. I'm not saying they exaggerated, just that their stamina against various abuse will have been low.

Hans
 
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