[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I can see how it happens to be fair - people decide they've had too much or whatever and go off home without telling anyone... You just assume they've randomly buggered off or run into other friends or whatever. Then say the next day is a Sunday and you still don't hear from them - you just think epic hangover. Then it's Monday and everyone is back to classes and not really thinking about it any more, if none of the friends that were there were on her course they just wouldn't have any idea she still wasn't around.

Even in halls it can be ships passing in the night - I remember one weekend, I was wasted on the Friday night and wandered back to halls. just couldn't be bothered doing anything with anyone for the rest of the weekend, so I pretty much turned off my phone and camped out in my room watching DVD box sets. I was coming and going to the shops etc. And even using the communal kitchen but didn't happen to see anyone. On the Monday people asked if I'd had a good weekend back home! Everyone just assumed I'd gone to my dads for the weekend. Technically, I could easily have been dead in my room, or never made it home at all that Friday night.

Rambling a bit but, just saying, I can see how something like this could happen... People at Uni especially live such "individual" lives and just sort of flit about like that. Maybe this does suggest that people should be looking out for each other more, though.

Then again, I guess it wouldn't have changed the outcome here. Even if they had realised within half an hour that something was wrong, it would have been too late.

But they walked across the bridge with her and when CCTV picked them up on the other side she was gone, its not like she left the Club half an hour before them.