Tr*mp Drama in Oz

[mongers]

The paranoia is getting to the Tromps in Australia; odd story, maybe they were preppers?

Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong
7 September 2016

A family of five disappeared on a tech-free road-trip only to turn up one by one after a week-long odyssey of more than 1,600km (995 miles), which ended with a police investigation and two of them in psychiatric care. This was a missing person mystery that held Australia spellbound, writes Trevor Marshallsea.

The Tromp family were by all accounts a normal, hard-working household.

Mark Tromp, 51, and wife Jacoba, 53, had established a successful redcurrant farm and earth-moving business at their property in Silvan, on the outskirts of the Victorian capital, Melbourne.

But with little warning, on Monday 29 August they and their three adult children - Riana, 29, Mitchell, 25, and Ella 22 - got into a car and headed north.

They didn't just leave their family farm, they had fled.

Police, later called to the home to investigate, found passports, credit cards and mobile phones had been left behind. This was to be a cash-only, "off the grid" road trip, with no way of being followed.

It was later revealed Mark and Jacoba had been suffering increasing signs of stress and paranoia. According to media reports, at least one of them had become convinced someone was out to kill them, and take their money.

The only phone not left behind belonged to Mitchell. He appeared to be the only one in the family not swept up in the belief that they were in danger.

He later said he had gone along to ensure they would all be safe, but that his parents became increasingly delusional and hard to tolerate.

Some 30km away from home, they made him throw his phone out of the car window. They were apparently convinced it was being used to track them.

The family drove, in Ella's silver Peugeot SUV, through that first day and night until reaching the New South Wales town of Bathurst, 800km away, to the west of Sydney. It was there at 07:00 on Tuesday that Mitchell left the family.
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Full story here, worth a read;
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37293494

[The Brain]

Better safe than sorry.

[lustindarkness]

So,  when does the "based on real events" movie come out?

[mongers]

So,  when does the "based on real events" movie come out?

It would make sense for them to do it, wouldn't it.

Hell, maybe they set it up for some such 15 minutes in the spotlight gig?

[Archy]

I think they just started their yearly trek to their breeding grounds