Monday, October 3, 2016

Huh?

Afternoon update: Twitter, as you might imagine, has some thoughts about this event. I'm going to post some of the interesting comments.










Mid-morning update: OK, I may be obsessing about something that has absolutely nothing to do with me, but really. How, exactly, did Kim Kardashian get herself unbound and unhandcuffed?

Original post:
Am I a terrible person if I say that the "Kim K was robbed" story sounds strange to me?  Here's how People.com is reporting it, at 9.00 Monday morning:

Five men in ski masks and police jackets were involved in the robbery about 3 a.m. local time Monday, Reuters reports.

Two men entered her room at No Address Hotel, bound Kardashian's hands and feet with tape then locked her in the bathroom before stealing a jewelry box worth $6.7 million in jewelry and a ring worth $4 million, police sources told La Parisien.

Her purse, two cell phones and 1,000 euros were also taken, police sources tell BFM TV

Kardashian was gagged and bound at her hands and feet, then handcuffed and held at gunpoint, according to E! News. After the men left with "all her jewelry," Kardashian "broke out of her bindings and got out."

"She begged for them to let her live and [said] she has babies at home. Then they wrapped her mouth in tape and put her in the bathtub," a source told E!. "She thought
they were for sure going to kill her." 

The men were able to gain access to Kardashian's private apartment after five men threatened the apartment building's concierge with a weapon, handcuffed him and forced him to open the private apartment, says The French Interior Ministry, according to CNN. Two of the men were able to gain entry and a gun was held to her head, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. Read the entire story here

This may just be a problem with the way the story is reported and written but I'm scratching my head. She was gagged, bound at her hands and feet, handcuffed and lying in the bathtub. At some point in all this she begged for her life, and at some point she had a gun pointed at her head. While she was lying in the bathtub? Before they gagged her? 

Then, after the bad guys left her hotel room (and how, exactly did they gain entrance to a major celebrity's room anyway?) she "broke out of her bindings and got out." Really? She somehow unbound her hands and feet and magically got out of the handcuffs? Really? 

Really? 

The only thing I've read about this situation is the story I pasted above. I'm sure there will be a tsunami of information coming out throughout the day and the details of what happened will be sorted out. For now, call me cynical but the story just doesn't make sense. 

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