This makes me wonder how many cell phones that News Corp was able to hack into last week?

That mom is crazy.

Julie: We hope we will be picked up by someone soon. Can they not catch him soon?!
Mum: The anti-terrorism unit is there and they are working on catching him.
Julie: OK.
Mum: Should we try to get the flight home tomorrow?
Julie: I have no time to think about that now.

[Because, Mum, I'm trying to avoid getting my head blown off by a maniac.]

@2 that was exactly my reaction. Even aside from the braindead timing, don't ask your kid if you should come home from vacation (or whatever.) Just do it!

i like that the kid took the time to text shit-scared instead of just scared. breviek needs to do time in stocks in central oslo.

The tension was palpable...

@4 has it, the family is from northern Norway and was trying to arrange both a possible flight home or that her daughter stay with a grandfather there. In the end a special flight was chartered for survivors from the northern regions.

I also wouldn't be so hard on the mother. More than mere confirmation of a flight she almost certainly wanted confirmation, any confirmation, that her daughter was alive. Imagine watching the news about a murderous rampage on TV, including later on helicopter shots of bodies on the shore while the killer wasn't yet captured, knowing all the while that your own child is in the frigid water, one step away from becoming one of those bodies. Making fun of someone in that situation strikes me as downright cruel.

@7 I was channeling the frustration I saw in the kid's text. Sorry to have offended you.

@8 my guess is that the kid probably didn't have room for much more than terror in her head, but assuming she was frustrated for a moment, I'm happy for her that she got an instant of a comparatively less awful emotion. Sorry for the misinterpretation.

i hope they throw him in prison among the immigrants he so despises.