translation: とか and 結構


> 何年か前の話ですが、 ディズニーランドで子供がトイレに入って、出てくるのを外で待ってると、
> トイレ内で髪を染められ、服も着替えさせられて子供が誘拐された、ディズニーランドでは 出入り口を全て封鎖して、犯人が見つかった **とか** 、
> そのまま子供がいなくなっちゃった **とか** 結構聞きましたが、 その話本当ですか？

Hello, again, I'm translating colloquial japanese. Why did the author of this
post use とか? Why didn't he use て? Is there a special connection between the
two verbs 見つかった andいなくなっちゃった? I don't understand whether they are connected to
結構聞きました or not (there's a space in the original text before 結構). Also, how can
I translate 結構 here?




`結構` is used here in sense 4 [from
EDICT](http://jisho.org/word/%E7%B5%90%E6%A7%8B):

>   4. quite; reasonably; fairly; tolerably
>

`とか` could be roughly translated as "things like". On the more analytic level,
it is a combination of the quoting `と` and `か`. I.e., here the author is
quoting the things they've heard:

> I've heard plenty of stories like "they found the culprit" or "The child
> just disappeared like that", but is [any of them] true?

`て` could have been used if it was describing the actual sequence of events,
but since here it's hearsay it doesn't really work. Also, it seems that "they
found the culprit" and "The child just disappeared like that" are two
conflicting storylines and not sequential events, so `て` doesn't work here.




`結構` is used here in sense 4 [from
EDICT](http://jisho.org/word/%E7%B5%90%E6%A7%8B):

>   4. quite; reasonably; fairly; tolerably
>

`とか` could be roughly translated as "things like". On the more analytic level,
it is a combination of the quoting `と` and `か`. I.e., here the author is
quoting the things they've heard:

> I've heard plenty of stories like "they found the culprit" or "The child
> just disappeared like that", but is [any of them] true?

`て` could have been used if it was describing the actual sequence of events,
but since here it's hearsay it doesn't really work. Also, it seems that "they
found the culprit" and "The child just disappeared like that" are two
conflicting storylines and not sequential events, so `て` doesn't work here.

