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Kidnapping in the US

Discussion in 'General' started by ChemGuy, Sep 3, 2022.

  1. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Turkey? Saw the set up from the bar tender and smelled the “chemicals” in the drink. Dumped it on the floor as I pretended to drink it and rushed to my room (pretending to have the room swirl and go to the bathroom). Piled up the furniture in front of the door and when they came to my room (total setup from jump street) threatened them with the illegal sidearm I may or may not have had. ;-). Might have been larger than a sidearm IF I had something.

    brazil? Typical set up there. Three guys. . . Saw it, may have “assaulted” one person and hauled ass to my hotel (with armed guards outside).

    I might be a bit crazy but I’m not stupid.
     
  2. Chino52405

    Chino52405 Well-Known Member

    My ex wife was a marathon runner and would regularly be out in Chicago at wee hours to run before commuting. I don't think there's anything fishy about the running, just risky.
     
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  3. Motofun352

    Motofun352 Well-Known Member

    When I was in Caracas, Ve we always had armed drivers to take us around. One time a group of eight of us decided to take a short walk through the city to a local hotel for a drink....When our host found out about it he highly recommended we not do that again. hat was in 2008 and things were bad even back then.
     
  4. tony 340

    tony 340 Well-Known Member

    My buddy when he goes to Mexico his company has full time armed guard for him, picks him up at airport , and stays at armed guard hotel. He's had to sleep at the factory a few times
     
  5. Yzasserina

    Yzasserina sound it out

    Same. I routinely ran around Central Park in NYC at 5 am. 6 mile loop, the police are out there. When Fred went to school in Orlando, I was out there at 5 am as well, training for a marathon and to beat the humidity. And the alligators. You definitely have your head on a swivel in that State, lol.
     
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  6. bergs

    bergs Well-Known Member

    Just read this morning there was an arrest made on one person who is being charged with the kidnapping.

    Seems he is not cooperating with authorities in regards to the missing woman.
     
  7. tiggen

    tiggen Things are lookin' up.

    I taught her brother, and we share the same last name (her maiden name). Looks like her grandfather and my grandfather may have been cousins. Unfortunately,
    I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time, and perhaps now is the right time: what do you do for a living anyway?

    Perhaps I've missed it along the way...
     
  8. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Turkey I was flying home from a site survey in a country you could really only get to from there. I worked for a GC that did very specialized construction and no one else would go. That trip, I could write stories about for days. :D

    Brazil was a sales trip.
     
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  9. A. Barrister

    A. Barrister Well-Known Member

    Yep. The few times that I went to Mexico for work (Toluca), we were picked up and chauffeured everywhere. They didn't want us going anywhere without escorts.

    Even the strip clubs. :D
     
  10. Yzasserina

    Yzasserina sound it out

    Same. Caracas. Armored guards everywhere. Airport bribe on the way out. Whatever. I expensed it.
     
  11. noles19

    noles19 Well-Known Member

    Seems like having armored guards is more and more common my uncle was telling me his company has been paying for them for him the last couple years in places like India etc.he works for a company that finds deleted things like emails.
     
  12. 10-15

    10-15 Well-Known Member

  13. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    I know, this sucks so much. I used to leave the windows open in the house when going to work. As of 3-5 years ago, my wife doesn’t want me to do that anymore, because of things like this.
     
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  14. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    "Abston was previously convicted in 2000 of especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery in Shelby County, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC). His 24-year sentence expired in November 2020 and he was released, they said. "

    Out less than a year before he's charged with the same type of kidnapping?

    Time for the lead judge.
     
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  15. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Okay, I was asked in a PM about the three guy set up. You are walking up the street and one guy is walking towards you medium fast. Second guy is across the street, walking about 10 to 20 meters behind dude one. Third dude is behind you but further back but coming up quickly.
    Dude one, will ask you for a light for his smoke or just come in hot.
    Don’t get close enough to be asked for a light because dude three is coming in.

    brazil you can pick up and hide a piece of rebar with a small chunk of concrete (better than just rebar) almost anywhere.
     
  16. CBRRRRR999

    CBRRRRR999 Well-Known Member

    I must have been obviously worthless, I walked around drunk and stupid all around the worlds shittiest ports for years before I quit drinking. Now I just walk around stupid.
    One guy did try to mug about 6 of us in southeast Chicago with a little .25 or .32 peashooter, a native Chicagoan among us walked right at him and told him to make a hasty exit or the ones he didn't shoot would do unmentionable things to him before and after he died from the beating he was about to get, again drunk and stupid.
     
  17. ClemsonsR6

    ClemsonsR6 Well-Known Member

  18. Gino230

    Gino230 Well-Known Member

    Article says the (alleged) kidnapper is 38 and just finished a 24 year sentence in 2020- convicted in 2000. So he was 16 when convicted last time? Was probably 14 when he did the first crime? WTF?
     
  19. RichB

    RichB Well-Known Member

    Circumstances suggest perp had no more complex motive than that.
     
  20. SPL170db

    SPL170db Trackday winner

    I'd like to hope that the recent Supreme Court Bruen decision will have an organic effect on this going down as time goes on.....I guess we'll see.
     
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