Yikes – take a look at this story from Britain of the lengths even people in their 70s are sinking to. This made me think of that man in Ramona that blew up his house in the fancy country club (he’s on trial now b/c someone at the property died, right?)
First picture of kidnap gang pensioner who abducted financial adviser after he lost £2m savings
24th June 2009
Pensioners battered a financial adviser with Zimmer frames before kidnapping and torturing him for losing £2million of their savings.
James Amburn, 56, was ambushed outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, bound with masking tape and bundled into a car boot.
‘It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath,’ said Mr Amburn, who was driven to the Bavarian lakeside home of one of the gang.
Another couple, retired doctors, joined the kidnappers
‘The fear of death was indescribable,’ he said. Mr Amburn was rescued when he sent a fax to release funds from a Swiss bank and scribbled a message on it for the receiver to call police.’
Mr Arnburn, 56, described how two of his kidnappers, identified only as Roland K, 74, and Willy D, 60, hit him with a Zimmer frame outside his home in Speyer, west Germany before binding him with duct tape.
The article goes on to describe how the man tried to escape but they caught him again, how he was finally rescued…
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