She could be any one of us.
They're bringing Mexico HERE.
TO YOUR HOUSE.
Posted on 10/04/2016 3:43:00 PM PDT by iowamark
Wendy Mueller was standing at the copper sink in her gorgeous, historic Leesburg, Va., home last Wednesday afternoon when the knife she was holding slipped and cut her thumb.
Then the phone rang.
It wasn’t a number she recognized, but distracted by the bleeding thumb, she answered it. Mom always answers the phone.
She heard screaming. It sounded like her 23-year-old daughter’s voice, begging for help.
Then an unfamiliar voice announced, “We have your daughter.” Wendy Mueller, who was the victim of a fake kidnapping scam last week, at her home in Leesburg. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
What followed next was five hours of hell.
Police call it a virtual kidnapping — an old scam that is having a renaissance across the country and particularly in the Washington region. The callers target affluent areas and find enough information online to make their ruse plausible.
Mueller, 59, had no idea that she was being played. She believed her daughter’s life was at stake and did everything she was instructed to do.
The kidnapper told Mueller to put her phone on speaker, get her purse and her phone charger, and get into the car.
“How much cash can you get right now?” he asked.
What is a daughter worth? Anything. Everything.
“$10,000,” she replied.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Just tell them they don’t know what they’re talking about since my daughter is right here.
PS: Oh and >click< phone hanging up. Or you can say “Great, you deal with her” and then hang up.
The FBI is too busy covering up for the Clinton gang and imprisoning uppity cowboys in Oregon to bother with piffling little crimes like this.
In the FerFAL blogs, he points this out as a major litmus test for a collapsed economy.
He has a lot to say on the subject.
Well stated : )
Tell the caller that you have a particular set of skills...
Taken?
” You have my daughter, well I am not paying any ransom and if you kill her or hurt her, the blood is on YOUR hands” CLICK
Did you ever read the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief”?
He has a lot to say on the subject.
Looking over his blog now. Don't know where to begin. Interesting stuff, though, and probably a more accurate portrayal of economic collapse than the complete "SHTF" totality that is often envisioned.
Many years ago, my family decided that if one of us was kidnapped, we should assume they had been murdered, so we should immediately contact the authorities. And second, if we had the opportunity, we should “murder the kidnappers back”.
This second part was based in the belief that nothing short of the death of the kidnappers would represent adequate compensation. But since the government is too lily-livered to administer justice, it was up to the people to do so as they saw fit.
No, but I’ll put it on my read list.
Oh, if you haven’t read his stuff - and Selco’s blog as well, then you’re in for a treat.
The FerFAL blog is the most sensible take on collapse that I have ever read.
During the 2000 Argentinian collapse, he says “(sic)You still went to work. You still watched television. It wasn’t Mad Max nor was it a zombie movie”(sic)
After reading all of his works - and I used to have his books too - it’s clear that the US is in the collapse zone. But since we are all expecting a fictional tale of Armageddon, no one really realizes it.
One of my favorites from him, again not verbatim, is “at 7.5% unemployment someone will kill you for a $1000. At 8% unemployment someone will kill you for a sandwich.”
He talks of “microkidnappings” where people, kids and adults alike, are taken in a van and held for an amount of money that people may have. Like, $100. The person is let go usually without harm but they will cut off fingertips if they feel it will get them more money.”
And these kidnappers do it every day.
He also talks about the point in which your driving changes. He writes about NEVER stopping for traffic lights, even in front of police. The police understand the risk. He also says that at a particular time (Which the US has already passed) that if someone steps out in front of your car to stop you, you hit the gas and hit them. And don’t stop.
Even when our currency collapses, you won’t see mohawked biker gangs roaming the streets while piles of garbage are lit ablaze with boomboxes over their shoulder. It’s not the final scene in Death Wish 3. You’ll see men in suits and ties - respectable looking people, with bloody knives in their belt waiting to get close to you. Black, white, brown or yellow race disappears as desperation kicks in.
And furthermore, the black, poor neighborhoods may even be safer. The poor are used to being poor. They are less likely to shoot you for diaper money because they’ve experienced diaper unaffordability before and they aren’t afraid. It’s the “newly poor” that pose the biggest danger. They have no idea how to deal with a cold, dark house or an empty tank of gas in their car.
She could be any one of us.
They're bringing Mexico HERE.
TO YOUR HOUSE.
I grew up fairly poor. Light bulbs hanging from the center
of the ceiling. Daddy drawing us a bucket of water from the
well & digging our outdoor toilet and building the little
house to set over it. Washed up in a pan on a side table in
water dipped from the bucket. Never stunk as far as I knew.
Momma washed in an old ringer washing machine, so we were
clean. People weren’t such snowflakes back then. Parents
worked and paid for my school lunches. I rode my bike to
the little corner grocery for an 8 oz. cold drink and a
candy bar or cookies. - We did have a window fan in the
summer; but heated with a coal stove in winter.
“I grew up fairly poor”
Then you are totally unprepared for the things that most people will do. Because you’re not in their boat.
A friend of mine does armored truck transport in Reno. He recounts that biggest threat there is a white guy in a suit. He’ll wait in a bush and hit you over the head with a 2x4 because he lost at the tables. The poorer neighborhoods there are much safer.
My advice: “People will hide in a bush, jump you and kill you with a pipe for your $20. How will they know you have $20? Because you’re not hiding in a bush with a pipe in your hand.”
One of those SVU murder shows did an episode on this maybe ten years ago already. The crooks were Russians in that episode.
She kept asking to talk to her daughter.
“They kept promising me: ‘As soon as you send the last one, you will talk to her,’ ” she said.
Should have suspected right then it was a scam, but people don’t think that logically when their emotions take over.
Thanks for taking the time with your well-written post. Assuming it is an accurate summary, I look forward to spending some time getting to know those blogs.
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