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BREAKING: Venezuela: Urbina's Mother Rescued Unharmed After Shootout With Captors
Venezuela Today ^ | Feb. 18, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2005 5:40:49 PM PST by Kitten Festival

Breaking news from reliable Venezuelan media, no full story in English yet. Developing....

(Excerpt) Read more at venezuelatoday.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baseball; beisbol; benberyberygoodtome; kidnap; mother; pitcher; ransom; rescue; rescued; season; shootout; springtraining; thugs; tigers; uggy; ugueth; urbina; venezuela
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Go Uggy!
1 posted on 02/18/2005 5:40:52 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

bump.


2 posted on 02/18/2005 5:46:51 PM PST by michaelt
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To: Kitten Festival

Good timing, because pitchers and cat6chers have already reported.


3 posted on 02/18/2005 5:47:55 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Look it up!)
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To: Kitten Festival

Could you provide some background?


4 posted on 02/18/2005 5:48:21 PM PST by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: Tree of Liberty

Ugueth Urbina is a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. His mother was kidnapped for ransom (since he makes millions).


5 posted on 02/18/2005 5:51:25 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

If true, this is great news.


6 posted on 02/18/2005 5:59:01 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: Strategerist

And she's been missing for months, I think, right? It was during the season last year that she was kidnapped, if I remember correctly. I'm glad to hear she's apparently free and OK.


7 posted on 02/18/2005 5:59:08 PM PST by saquin
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To: Kitten Festival
Dear Ugie:

When you sign a big-league contract and get paid a bazillion dollars to throw a baseball, your first order of business should be to move your entire family OUT of the rat-hole where you grew up.

8 posted on 02/18/2005 6:14:05 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: OldFriend

Yeah, I think Jack Bauer got in there and shot a dozen people and freed the woman.


9 posted on 02/18/2005 6:17:17 PM PST by raptor29
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To: raptor29

Sure it wasn't Russell Crowe?


10 posted on 02/18/2005 6:18:42 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Alberta's Child

A little thing called immigration laws in the way.


11 posted on 02/18/2005 6:18:45 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I believe his mother didn't want to leave.


12 posted on 02/18/2005 6:19:26 PM PST by Strategerist
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I believe his mother didn't want to leave.

Lots of folks never wanted to leave Detroit, either . . .

13 posted on 02/18/2005 6:21:11 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: OldFriend
I don't think "immigration laws" would ever get in the way of a multi-millionaire bringing his family to the U.S.

Heck, if she came across the Rio Grande they'd call her a "guest worker" even if she were 70 years old and confined to a wheelchair.

14 posted on 02/18/2005 6:23:14 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Glad they rescued her! The daughter of the former President of Paraguay was kidnapped by FARC a couple of months ago - and they just found her body yesterday (she had been buried alive). These creeps play for keeps.


15 posted on 02/18/2005 6:26:04 PM PST by livius
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To: Alberta's Child

Urbina plays for Detroit, so I guess by your standards he and his mother are screwed...


16 posted on 02/18/2005 6:27:27 PM PST by Skip Ripley
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To: Kitten Festival

All right! Go Bengals!


17 posted on 02/18/2005 6:27:50 PM PST by zook
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To: Skip Ripley
LOL!!

Shows you how disconnected I've become from baseball . . . I had no idea what team he played for.

18 posted on 02/18/2005 6:28:21 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: Strategerist

thanks


19 posted on 02/18/2005 6:43:01 PM PST by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: Kitten Festival

Who got the save?


20 posted on 02/18/2005 6:43:50 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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