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What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly.
"Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.
Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
The shows she'd watch on the Discovery Channel hadn't prepared her for a kidnapping. Terrorist attack? Yes. Defending her home? Yes. Kidnapped by a police officer? No. She'd have to write to the network about that.
Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.
Sometimes theft can be as simple and direct as a fist in an unsuspecting face, and sometimes it can be as complex as a military operation.
First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.
One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
Get kidnapped once, and you're branded for life." "You came home married, crowned, with a DayGlo prehistoric cat and two Unseelie guardians.
Did you really ever think of me when you were kidnapped? Because I look at all the things you went through, and my first instinct is to shield you from my problems - but sometimes you act like nothing happened to you at all.
You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.
Kidnapping is a harsh word."
"But accurate. I assume you're not going to hang around Mars until I fix the software bug, if a problem ever existed. I'm on a one-way voyage to Slakeria, right?
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ...
We're ganna we like to actually um, kidnap them in a van, and tie them up, and leave them somewhere dangerous ... that's the SUPRISE!
What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
This hostage stuff is fun.
If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.
One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.
these merchants of men handle a new variety of human cargo: not hostages but rather migrants. A surreal interdependency, therefore, links the kidnapping of Westerners and the trafficking of migrants.
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.
The writer Warwick Cairns calculated that if you wanted your child to be kidnapped and held overnight by a stranger, you'd have to leave the child outside and unattended for 750,000 years.211
Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind.
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back
She wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped.
willing prisoner
Why on earth would I try to escape the vile tyrant keeping me held hostage? I have no idea.
What does a former kidnapper/murderer do in retirement? - Caleb
People imprison themselves.
Poor, poor girl. All tied up and nowhere to go.
Property is organized robbery.
This Islam business kidnapped me.
You call it getting robbed, I call it food delivery.
A hostage?"
"They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?
I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
was being plundered
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
Where there's property, there's theft.
They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.
So, tell me this: suppose you manage to kidnap her again and take her off to the mall. While you're there a Strigoi comes at you. What will you do?
Depends on what store we're in.
Confinement. This morning the plane was over the Malay peninsula,
I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess.
The menace of human trafficking continues to endure only because, there are some heartless men who are taking advantage of the lives and bodies the gullible victims get trapped into.
And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.
When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff.
Where are they going to hide the boy next?
Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?"
"I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts ...
I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
Oh good," said the Beast dryly. "Here I was afraid that I had kidnapped a sane person by mistake." "If you are going to kidnap travelers, you will simply have to take what you can get," snapped Bryony.
Getting bin Laden
Someone dropped her off in a shopping mall food court just before her third birthday. Pinned to her dress was a note with the name Anna, a date of birth, and the words, This child is possessed.
A ransom note, the true test of unconditional love.
I'm starting to wonder if taking hostages was such a good idea.
But he was not kidnapped ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Property is theft!
People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
What do you ask a sexual predator that likes to kidnap women and break them down until he's tired of them?
Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.
You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Will you buckle in? It's bad enough we kidnapped you.
But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.
Freedom comes with a price while bondage takes hold without notice
I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.
Detention turned out to be code for slavery.
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that's become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.
Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.
The truth is that I told Lucius Kennet and Silas to kidnap you for me, but I thought they could do it without using any horrid stratagems! That was fair enough! There could be no possible objection, for how could I kidnap you myself?
Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
Fat people are harder to kidnap.
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?
Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.
They got another girl in Louisiana who robbed two college boys and put fish hooks in their ball sacks after stealing their car and all their money.
Now that you've abducted me, does this mean you're going to strip me naked and probe me?
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking."
"I get it, Swopes. He's not the kind of man you take home to meet your
stepmom." I rethought that. "Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?
the crime as we knew it. I told them I'd send
I found the bank robbery getaway car but was scolded over the FBI radio. Why?"
~ From Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People.
Tortured for the Republic.
Her victim - of necessity she must put him away from her - he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. What was
Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
sold into an indentured servitude
You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
We want to move even a step forward toward resolving the abduction issue.
What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
You snitch!" It's 6:45p.m. and I am being held hostage by terrorist extremists with a list of demands that make Al-Qaeda look like preschoolers playing pirate.