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Traditional kidnaps (think Ransom with Mel Gibson) used to happen a lot back in the days so the police from my home state came up with this super awesome SWAT like team specialized in kidnaps and hostage rescue. They are extremely good, so good that those kidnaps basically don't exist anymore. Criminals had to up their game and came up with "flash kidnaps" which is basically being taken hostage with your car while they drive you to random ATMs and either force you to withdraw money for them or give them the PIN so they can do it while you're still under their control. It usually takes a few hours.Jesus kidnapped twice?! What's the story behind that?
This is what happened twice with my brother. The first one was relatively fast and professional but the second one was quite different. They had him for a long time, threatening to kill him constantly. He was kidnaped around 8pm when he was existing a video rental shop and they let him go around 5am, or something like that, in the middle of nowhere in some rural area. He was absolutely certain they were going to kill him there. It was very traumatic for him! This was back in the early 2000s, there wasn't a lot of high tech going on back then so they were able to take a lot of fucking money basically just taking every money available in the ATM machine and then going to the next and so on... Nowadays there's a system that blocks the account and credit cards if something like this happens so even if you have a million in your bank account they are not getting much.
Not sure why my brother was targeted twice, he doesn't look like an easy target (he's a big dude) or drove expensive cars. I guess it was just bad luck! I was always extremely lucky though and nothing ever happened to me but I had my travel money stolen in Chicago