On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:59:12 -0800, Gunner Asch
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Are you back?

Until 5am tommorow morning

Gunner
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Any of these your relations from the old country? :-)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...676654,00.html

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Four German pensioners were so incensed with their financial
advisor after making losses on investments that they kidnapped
him in a bid to get their money back. They told the court at
their trial on Monday that they had been "taken for a ride."

A quartet of disgruntled German pensioners is alleged to have
taken the law into their own hands after investments turned sour.
The four, plus an accomplice, faced charges of kidnapping in a
German court on Monday. They are accused of holding their
financial advisor hostage for four days last June after
sustaining heavy losses on property investments in the US.

On Monday one of the accused, a 74-year old man, admitted that he
and one of his co-accused had snatched the 56-year-old advisor
from his home and transporting him across the country.

The accused said that he had been "taken for a ride and fooled"
by the financial advisor.

Prosecutors have charged the two married couples, aged between 60
and 79, as well as an alleged co-conspirator, with carrying out
the kidnapping in order to recoup losses amounting to €2.5
million ($3.4 million) in rotten investments.

According to the prosecutors, the accused tied up the advisor in
his apartment, covered his mouth with tape and then used a
pushcart to transport him in a box to a car, where they place him
in the trunk. The hostage managed to escape the car during the
455-kilometer journey across the country, but was recaptured and
sustained two broken ribs in the struggle.
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Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).