As we have reported earlier, not only women are being given "date rape drugs". After all, the point of drugging someone can be rape, robbery, abduction - or any combination hereof.
On March 14 Earthtimes.org had a story about a 45-year-old Swiss man - a former Hollywood bodyguard and karate champion - who was found dead inside a Hong Kong love hotel in the Wan Chai nightclub district.
The article also mentioned other high profile cases which involved expatriates found dead after evenings out in the notorious nightclub district.
One of these cases involved a senior Finnish policeman who died of a heart attack at a Hong Kong hotel in 2003 after being administered with the "date rape" drug Rohypnol (flunitrazepam).
Showing posts with label abduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abduction. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
'Latching out'
You have probably heard the acronym RTFM (which stands for: Read The F****** Manual!)?
Well, maybe this story should give an indication as to why we men (because most of us will not RTFM) need to get over the "I'll figure it out myself and prove I'm a man - then - when everything else fails, I might read the manual" syndrome.
This story shows a very smart young woman. A series of precise observations and actions taking place. Read it!
Story:
Florida -- Abcnews.go.com reports about a woman who was forced, at gunpoint, into the trunk of her own car in Dayonta Beach on February 12 .
Saying to herself she had to get out before he got on the highway, the 26-year-old woman remembered the emergency latch in her trunk. She was able to jump when the carjacker slowed down, escaping with only a small scratch.
The woman said she remembered the latch because she had read the entire manual when she bought the car.
Well, maybe this story should give an indication as to why we men (because most of us will not RTFM) need to get over the "I'll figure it out myself and prove I'm a man - then - when everything else fails, I might read the manual" syndrome.
This story shows a very smart young woman. A series of precise observations and actions taking place. Read it!
Story:
Florida -- Abcnews.go.com reports about a woman who was forced, at gunpoint, into the trunk of her own car in Dayonta Beach on February 12 .
Saying to herself she had to get out before he got on the highway, the 26-year-old woman remembered the emergency latch in her trunk. She was able to jump when the carjacker slowed down, escaping with only a small scratch.
The woman said she remembered the latch because she had read the entire manual when she bought the car.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Eye-opening gadget
California -- The swift arrest of a San Jose man in the abduction of a 12-year-old girl this week was aided by an eye-opening gadget that can scan the license plates of a street full of cars and instantly alert police to which vehicles have been reported stolen, sfgate.com reports.
It was a breakthrough moment for license plate recognition, a technology that is spreading to law enforcement around the Bay Area - and is prompting privacy concerns.
A San Jose police officer was on routine patrol Monday, hours after the girl had been rammed with a stolen car and pulled inside while she was walking with her sister in the Willow Glen neighborhood. Police said her attacker had tried to sexually assault her before she fought back and escaped barefoot.
It was a breakthrough moment for license plate recognition, a technology that is spreading to law enforcement around the Bay Area - and is prompting privacy concerns.
A San Jose police officer was on routine patrol Monday, hours after the girl had been rammed with a stolen car and pulled inside while she was walking with her sister in the Willow Glen neighborhood. Police said her attacker had tried to sexually assault her before she fought back and escaped barefoot.
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Shout!
New York -- A man yanked a 9-year-old girl off the street in Melville Thursday evening, drove her a quarter of a mile, then released her, Suffolk County police said.
Police said they weren’t sure why the man released the girl, but they surmised it was because the child was screaming loudly.
Her mother had taught the girl to make noise if she was in harm's way, and police said they believe this may have saved her.
Source
Police said they weren’t sure why the man released the girl, but they surmised it was because the child was screaming loudly.
Her mother had taught the girl to make noise if she was in harm's way, and police said they believe this may have saved her.
Source
Thursday, April 26, 2007
False reports
In New South Wales, Australia, about 30 people faked their own kidnappings in the past year.
Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures show that NSW has the highest recorded kidnapping rate in the country, with 6.9 abductions per 100,000 people.
However, the bureau's report found that of the 238 cases of alleged abduction reviewed by researchers, only 57 per cent involved an actual abduction.
About one-third of victims experienced an attempted abduction and 4 per cent of cases did not fall into the legal description of abduction. In 7 per cent of cases, either no abduction took place or a false report was given to police.
There were 422 recorded abductions between October 2005 and September 2006. That would suggest about 30 people falsified kidnappings last year.
Source
Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures show that NSW has the highest recorded kidnapping rate in the country, with 6.9 abductions per 100,000 people.
However, the bureau's report found that of the 238 cases of alleged abduction reviewed by researchers, only 57 per cent involved an actual abduction.
About one-third of victims experienced an attempted abduction and 4 per cent of cases did not fall into the legal description of abduction. In 7 per cent of cases, either no abduction took place or a false report was given to police.
There were 422 recorded abductions between October 2005 and September 2006. That would suggest about 30 people falsified kidnappings last year.
Source
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
'Mall-Wart'?
Quite alarming statistics regarding Wal-Mart ...
Story:
Wal-Mart complexes experience a significant number of police incidents, more so than at other shopping complexes. This is according to a national study published less than a year ago by United Food and Commercial Workers International Union at WakeUpWalMart.com.
The study examined police reports associated with 551 Wal-Mart stores across the country. It collected data from 404 police departments from 434 cities and towns.
The study demonstrates that nationally, Wal-Mart stores cost local taxpayers an estimated $77 million in increased police costs in 2004.
What the report calls "magnet for crime" is not limited to merely in-store crimes like shoplifting and check forgery. Included is also violent and serious crimes including rape, attempted rape, aggravated assault, burglary, auto-theft, arson, narcotics, kidnapping and murder.
The report shows that there were 1,024 auto thefts reported at Wal-Mart stores, 154 sex crimes, 23 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings and 1,145 assaults with a deadly weapon.
Source
Story:
Wal-Mart complexes experience a significant number of police incidents, more so than at other shopping complexes. This is according to a national study published less than a year ago by United Food and Commercial Workers International Union at WakeUpWalMart.com.
The study examined police reports associated with 551 Wal-Mart stores across the country. It collected data from 404 police departments from 434 cities and towns.
The study demonstrates that nationally, Wal-Mart stores cost local taxpayers an estimated $77 million in increased police costs in 2004.
What the report calls "magnet for crime" is not limited to merely in-store crimes like shoplifting and check forgery. Included is also violent and serious crimes including rape, attempted rape, aggravated assault, burglary, auto-theft, arson, narcotics, kidnapping and murder.
The report shows that there were 1,024 auto thefts reported at Wal-Mart stores, 154 sex crimes, 23 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings and 1,145 assaults with a deadly weapon.
Source
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Asking for directions
Asking for directions is a very common way to distract a potential victim...
Story 1:
West Virginia -- City police are working to determine if a possible abduction attempt in Martins Ferry late Sunday involved the man wanted in the recent abduction and rape of a Wheeling girl.
The suspect wanted in the abduction of the Wheeling girl also is believed to have been responsible for the attempted abduction of a Martins Ferry teen on Feb. 18. In both of those instances, the suspect asked the victim for directions before attacking them.
According to a report from the Martins Ferry Police Department, the suspect in Sunday's incident pulled along side the teen, and he became aggravated when she would not answer his questions. The report does not indicate what was asked.
Story 2:
Illinois -- Chicago Police are looking for two people who attempted to abduct a woman in the Hyde Park area on the South Side on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old woman was walking in the area about 10 p.m. Tuesday when a man asked her for directions, then grabbed her as she approached his vehicle. A struggle ensued and the woman was able to flee from the offender.
Story 3:
New Zealand -- Police are looking for a man in his late 20s or early 30s who attempted to get a 15 year old girl into his car in Wainuiomata last night.
Lower Hutt Police said the girl was walking home alone around 6.50pm when the man approached her in a car and asked for directions.
After giving him directions she carried on but a short time later noticed the same vehicle approach and stop in the middle of the road.
Police said the driver aggressively demanded she get into the vehicle the girl responded by screaming out which caused the man to drive away.
Source (1) - Source (2) - Source (3)
Story 1:
West Virginia -- City police are working to determine if a possible abduction attempt in Martins Ferry late Sunday involved the man wanted in the recent abduction and rape of a Wheeling girl.
The suspect wanted in the abduction of the Wheeling girl also is believed to have been responsible for the attempted abduction of a Martins Ferry teen on Feb. 18. In both of those instances, the suspect asked the victim for directions before attacking them.
According to a report from the Martins Ferry Police Department, the suspect in Sunday's incident pulled along side the teen, and he became aggravated when she would not answer his questions. The report does not indicate what was asked.
Story 2:
Illinois -- Chicago Police are looking for two people who attempted to abduct a woman in the Hyde Park area on the South Side on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old woman was walking in the area about 10 p.m. Tuesday when a man asked her for directions, then grabbed her as she approached his vehicle. A struggle ensued and the woman was able to flee from the offender.
Story 3:
New Zealand -- Police are looking for a man in his late 20s or early 30s who attempted to get a 15 year old girl into his car in Wainuiomata last night.
Lower Hutt Police said the girl was walking home alone around 6.50pm when the man approached her in a car and asked for directions.
After giving him directions she carried on but a short time later noticed the same vehicle approach and stop in the middle of the road.
Police said the driver aggressively demanded she get into the vehicle the girl responded by screaming out which caused the man to drive away.
Source (1) - Source (2) - Source (3)
Thursday, December 07, 2006
"Panic mode"
It's so easy to slip from healthy dozes of precaution and suspicion, to seeing ghosts everywhere.
Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
Source
Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
Source
Friday, September 15, 2006
The typical victim
Here's more about the highly interesting study by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (USA):
Story:
The assailant put a towel over her face. She screamed for help. "Shut up! Shut up!" he ordered. "I have a knife. I'll stab you."
"He was trying to force me to walk with him, but I kept fighting him," says Stephanie, then 14. Two men working nearby heard her yell and ran to help.
Stephanie's case fits the pattern of most attempted abductions, according to a study released today by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The typical victim is a teenage girl on her way to or from school.
The study, released as a new school year gets underway, examined 403 attempted kidnappings by strangers or slight acquaintances that were reported by police or news media in 45 states from February 2005 to July 2006. It was conducted to learn how such attempts are foiled. The study did not look at successful abductions.
Source
Story:
The assailant put a towel over her face. She screamed for help. "Shut up! Shut up!" he ordered. "I have a knife. I'll stab you."
"He was trying to force me to walk with him, but I kept fighting him," says Stephanie, then 14. Two men working nearby heard her yell and ran to help.
Stephanie's case fits the pattern of most attempted abductions, according to a study released today by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The typical victim is a teenage girl on her way to or from school.
The study, released as a new school year gets underway, examined 403 attempted kidnappings by strangers or slight acquaintances that were reported by police or news media in 45 states from February 2005 to July 2006. It was conducted to learn how such attempts are foiled. The study did not look at successful abductions.
Source
Sunday, June 18, 2006
A neat move
Here's a neat little defensive "trick" that has been used by several persons to escape abductors.
Story:
An eight-year-old girl escaped an abduction attempt after a man offered her lollies in a western Sydney street, police say.
The man attempted to lure the girl into his blue Magna sedan as she walked at Lethbridge Park about 8:30 a.m. yesterday.
After offering her sweets, police said the driver left his car and grabbed the girl by the arm.
She broke free by slipping out of her jumper before running home.
Source
Story:
An eight-year-old girl escaped an abduction attempt after a man offered her lollies in a western Sydney street, police say.
The man attempted to lure the girl into his blue Magna sedan as she walked at Lethbridge Park about 8:30 a.m. yesterday.
After offering her sweets, police said the driver left his car and grabbed the girl by the arm.
She broke free by slipping out of her jumper before running home.
Source
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Daring daytime escape
Canada -- A teenaged girl made a daring escape from alleged abductors Tuesday evening after she was snatched from the street and thrown in the backseat of a car.
The incident happened in Toronto's east end. Police allege that the unnamed 15-year-old girl was approached by a man while walking down the street.
According to police, she was then allegedly forced into the backseat of a car.
The girl kicked the vehicle's rear door open and fled.
Source
The incident happened in Toronto's east end. Police allege that the unnamed 15-year-old girl was approached by a man while walking down the street.
According to police, she was then allegedly forced into the backseat of a car.
The girl kicked the vehicle's rear door open and fled.
Source
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Domestic violence, Bangladesh
Figures like these really makes a painful read:
At least 3,043 women died in different incidents of domestic violence last year and of them, 1041 victims committed suicide, according to a report released by the Mass-line Media Centre (MMC) recently.
Repression and sexual harassment led most women to take their own lives while rape and abduction were identified as most common violations of child rights in 2005.
The women fell victim to repression and violence mainly because of dowry, conflicts in conjugal life and poverty, said the report.
During the one year period from January to December, a total of 54,954 women fell victim to different forms of rights violations.
The report said 875 women were raped during the period and 165 were killed after rape. And 275 rape incidents, the highest at divisional level, took place in Rajshahi.
Some 1235 women fell victim to repression over dowry. Of them, 505 victims were killed and 428 others injured. Rajshahi division witnessed the most such incidents.
The forms of repression include beating, stabbing, acid attack, burning and forced starvation, the report said.
Source
At least 3,043 women died in different incidents of domestic violence last year and of them, 1041 victims committed suicide, according to a report released by the Mass-line Media Centre (MMC) recently.
Repression and sexual harassment led most women to take their own lives while rape and abduction were identified as most common violations of child rights in 2005.
The women fell victim to repression and violence mainly because of dowry, conflicts in conjugal life and poverty, said the report.
During the one year period from January to December, a total of 54,954 women fell victim to different forms of rights violations.
The report said 875 women were raped during the period and 165 were killed after rape. And 275 rape incidents, the highest at divisional level, took place in Rajshahi.
Some 1235 women fell victim to repression over dowry. Of them, 505 victims were killed and 428 others injured. Rajshahi division witnessed the most such incidents.
The forms of repression include beating, stabbing, acid attack, burning and forced starvation, the report said.
Source
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
She remembered a lesson
She was taught well, and did the right thing.
Self-defense don't have to be fancy or difficult - the basic stuff usually works best.
Story:
The quick-thinking teen told her abductor she dropped her ring on the car floor and as she pretended to search for it, she found a hammer underneath the seat. She remembered a lesson from school about looking for a weapon in this type of situation. She used the hammer and hit the man in the groin.
Source
Self-defense don't have to be fancy or difficult - the basic stuff usually works best.
Story:
The quick-thinking teen told her abductor she dropped her ring on the car floor and as she pretended to search for it, she found a hammer underneath the seat. She remembered a lesson from school about looking for a weapon in this type of situation. She used the hammer and hit the man in the groin.
Source
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