Were you ever nearly kidnapped when you were younger?

freshpopcorn · 08-09-2013 05:01PM #1

When I was about 12 I was outside my house playing swingball, I could hear a car driving up our country road very slowly. When the car got closer to me it stopped and my a man got out and he went to climb over our garden hedge. I ran away into my house and he sped away.

Anyone have a similar experience?

Frosty McSnowballs · 08-09-2013 05:02PM

Yeah same thing happened to me, the little bastard ran off when i hopped over the hedge!

saintsaltynuts · 08-09-2013 05:02PM

Na i was an ugly,scruffy git.

Ilik Urgee · 08-09-2013 05:03PM

It's not so bad, they gave me the WEP key last week.:(

kneemos · 08-09-2013 05:05PM

Now then.Now then.

funt cucker · 08-09-2013 05:06PM

Yep a few times, right outside the house as well. Pure daylight in a housing estate. Id say it was 1983 or 84.

MadsL · 08-09-2013 05:08PM

Yes, I was about six. My father owning his own company, a couple of local wannabe gangsters decide he was easy pickings, we weren't rich but the tax write off company Jaguar parked in the drive begged to differ.

Anyway, these lads decided they would snatch me from school and managed to grab me. I woke up in the back of a van.

My parents received a ransom note requesting 5 grand. My dad put in a counter offer of 10 grand if they would keep me. I was dropped off the next day.

ringadingding · 08-09-2013 05:12PM

I wasn't sexy enough as a kid :-(

Frosty McSnowballs · 08-09-2013 05:13PM

ringadingding wrote: »

I wasn't sexy enough as a kid :-(

What about now?

biko · 08-09-2013 05:16PM

A strange woman tried to pick me up from the creche.
Turns put my ma had got a new haircut.

freshpopcorn · 08-09-2013 05:23PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Yeah same thing happened to me, the little bastard ran off when i hopped over the hedge!

I hope you got a new car, it was some rust bucket!

Frosty McSnowballs · 08-09-2013 05:25PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I hope you got a new car, it was some rust bucket!

Nope, it took years and years of child tears to rust that car!

Amirani · 08-09-2013 05:53PM

There was a man in a white van outside my house once. Odds are it was a kidnapper.

lukesmom · 08-09-2013 05:55PM

I was kidnapped aged 12 from the local quinnsworth and I still live with my kidnapper. He only lets me go on boards.ie. and sometimes askaboutmoney

mattjack · 08-09-2013 05:57PM

lukesmom wrote: »

I was kidnapped aged 12 from the local quinnsworth and I still live with my kidnapper. He only lets me go on boards.ie. and sometimes askaboutmoney

Quinnsworth ? that must make you about 86 years of age.

lukesmom · 08-09-2013 05:57PM

mattjack wrote: »

Quinnsworth ? that must make you about 86 years of age.

Yeah it was quinnsworth when I was 12

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 06:01PM

funt cucker wrote: »

Yep a few times, right outside the house as well. Pure daylight in a housing estate. Id say it was 1983 or 84.

Well, weren't you Mr. Popular!

gramar · 08-09-2013 06:05PM

I was thumbing home once on winter's evening when I was about 15.
A car stopped and the man got out to let me in the boot as it was a two door job.

There was another man in the front and both had heavy northern accents. I thought for a few miles they might be some loyalist fellas down south to kidnap some young catholic lad.

Not sure why Ithought it but it crossed my mind maybe because I was trapped in the back. No such drama though and they me let out no bother where I wanted so if you're reading.....thanks lads.

tim3000 · 08-09-2013 06:10PM

When I was about 5-6 I was living in a small house quite deep in the country. At about 8-9 one summers evening my parents got a knock at the door. They answered it and outside were 2 people a man and a woman claiming to be child services here to take away the three kids. Needless to say my parents were quick to tell them where to go. The next day my mum reported it to the Gardai and it turns we weren't the only ones to get such a visit

funt cucker · 08-09-2013 06:11PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Well, weren't you Mr. Popular!

Yes, but scary on a serious note. Makes me think how many kids in my estate were approached at that time by the same guy?

freshpopcorn · 08-09-2013 06:14PM

mattjack wrote: »

Quinnsworth ? that must make you about 86 years of age.

Quinnsworth only exited the Emerald Isle in 1997!

Roger_007 · 08-09-2013 06:16PM

I'm glad the thread title say's 'nearly kidnapped' because as far as I know there has been no recorded case of actual kidnapping, (of children that is), in Ireland in the past 50 years apart from abduction by family members.

Yakult · 08-09-2013 06:20PM

3 years old, I hopped on my tricycle and hit the open road. Got into town (which is about 700-800 meters from home) went down the back ally which I knew from walks and next thing i know some guy picks me and puts me and my tricycle into the back of his van. After a short drive, the door opens and there was my mother. Could easily have been a different ending!

mattjack · 08-09-2013 06:32PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Quinnsworth only exited the Emerald Isle in 1997!

erm , just a bit of poetic licence .

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 06:38PM

Roger_007 wrote: »

I'm glad the thread title say's 'nearly kidnapped' because as far as I know there has been no recorded case of actual kidnapping, (of children that is), in Ireland in the past 50 years apart from abduction by family members.

Philip Cairns was only 13 when he was kidnapped in 1986, that was 27 years ago and I was 10 at the time when the case was all over the news.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cairns

freshpopcorn · 08-09-2013 06:40PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Philip Cairns was only 13 when he was kidnapped in 1986, that was 27 years ago and I was 10 at the time when the case was all over the news.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cairns

I don't think he was technically kidnapped tough!

Roger_007 · 08-09-2013 06:43PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Philip Cairns was only 13 when he was kidnapped in 1986, that was 27 years ago and I was 10 at the time when the case was all over the news.

A very sad case indeed. Nobody knows what happened to him. He is still a missing person. There is no proof that he was kidnapped.

Miss Lockhart · 08-09-2013 06:48PM

Not as a child but when I was 19. A man pulled over on a quiet road I was walking on to ask directions. I didn't stop but he leaned out and grabbed me. I pulled free and ran to the nearest house. He didn't try follow or anything though.

I can't be sure he was trying to take me or attack me or if he was just angry I was ignoring him, but it really scared me. It's a country road but in the middle of a built-up Dublin suburb. Risky place to try snatch someone I suppose.

funt cucker · 08-09-2013 06:49PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Philip Cairns was only 13 when he was kidnapped in 1986, that was 27 years ago and I was 10 at the time when the case was all over the news.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cairns

I remember reading a massive conspiracy about him and people in politics. Probably bull, I read it years ago.

The One Who Knocks · 08-09-2013 06:50PM

wait a minute...

The One Who Knocks · 08-09-2013 06:50PM

lukesmom wrote: »

Yeah it was quinnsworth when I was 12

Wait, so if you were 12 in 2001 that would make you 24 now, and given that Luke is now 11 then that would mean you were only 13 when you had Luke.

That can only mean one thing.....

Luke, you're adopted.

Were you ever nearly kidnapped when you were younger?

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