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Were you ever nearly kidnapped when you were younger?

freshpopcorn

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?

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freshpopcorn

ted1 wrote: »

Does Philip Cairns not count?

He wasn't kidnapped because their is no proof!

ted1

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.

Does Philip Cairns not count?

Witchie

Like a few stories on here, I was very lucky. At about 2 years old I was in my aunts house being babysat and somehow slipped out of the house and wandered up onto a main road. A lorry driver spotted a wee woolly headed toddler wearing red slippers walking alone on the dangerous N2 and stopped and took me up to a neighbours house. They rightly guessed where I had come from and I was safely returned.

Very lucky really.

While not being kidnapped I had a very lucky escape from a peadophile priest. I used to hang out at the kinda youth centre he ran and he used to give me money and chocolate bars and would make you sit on his knee and he would kiss your cheek. I would always get the money/bar and leg it.

Turns out some were not so lucky.

The One Who Knocks

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Where did she say it was 2001?

nevermind, looked up quinnsworth and misread the founded year as 1996 instead of 1966. The darth vader theory is still highly probable though

YellowFeather

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well if took him up on his offer you could have being really special!

Yep. I'd have been the only kid on the block with a genuine Bolex.

shopaholic01

Jamez735 wrote: »

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.

Where did she say it was 2001?

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Jamez735 wrote: »

Yep, Luke's Mom was kidnapped and raped by Darth Vader outside quinnsworth.

Good heavens.

freshpopcorn

YellowFeather wrote: »

My neighbour's creepy grandad offered me his watch if I'd go for a drive with him when I was a kid. Thankfully I wasn't very materialistic so said no. Found out later he'd tried it on with a load of the other young girls on the road. I thought I was special.

Well if took him up on his offer you could have being really special!

YellowFeather

My neighbour's creepy grandad offered me his watch if I'd go for a drive with him when I was a kid. Thankfully I wasn't very materialistic so said no. Found out later he'd tried it on with a load of the other young girls on the road. I thought I was special.

Roger_007

who_me wrote: »

I once ran away from home when I was 2 or 3. After some frantic searching, my parents found me in the bar of a nearby hotel, propped up on a stool and happily slurping some Fanta some stranger had bought me. Kinda weird looking back on it...

Twas a lucky escape.... I nearly took him for all the Fanta he was worth.

Surely you mean 'waddled away from home'......:D

who_me

I once ran away from home when I was 2 or 3. After some frantic searching, my parents found me in the bar of a nearby hotel, propped up on a stool and happily slurping some Fanta some stranger had bought me. Kinda weird looking back on it...

Twas a lucky escape.... I nearly took him for all the Fanta he was worth.

freshpopcorn

Did nay of ye happen to see m aunts handbag that day at Quinnsworth? She's still looking for it!

funt cucker

Jamez735 wrote: »

Yep, Luke's Mom was kidnapped and raped by Darth Vader outside quinnsworth.

Definitely.

Gran Hermano

Luckily we didn't have any tapas bars in Wexford when I was a nipper.

The One Who Knocks

Yep, Luke's Mom was kidnapped and raped by Darth Vader outside quinnsworth.

Muise...

Jamez735 wrote: »

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.

Or Maurice Pratt says "Luke, I am your father" :eek::eek:

The One Who Knocks

funt cucker wrote: »

Or????

Oh yeah...never considered that alternative. Your story checks out then in that case, nevermind.

funt cucker

Or????

The One Who Knocks

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.

The One Who Knocks

wait a minute...

funt cucker

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.

Miss Lockhart

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.

Roger_007

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.

freshpopcorn

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!

Czarcasm

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

mattjack

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Quinnsworth only exited the Emerald Isle in 1997!

erm , just a bit of poetic licence .

Yakult

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!

Roger_007

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.

freshpopcorn

mattjack wrote: »

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

Quinnsworth only exited the Emerald Isle in 1997!

funt cucker

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?