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How about kidnapping your loved ones for ransom?
by lr4444lr 9y ago
How about kidnapping your loved ones for ransom?
- ch4s3 9y agoah yes, the booming American kidnapping business. /s Seriously though, it's not hard to find targets for this sort of thing by looking at census data and sales records for nice homes, yet it really never happens in the US. WHen was the last time you heard of some random lawyer, ceo, or banker getting kidnapped in the US?
- WalterBright 9y agoBack when I worked for Data I/O, the wife of the CEO was kidnapped and held for ransom. There was a home invasion a couple blocks away. Lots of people prefer to keep a low profile and not attract these sorts of crimes.
- ch4s3 9y agoI mean yes, if you can imagine a crime, surely it has happened in a nation of 350 million people. I think my point stands that it's an extremely rare crime, that's hard to commit, harder to cash in on, and harder still to get away with.
- icelancer 9y agoA few years ago the townhome next to me was broken into and a woman was kidnapped. So, I guess a few years ago, I'd say.
- lr4444lr 9y agoHow about service providers like car repairmen and house contractors ripping people off? How about gold-diggers pursuing people on false romantic pretenses? How about just people gossiping about you out of envy?
- ch4s3 9y agoDoesn't that already happen? And what evidence do you have to suggest that known income would make it worse on average? What about cases where a contractor would presume a client is wealthy and try to rip them off, but income data would show that they are actually not as well off as appearances suggest? But I haven't really bothered to think through any of that, because my point was about kidnapping, which almost never happens in the US. Fewer than 100 people are kidnapped for ransom in the US every year.
- conanbatt 9y agoI guess thats why executives need the big bucks, to compensate all that kidnapping risk.