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The story begins with the abduction of a rich wife for ransom.
She is buried alive and her abductor sets about collecting the ransom for the location of her grave.
When he over hears a conversation about her firing him, he and his best Rusty friend decide to kidnap Crocks lovable dog for ransom.
As Rusty and Willard find out, they decide to up the ransom and try to make Crock pay for her bad deeds while the two friends are being pursued by the police, having to pay a crazy mortician Grover to help them in the plan, and make fake notes and videos with the kidnapper saying he'll kill Willard if he doesn't get his five million!
He does this as an attempt to get ransom money from her husband.
The film is a very convoluted tale of a strange rich woman who kidnaps a Sicilian mobster and holds him for ransom.
An ex-con and his girlfriend join up with a pair of criminals to kidnap a lawyer's 8 year-old son and hold him for ransom.
During a visit to his Granny Wendy in London however, his past returns to haunt him when the villainous Captain Hook kidnaps the kids and holds them to ransom.
After attaching limpet mines to both rigs, they demand a huge ransom from the British Government.
Only that this mean lady named Ragina and her boyfriend (who is pretty dumb) Floyd have some ransom on him and take the dog away.
In the film, a Catholic and a seemingly good man commits criminally perverse acts, a wealthy young woman engages in prostitution for fun, and a loving couple of limited means kidnap a baby for ransom from an equally poor family.
Some bad guys hijack a multi-million dollar oil rig and proceed to hold the British government to ransom for it.
When the young couple secretly dates in the ruins of Touggourt, where Yasmin dances, the criminals attack Ahmed, beat up and capture him, expecting to ask for a ransom.
Likewise, in his election manifesto, Sirisena warns: “The land that the White Man took over by means of military strength is now being obtained by foreigners by paying ransom to a handful of persons… If this trend continues for another six years, our country would become a colony and we would become slaves.”
For their part, the militias that overthrew Qaddafi have released prisoners in exchange for ransom payments.
The latest Greek negotiating strategy is to demand a ransom to desist threatening suicide.
So far this year they have raided more than 50 vessels, stealing cargos and hijacking ships, from private yachts to oil tankers, and extorting some $100 million a year in ransom.
The Harsh Truth About India’s GodmenNEW DELHI – Late last month, when two Indian states and the national capital were held to ransom by rioting mobs protesting their spiritual leader’s conviction on two counts of raping minor girls, many Indians found themselves confronting several painful truths about their country.
ISIL’s ransom demand was not just a bid for cash; it sent a powerful message.
When the ransom demand did not work, ISIL shifted its approach, but not its goal.
When the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to Dhaka Airport in Bangladesh in 1977, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda not only paid the $6 million ransom; he also resorted to the “extralegal measure” of handing over imprisoned members of the faction.
“Upon the whole it rests with Congress to decide between war, tribute, and ransom as the means of re-establishing our Mediterranean commerce,” Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson advised President George Washington in 1790, as he pondered a response to continued attacks by the Barbary Pirates on America’s merchant fleet off of North Africa.
Hunger drove the armies to take hostages for ransom.
Likewise, John Paul Getty, the US-born industrialist who was the world’s richest person during his time, was so obsessively frugal and paranoid that, when his grandson was kidnapped, he negotiated down the ransom demand, even after the kidnappers sent him a lock of his grandson’s hair and one of his ears.
A democrat who opposed ballot rigging in his town, his body was broken by mafia networks in “safe” Turkey, in a succession of torture sessions for ransom.
Recognizing this problem, banks can hold their host governments to ransom.
At the same time, we are paying a king’s ransom for biomass.
When the ransom could not be raised, one was beheaded.
Sheila Coronel, a distinguished investigative journalist and the academic dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has found that the list of illicit rewards includes profits from extortion, property commandeered from victims, ransom for kidnapped suspects, and even commissions from funeral parlors.
Analysts and bondholders have also lobbied the opposition-controlled National Assembly to recognize Venezuela’s external debt in exchange for the freedom of political prisoners, implying that the payment of your bonds can be secured through ransom.
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