December 8, 2007
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Ransom for a Dog
This is Edna. She disappeared on Halloween night.
One day the owner, Bill Whiting, received a phone call. The person on the phone said, “Mister, I got your dog. You don’t believe it? You want me to hurt it so you can hear?” The person on the phone wanted ransom money to give the dog back. Here is the link: Link
What is the most ransom you would pay to get your pet back?
Comments (83)
First!!
Wow, I think maybe $200.00? I don’t know, tough situation!
Wooah, probably a lot
$5.00
This makes me want to get a pet with one of those GPS trackers…not to protect my pet, but just to have fun busting criminals with bionic pets!!!
That would probably depend on the pet. It would also depend on how much money I had.
$200
Depends on which animal they went after. And how broke I was at the time.
how mean.
Wow, what an asshole.
o wow…thats a situation…what a jerk to steal a guys pet and hold it for ransom though…i would probably just say i’ll pay 1000 dollars and then have the police track down my dog with the gps thingy it already has
OMFG. The story disgusts me. It has to be some sort of a sick joke? The cruelty of the act far outweighs any monetary gain the kidnapper could ever hope to gain from a ransom.
Out of spite, I wouldn’t pay the kidnapper any money. I’d kindly request that he fucks himself.
$500 wasn’t enough of a reward? So they try extortion? I hope the guy gets his dog back.
$300
One bullet. But honestly, I probably wouldn’t give a shit.
I can’t believe these answers! My pup is member of my family and I can’t put a price on her head any more than I could put a price on my brother!
depends on how rich I am (unfortunately)
Wow, that sucks.
I dunno hw much I’d pay.
Nothing
It’s just an animal.
That is such a hard question. I’d like to say that I’d pay any amount to get my pup back, but I can’t afford “any amount.”
i can’t put a price. i’d put however much i have and get a loan if i had to. our dog is like our other child. i can’t believe people on here are saying “$200″ JUST $200!? are you kidding me?
I never had any pets, so I really don’t know how much I’d be willing to pay.
probably a lot. i really , really, really love my dog.
I’m not even sure what the most money is I would pay to get a person back.
But since I guess with people we’re Priceless, if it’s a dog you consider part-of-the-family I’d have to say it’s the same.
$500 but i would have been offering that as a reward anyway sooo…
no, i wouldnt pay one dime. i would say i was going to, then i would make the dog-napper pay. and in this case, their parents too.
I dont have any pets, but I think it will be priceless just like a family member
Eh.. $50, maybe more. Idk
As much as I had to. o__o You can’t put a price on my animal.
At the same time, I’d be REALLY stubborn in paying anybody for anything they didn’t deserve. >_> Don’t give him the money. Give him a bullet in self defense and take your dog to the nearest nummy food bakery.
But I live in a fantasy world where that actually works.
As much money as I had and could borrow from other people.
Nothing – I don’t own a dog. Even if I did, I’d just call the police.
Couldn’t the police trace the call, though?
I agree with BillBryant. I would pay nothing. I have no pets as I consider them only to be eating/pooping machines. If I want companionship/friendship, I prefer humans!
I’ve got gps tracking chips in my dogs. So I’d go over to the house and give the dog-napper a butt whooping.
I would only pay anything for a missing dog.
However much I had.
Well, I had a dog that I used to really really love. It died 2 years ago. If someone took her, I’d say.. $1,000.
as much as I had…. my cats mean EVERYTHING in the world to me.
I dunno, I would probably offer to give them all the dog food I had left to give them a good start with their new pet…
What a jerk. The thought of my dog being tortured would make me pay more than I would if the dog was just lost. I would probably get the authorities involved and hopefully not have to pay anything.
If my dog was kidnapped … they would most likely bring him back within 20 minutes. His constant whining would drive them crazy. They would pay me!!
“I don’t negotiate with terrorism”
“terrorists”
That’s a good, but difficult question…what I would want to pay and what I could afford to pay are two different things. But, probably as much or more than I’d pay to get my Hubby back. Teehee!
Happy Saturday, Theologian Man!
I have owned two dogs and would have put myself in harms way for either of them. Both were priceless. That crime is worth at least 10 years….no parole.
I wouldn’t pay those stupid kids any more than I’d offer for award. If they refused that generous offer, I’d track them down, and give them such a hurt they would never be able to move again without pain, hopefully. And then I would go after the parents, through the courts, though.
Correction. My first sentence is supposed to mean that I would pay the amount that I offered for award, but not over that.
Depends how much money I have and which pet of mine it is. If it’s my fish, probably like $5.00. Birds, $20. If it was a dog or cat, probably a lot more.
But really…that’s terrible.
Not as bad as an actual person being kidnapped, of course, but still painful.
I’d hunt whoever took my cats and kick their fucking ass.
None because I’d take it back after I beat their fuckin asses.
lol papercup and I seem to be on the same page.
.50
A lot.
As much as I had and then the animal knapper had better run and hide!
omg that’s awful. I would pay so much, it’s kind of bad.
What a butthead..
I hope this guy gets his dog back!
i wouldn’t give anything. i’d track that asshole down mel gibson “ransom” style, kill him, get my pet back and keep my money.
Not sure. My plan would be to get the dog AND the money back. I wouldn’t just pay the ransom and walk away.
What a sick fuck.
I wouldn’t pay anything. I’d trace the call to his house and go beat the living shit out of that guy. And hope the cops get to him first.
I can’t really answer the question. But I just wanted to comment to say that it’s ridiculous for the person to say something like that to the pet’s owner!
*since I don’t have a pet.
I dunno but…that’s twisted.
as much as i’d pay to get my kid back. but i’ll definitely get the police involved, and hopefully get my money back at the end of the day.
Wouldn’t have to pay anything. My doggie has one of those tracker chips in him, so I’d just call the police.
And if we’re talking about the fish I own, I wouldn’t really care…
Everything i have, and if i managed to see that bloody bastard, i will beat him up, take my dog and run away. Oh, throw in the police drama and let the bastard rot in jail. I hate animal abusers.
as much as it would take the guy to meet me–so i could louiseville slugger his knees..
wow, that is absolutely horrible.
i dont know… my dog is priceless to me. but i dont have a lot of spare money…
I wouldn’t pay a nickel in extortion/ransom money. What I would do is make it my life’s goal to get even.
Burn his fucking house down.
none, id promise any amount of money but mostly id just call the cops or whatever the proper authorities would be, so that they could track down the sicko
it’s an animal. I love animals, i have two cats, but it’s not a person.
animals are replaceable. it’s not worth dealing with someone who could be potentially dangerous. I’d feel bad, but someone that twisted… they could hurt me, and like i said, it’s not a person so there’s no reason to put my life in danger for a cat or a dog.call me horrible, but i do love animals, my life is just more important than my cat. I would miss them though.
I can not even phantom the idea of placing a value on an animal that I love very much. This is a very sad story. Poor dog, and it’s owner, going through hell and back.. not knowing, I hope they find the person and cause pain to him as well.
> I’d offer the person 1000 dollars, agree to meet wherever they wanted, in person, act all nice, then bang, he dead, dead, dead. You don’t ever steal my dog.
Peace to any but the dog-napper
We were dog-sitting for someone (for 2 months- lol) and they never came back until a year later. I didnt give the dog back, because my daughter was so attached to him. The lady took him, and my kid was DEVASTATED. at that time, I would have paid her whatever she wanted to keep him, so that I could stop my daughter ‘s hurt.
I’d hang up the phone.
I’m not sure I could see paying the ransom and that person getting away with everything working according to their plan. That’d just encourage them to do it more.
Whatever he wanted me to pay and I’d throw in a pair of broken knee-caps if I ever got a hold of him.
I’d give anything to have my pet back safe and sound.
None. Because I live in Baltimore city, if I had a pet that ended up missing, I know there is more than a good chance it was taken to use to train pit bulls, and probly was already dead, or in such a state that the money a vet would want to “save” the animal(whether it lived or not) would be too much for me to handle)
None. My dog is so annoying that they would insist that I take her back.
all the money i had. unless it was my moms dog. i hate that thing.
i don’t know but there are actually cults that sacrifice German Shepards so….
for a goldfish??… a quarter.
omg that is horrible. i dont get how people can hurt animals like that.