Waiting for the ropes

 

"They made us strip to the waist, remove our shoes and socks, empty our pockets, smash our phones, and face the wall.

We knew we were going to be tied up.

The sweat began to trickle down our chests and from our arm pits as we waited.....

They toyed with us....

Taking tape and circling it around our heads covering our eyes...

Pushing our socks into our mouths and taping a tight gag...

Taking the rope they would tie us with and rubbing it on our arms, like sandpaper, scratching our skin and pulling out the hairs.

I crossed my wrists behind my back.  Two of them worked together to bind me.

At my wrists, elbows and biceps they twisted the ropes, then they would pull the ends like a tug-of-war...

...the tightness was torture.

Blood squirted from my elbows and wrists...

...were my arms were tied, they circled my chest and abs, squeezing my forearms into my spine.

Then they tied my ankles, put me in a choke hold, and pounded my gut until my legs buckled.

Dumped in the back of a truck, we were taken away.

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They pulled the tape off Billy's head, and dragged him in front of a camera.

"Please quickly pay the ransom.

We have been beaten and tied up.

Our arms and wrists are bleeding from the tight ropes.

If you don't....

The screen went dark... with a still of Ryan.....

...being beat up.

072621 JO Pic of the week: TERROR!

 

071921 JO Pic of the week: Ransom Photos

 

The four states of helplessness

Stage 1 - Wrists

Stage 2 - Tape

Stage 3 - Arms

Stage 4 - Controlled

 

Thirty Million Dollars

 

Ryan lay there as they roped his arms and legs.  He quickly realized they knew what they were doing... rough rope that hurt the skin, elbows, forearms and wrists lashed together.... biceps weaved with the rope and pulled just a few inches apart.  Legs being roped around his thighs, knees, calves and ankles.  His large toes tied together.  

He fought when they shoved his socks down his throat and roped them firmly in place with ropes between his teeth and around his head.

They bent his legs, bound his ankles to his wrists, and put a thick rope under his knees.  Then they hoisted him up, hanging up side down, hogtied.

Their sweat puddled on the floor below them.

The ropes cut deep into muscle and flesh burning their skin.

Cramps tortured their thighs and upper arms.

Their desperate screams were met with a beating.

 

They were being live streamed.

They kidnappers demanded $30 million dollars.

Someone took a knife and played with the hairs on Palo's belly and chest.

Another took a rod and beat the soles of his feet.

The video of the tortured boys finally went black...

But the sound of their moans continued....

071221 JO Pic of the week: 24 hour challenge

 

The Final Ordeal

 

"I'll loose the shirt.  We're sorry.  We didn't know we were on your land.

What are you going to do?  Tie us up and kidnap us?"

"They marched us for hours in a single column through the woods.  Our arms painfully cuffed behind our backs, the plastic cuffs above our elbows cutting into our skin.  Sweat covered our torso.  Our necks were tethered together by a long rope."

"When we reached our destination we were hogtied with cuffs around our ankles and then cuffed to our wrists.  It was impossible to escape.  They left us, and our final ordeal began.

070521 JO Pic of the week: "Why am I tied up?"