7:43 p.m. | 2003-04-05 Boy, Their Parents Must Be Proud. I bring you the story of a crime that was recently committed that is, well, rather bizarre in its execution. It was committed by a 20-year-old woman (W) and a 19-year-old man (M) against a 39-year-old man (V). Apparently, they all kinda knew each other, and W was pissed at V because he had once burned her on her arm. So, W and M asked V if he would help them move from a motel to an abandoned juvenile detention facility where they planned on staying. V agreed. Unbeknownst to V, W and M were plotting to harm him. Once there, W and M tricked V into entering an old detention room and then slammed the steel door shut behind him. The door automatically locked. W and M then left. V spent four hours yelling for help. However, the room was soundproof. Finally, V stood on a table and held a lighter to an overhead sprinkler hoping it would trigger an alarm. The sprinkler went off, but no alarm sounded because the electricity had been turned off for several years. About eight hours later, W and M returned and told V they would release him if he gave them his car keys, money and ATM card. When V refused, W and M sealed the cracks around the door so the water from the sprinklers would fill the room. When the water got up to V�s neck, he agreed to give up the requested items. Without releasing V, W and M unsealed the door, left in V�s car, withdrew money from his bank account and make a purchase. When day two came around, V spent most of it screaming for help, while W and M tried to come up with ways to dispose of V�s body once he was dead. They decided that, if he wasn�t dead when they returned, they would gas him to death. V was still alive so W and M got two garden hoses and some duct tape. They once again sealed the door, hooked the hoses to the tailpipe of V�s car, and ran the hose into an air conditioning vent just above the door. They let the engine run for a � hour before abandoning that idea. Good move there as the vent didn�t even go into that room. Of course, they didn�t realize that. Early in the morning of the third day, W and M left again. They stopped at a gas station and W placed a note about V�s predicament in the restroom. To make sure the note was found, W told the gas station clerk that the restroom needed to be cleaned. The clerk checked the restroom, found the note and called the cops. An officer was at the gas station taking a report when W and M drove by. They were stopped and arrested for suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, credit car fraud and vehicle theft. Meanwhile, other officers discovered V in the locked room. He had been held for 40 hours, 36 of which were spent being showered with water from the sprinklers. He was treated for hypothermia and released. Since this incident, all of the lockable doors at the abandoned facility have been removed and security has been increased until the building can be demolished. I don�t know about you, but, if I was W, I think I could have found a thousand different ways to communicate my anger at V that would�ve been much easier and wouldn�t have landed me in jail. your thoughts? seed flower