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He had the but of the gun at the bottom of my spine.
My hands..... up.
Sweat began to pour down my back....
I watched....
Six young guys.... Around my age.....
Came in....
Hands behinds their heads...
Caked with sweat and dust....
Shirts soaked....
They collapsed on the wooden floor.
Exhausted.
"Lot's of rope here," one said.
"Good."
The one with the gun in my back....
Turn around.....
I did....
"You know how to tie up?"
"Tie up?"
"Yeah asshole, tie up these guys here. frtiggin tight?"
"I can. Why do you want them tied up?" I asked.
The but of the gun smashed into my gut."
"None of your fucking business. Now get that barn rope and roped these guys up tight!"
I wondered who they were, why they were abducted..."
He cocked the gun.
"Guys, don't make this difficult. Please put your hands behind your backs."
The six turned onto their bellies on the barn floor....
and surrendered their arms to me as I began to bind and gag them."
I would soon learn the ropes myself.
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I knew this dude had no choice but to tie us up.
We had stripped of our shirts.
Cut them into strips.
Parts I had to use as a blindfold.
The rest I balled up and put in my mouth.
I had put my arms behind my back.
I felt the rope for the first time on my crossed wrists.
Rough rope. Jagged edges. They made him pull and pull until my hands felt they would explode.
I wiggled my fingers. They were quickly numb.
He was told to tie rope around my eyes, and between my teeth, around my head.
Then we went down to my feet and roped up my ankles.
I lay there, prone, as my buddies were tied up.
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When the six of us were bound, he made him do a second roping on us.
Someone grabbed my forearms and pushed them together behind me. My body contorted and I screamed. My arms were roped, just above my elbows. Then the middle of my lower arms were tied. Finally he weaved around my upper arms, forcing my upper arms as close as them could, a mere several inches of the barn rope between them.
Going down to my legs tied them just above my knees.
He turned me onto my back. Again I screamed. Someone kicked me in the head. I was nauseous, in agony, sweat pouring out of every pore of my body.
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I was manhandled to kneel.
Pushed forward I smashed into one of my buddies.
We were chest to chest.
I could smell his breath.
Our torsos were roped together, tightly forcing my already tortured arms into my spine.
Pushed onto our sides, we came crashing hard on the floor. Our legs were tied together, around our thighs and ankles.
I wondered who it was I was feeling....
His breath quick and shallow from his torture, his sweat mixing with mind.
I shivered in terror.
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We were dragged across the floor by our feet.
They made us stand. We lost balance and crashed to laughter.
Again standing, ropes dropped from the cross beams in the ceiling. And end was put between my biceps, around the rope between them. I was pulled up so I was straight, my feet flat on the floor. The end was tied around my neck.
I could hear them doing it to my friend tied to me.
I knew that, if either of us dropped from exhaustion, we would hang each other.
I could not take it any more.
I started to work the ropes......
No way. Too tight.
I felt my friends heart pounding his chest against mine.
Fast pounding.
Terror.
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When I had finished
hanging up these captives...
They tied me.
The same as the others.
I thought I would die when my elbows touched.
Having nobody to bind me too, they dropped the rope, put it between my biceps, and pulled. My body bent over, my arms pulled up and out behind my back. My shoulders left the joint. I screamed, got kicked in my balls, and did everything I could to stand on my bound feet, knowing, if I drooped, I could rip my arms from my body.
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We were told we were going to die unless a ransom was paid.
They cut the rope from my eyes, and removed the blindfold.
I saw Mike's face looking into mine.
The camera was up close to the terror in my eyes.
I was told to bent my head back so I would not choke.
Mike and I were screaming.
They heaved us up off the ground.
The ropes between my arms held by the bindings around our two bodies. My neck was tight, but not enough to choke unless I moved the slightest.
I looked at the poor dude who bound us, terror on his face as they pulled in up off the ground by his arms. They went out straight, then up, rotating more than he body could allow. His head was bent down. I looked at the sweat dripping from his brow onto the floor.
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Two months latter....
Here they come!
The six guys I bound got out of the car.
We all embraced.
We had spoken millions of times by now on Skype, but this was our first face-to-face...
They waisted no time.....
I was wrestled down to the ground. The six of them had hands on me, binding me tight with rope.
Taping my head.
They ripped open my shirt.
I heard them draw lots.
More fighting sound, until I felt some one against my chest.
"It's Colby," I was told.
We were carried into the barn...