{"id":6631,"date":"2009-12-08T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2009-12-08T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:11:03","slug":"the-revenge-of-the-superannuated-sopranos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-revenge-of-the-superannuated-sopranos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revenge of the Superannuated Sopranos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1234176\/The-OAP-mob-Gang-geriatrics-accused-kidnapping-torturing-financial-advisor-losing-fortunes-recession.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> isn\u2019t funny; I am not laughing. Really.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The OAP mob: Gang of geriatrics charged with kidnapping and torturing financial advisor after losing fortunes in recession<\/p>\n<p>Formal charges were laid today against a gang of pensioners accused of kidnapping and torturing their financial adviser when their fortunes dipped due to the global crisis.<\/p>\n<p>American-born James Amburn, 56, claims he was ambushed outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, bound with masking tape and bundled into a car boot after being bashed over the head with the Zimmer frame of one of his elderly kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath,\u2019 said Mr Amburn, who was allegedly driven to the Bavarian lakeside home of one of the gang who lost close to \u00a32million&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, the Swiss bank telephoned police in Germany and an armed team of special SEK commandos was scrambled and the house was stormed.<\/p>\n<p>A physician had to be on hand to help the captors into police vans because of their various infirmities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t funny; I am not laughing. Really. The OAP mob: Gang of geriatrics charged with kidnapping and torturing financial advisor after losing fortunes in recession Formal charges were laid today against a gang of pensioners accused of kidnapping and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-revenge-of-the-superannuated-sopranos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeremiah-179"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}