DH and I drove to my favorite breeder's place this afternoon to pick up a banty to keep my little 10-week old Brahma pullet company, as she can't go in the pen with the older girls since they peck her to bloody bits.
I phoned this morning and all was fine.
We got there around 2pm and the poor man was shaking like a leaf, kept apologizing for his state of utter nerves:
30 minutes before we arrived, he got an anonymous phone call from a guy shouting expletitives and demanding a ransom for his daughter if he ever wanted to see her alive again.
The state police were on their way, he was waiting and just about to have a heart attack from stress
Poor man, he and his lady are such sweethearts, I cannot imagine anyone wanting them harm??? They keep to themselves and live in the middle of nowhere, wth?
His daughter lives near the city with his ex-wife, who owns a bar... and the daughter works there. She was last seen this morning on her way to work (to clean the place or do book-keeping, I don't know). He had to call his ex-wife to tell her about the kidnapping call, she knew nothing about the situation!
So the police force is on it, it's a crime to utter death threats and oh, I can't believe such things HAPPEN! If I hadn't been there and heard things for myself, I would have thought it was a joke. But it's not.
In all of this he gave me a beautiful bantam pullet (japanese mix, I think?), refused any payment, can you believe it?
I told him I'd call tomorrow night for news, I'm worried sick for him. He was on the verge of tears the whole time we were there.
Great way to spend a cold, snowy Sunday before Christmas...
(please send any spare prayers his way, I really care for this kind soul and am petrified to get bad news)
I phoned this morning and all was fine.
We got there around 2pm and the poor man was shaking like a leaf, kept apologizing for his state of utter nerves:
30 minutes before we arrived, he got an anonymous phone call from a guy shouting expletitives and demanding a ransom for his daughter if he ever wanted to see her alive again.
The state police were on their way, he was waiting and just about to have a heart attack from stress
Poor man, he and his lady are such sweethearts, I cannot imagine anyone wanting them harm??? They keep to themselves and live in the middle of nowhere, wth?
His daughter lives near the city with his ex-wife, who owns a bar... and the daughter works there. She was last seen this morning on her way to work (to clean the place or do book-keeping, I don't know). He had to call his ex-wife to tell her about the kidnapping call, she knew nothing about the situation!
So the police force is on it, it's a crime to utter death threats and oh, I can't believe such things HAPPEN! If I hadn't been there and heard things for myself, I would have thought it was a joke. But it's not.
In all of this he gave me a beautiful bantam pullet (japanese mix, I think?), refused any payment, can you believe it?
I told him I'd call tomorrow night for news, I'm worried sick for him. He was on the verge of tears the whole time we were there.
Great way to spend a cold, snowy Sunday before Christmas...
(please send any spare prayers his way, I really care for this kind soul and am petrified to get bad news)
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