Emergency Prayer Request - Urgent - Page 3

Blubayou · #21 06-26-2008, 07:01 AM

Just saw this- Thank God he is OK- Stuff can be replaced-

rgcraig · #22 06-26-2008, 07:09 AM

CC1 - let me know if there is anything I can do!

Cindy · #23 06-26-2008, 07:31 AM

Sorry to hear he went through this trauma, and glad he is safe. Will be praying for them CC1.

Hoovie · #24 06-26-2008, 07:45 AM

CC1, This does sound like a nightmare!

Glad it is better than you feared at first!

rgcraig · #25 06-26-2008, 07:47 AM

Yesterday they found two 11 year olds breaking into homes stealing.......I know it's bad everywhere, but Memphis is very high in crime.

Ron · #26 06-26-2008, 08:27 AM

CC1 just saw this now.
I went to bed early yesterday.
Thank God it wasn't worse.

steve p · #27 06-26-2008, 09:23 AM

I spent a few years playing clubs on Beale. We always "carried" when we were there for our own protection. A few times we had to threaten people to leave us alone. It never felt safe. Once a pipe bomb was thrown into an outdoor bar next door to where we were playing. Our cars were broken into, my cache' of expensive cigars ( i smoked then) were stolen, cd players stolen etc. I finally realized it was too expensive for me to play there!!! AND, I gave my life to the Lord!! I went to Beale not long ago just to look around (daylight hours) and realized that God had delivered me from that mess.

Oh....and Mark?.....what you say in your posts are immature and downright insulting. NOW put me on the list for real!

Sherri · #28 06-26-2008, 09:24 AM

CC1--
Please let us know how he is!

CC1 · #29 06-26-2008, 09:33 AM

Here are a few more details. As he was getting in his car leaving Beale Street three men approached him and pulled out a gun.

They held the gun to his head and forced him to get in the car. They told him to drive to an ATM and take all of his money out. He told them that his wife was 7 months pregnant and that all he had was $60 in the ban. They said to take that out then.

He did and then the men, still holding the gun to his head, told him to drive them somewhere else in town. It was during this time that his wife called several times and he was telling her not to call back that it was a matter of life and death. I think he was afraid the assailants might get nervous that he was on the phone and just shoot him.

When they reached the place they told him to drive they got out and in the process stole his company laptop.

What is weird is that they left the $60 they had made him take out of the ATM machine.

I am just thankful he is alive because Memphis is a high crime rate area with a lot of
racial hate crime. More times than not someone in his situation would have been killed just on the basis of their skin color.

My SIL has a masters degree in business but not a lot of common sense sometimes. I would never have been on Beale Street alone at night. It is a pretty safe tourist area but only a couple of blocks from ghetto and even if you were safe on Beale Street walking alone back to your car in a dark parking lot a block or two away is just screaming "rob me!!!, kill me!!!".

The really bad thing is that this is the second company laptop he has had stolen in three months! Like a moron he actually checked his last one as baggage on a business trip that included changing planes in Atlanta, an airport known for problems with baggage handlers stealing things, sure enough when he got to Denver no laptop.

Sherri · #30 06-26-2008, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CC1

Here are a few more details. As he was getting in his car leaving Beale Street three men approached him and pulled out a gun.

They held the gun to his head and forced him to get in the car. They told him to drive to an ATM and take all of his money out. He told them that his wife was 7 months pregnant and that all he had was $60 in the ban. They said to take that out then.

He did and then the men, still holding the gun to his head, told him to drive them somewhere else in town. It was during this time that his wife called several times and he was telling her not to call back that it was a matter of life and death. I think he was afraid the assailants might get nervous that he was on the phone and just shoot him.

When they reached the place they told him to drive they got out and in the process stole his company laptop.

What is weird is that they left the $60 they had made him take out of the ATM machine.

I am just thankful he is alive because Memphis is a high crime rate area with a lot of
racial hate crime. More times than not someone in his situation would have been killed just on the basis of their skin color.

My SIL has a masters degree in business but not a lot of common sense sometimes. I would never have been on Beale Street alone at night. It is a pretty safe tourist area but only a couple of blocks from ghetto and even if you were safe on Beale Street walking alone back to your car in a dark parking lot a block or two away is just screaming "rob me!!!, kill me!!!".

The really bad thing is that this is the second company laptop he has had stolen in three months! Like a moron he actually checked his last one as baggage on a business trip that included changing planes in Atlanta, an airport known for problems with baggage handlers stealing things, sure enough when he got to Denver no laptop.

So was he really hurt and bleeding????