(by Ray Dixon)
“You’ve got some big testicles to pull that off, bro” (Charles Ramsey expressing surprise that his next-door neighbour was secretly keeping 3 women hostage)
I don’t know if there’s a reward for the rescue of the three women who had been held captive for 10 years in a Cleveland Ohio house but, if so, it just has to go to this bloke, next-door-neighbour Charles Ramsey.
And not just because Ramsey’s the one who answered the distressed calls of Amanda Berry and got her out of the house leading to a 911 call that then led to the rescue of the other two (and subsequent arrest of the owner and his two brothers), but also – and mainly – for this incredible and hilarious impromptu interview he gave to a TV journo soon after.
Make sure you watch it – it really picks up half way through. Ramsey’s a natural, almost a comedian. And, in my sincere opinion, he IS a true hero and deserves $1 million or more for what he’s done.
I saw this story yesterday and like You I was amazed at this chaps interview amazed too about the women surviving and remaining prisoners fro more than a decade. The perps if found guilty deserve the harshest punishment possible, sadly their crimes will not earn them a capital sanction even though it should.
“I had barbecues with this dude – I sang salsa with him”
Well it just goes to show that we may not really know our neighbours even when we have lived next to them for a long time. But I just love that fact that he did not hesitate to rescue the woman and her child.
Me too. He’s a hero – an accidental one, but a hero nonetheless.
This story (on Ramsey) just gets better. From ABC Online:
He sure is. Those words are so good.
Uh, oh – there are doubts about Charles’ story:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/is-cleveland-kidnapping-hero-charles-ramsey-a-fraud/story-fnd134gw-1226638430802
He has a “past”:
And he mightn’t be telling the truth about the rescue:
It was still a bloody good interview though.
Really in that run down neighbour hood you would not expect any angels, As you say though it was still a great sound grab the way that he described events
Over at the ABC they’re breathing a sigh of relief that there weren’t any Muslims involved.
GD—-I wonder what secrets we have deep down in your perverted hate filled life.
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well it will take at least a decade for him to be convicted and executed and he will have to spend all of that time either in solitary confinement or some other form of protective custody so there may be some justice in that, but it may be better for his victims if he is more quickly put down.
The sentence will be 30 years chained up in a dungeon with access only permitted by Ten-Ton-Tommie the poof.
Er….. SockPuppet..liked your punishment regimen…..although I thought maybe as an alternate, a weekly visit by Tommie’s
Ten-Ton Sister Frankie the Lesbian!!!!!!!!!