Elizabeth Shoaf Story – 10 Days of Living Hell

Elizabeth Shoaf has a story to tell. Its one of those stories that is so powerful.  It encapsulates the courage of a fourteen year old and her family’s love that drove her to survive.

The story begins as a 26 year old pervert named Vinson Filyaw began stalking Elizabeth at the Bus stop.  He approached her dressed as a police officer and asked her to follow him.

According to Elizabeth Shoaf, being the obedient child she is she did as she was told by the policeman.  The walk seemed to last forever and he persuaded her to walk into a secluded area.  He led her towards playground area, but unknowing to her he had built an “in the ground” underground covered up bunker.

It is in this underground bunker  she spent 10 days, but to her it seemed like an eternity.  The remainder of her time there, it is reported that he chained her, repeatedly assaulted her and violated her everyday.

When it was realised that her daughter was missing, Elizabeth’s mother alerted and contacted the local police, apparently they did noty take her seriously and dismiss her concerns as over reacting as Elizabeth is just another runaway and they refused to raised the amber alert.

This obviously pissed off Elizabeth’s mother, so she took it on her own and began to make a plea for her daughter’safe return on national television.

Now unknowing to her, Elizabeth saw her mother’s plea for her safe return on television.  A TV was in the bunker where she was held in captivity.  Why was a TV underground?  I believe the pervert was trying to make the place homely, thats just my opinion.

On hearing that her parents and the entire county was looking for her Elizabeth came up with a plan to let them know she was ok.  She was able to obtain a cell phone from the kidnapper and she sent a few text messages to her mom letting her know that she was alright.  Her mom got one of her messages and so did the blasted media, they revealed how her mom received a text message from her daughter.  How stupid are those media people. 

This revelation that his captive somehow got a message out to the world made Vinson angry and so too was Elizabeth, she was very afraid that her kidnapper would be angry and hurt her even more.

To her surprise the her kidnapper was more scared of being caught, that he ask her what to do!!  Elizabeth told him to allow her to run away, and he let her go.

The next day and she was found.

10 days had passed by and she was finally free.

Vinson Filyaw had been caught and sentenced to 421 years in prison.

Patrick Swayze Has Pancreatic Cancer
Dirty Dancing and Ghost star Patrick Swayze  55, is receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer and is currently undergoing treatment.  The actor Patrick Swayze was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs, according to a report in National Enquirer of Thursday 6th March.

On hearing this news I was devastated.  I tuned in to every TV station and that item was the news of the day.  It was a sad welcome relieve to the political news that have been bombarding my tv screen for the past 48 hrs.

These are some of the headlines I saw online tonight
Patrick Swayze Fighting Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer Hits Patrick Swayze: 5 Weeks to Live
Patrick Swayze Dying from Pancreatic Cancer
Treatment Combo for Pancreatic Cancer Has Limited Benefit
Patrick Swayze On Deathbed!
Why does everyone want Patrick Swayze to die?

There were so many headlines but all saying the same thing.  So my wife went out to buy the Ghost DVD, that movie makes her cry and I know she is going to bawl louder this time around.

Dustin Hamilton Rants About Metro North

The Service on all three main lines of the Metro-North Railroad — the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines — was suspended at 3:15 p.m. after a vacant five-story building collapsed at 124th Street and Park Avenue, one block from the 125th Street station in Harlem, where all three lines stop on their way to and from Grand Central Terminal.

It took the officials  more than 1 and a half  hours to restore the rail service Service was restored starting at 4:45 p.m., starting with a 3:50 p.m. Hudson Line train bound for Croton-Harmon, which left Grand Central about an hour after its scheduled departure. By then, an untold number of trains and passengers had been inconvenienced, with many passengers told to find alternative means of travel.

Although there were no reports of any injuries.  There were reports of parts of the building started falling.

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