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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 10:40 AM
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Pizza guy is a hero--helped rescue kidnap/rape victim in Tennessee


Pizza deliveryman Chris Turner is photographed Friday, May 29, 2009 outside the Capelli's Pizza and Subs shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Turner helped rescue an Atlanta woman who had been kidnapped and raped when he saw her during a delivery to a rental cabin Tuesday, May 26, 2009 and called police. Turner said that he noticed the woman pop up from a couch while her abductor signed the credit card slip.
(AP Photo/Duncan Mansfield)

Deliveryman saves bound woman
Atlantan found in Tennessee cabin.Snellville man charged with rape, kidnapping.
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/05/30/pizzaman0530.html

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. —- A pizza deliveryman said he thought about his own wife’s safety when he saw an Atlanta woman bound with rope and begging for help inside a secluded cabin.

On Friday, police called the deliveryman a hero for rescuing the 24-year-old after she was allegedly kidnapped from Atlanta, driven to a cabin in the Smoky Mountains and raped.

“I kept thinking it could have been her,” Chris Turner said as he looked at his wife. “She could have been another one for his sex party.”

Police say David Joseph Jansen of Snellville abducted the woman as she was jogging around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in her subdivision on Montgomery Ferry Road in Atlanta.

He took her to a rented cabin in the mountains, where he bound her again, forced her to take some prescription pills, cut her clothes off and raped her twice, police said.

“It’s in the most isolated, desolate area of the county, way up in the mountains,” McCarter said.

The woman remained in the cabin for several hours until the deliveryman arrived to bring Jansen dinner —- an extra large supreme pizza, 10 hot wings and four 20 ounce-bottles of soda.

“He was signing the credit card slip when she popped up from the couch and showed me her tied hands and mouthed call 911,” said Turner, who has been delivering pizzas at Capelli’s Pizza in Gatlinburg for a month. “I said, ‘Are you for real?’ I didn’t believe her.”

Turner then climbed into the delivery van, where his wife, Laniesha, was waiting. They drove to neighbor Bill Toomey’s house, where they called police.

Toomey and the pizza deliveryman waited for about 20 minutes for deputies to arrive. Worried that Jansen would flee, Toomey blocked the cabin’s driveway with his truck.

Turner met the victim and her husband, who thanked him.

“I was doing my job and being a citizen,” the 32-year-old deliveryman said. “Plus, I got $13 off the delivery. That’s not bad for a half an hour.”



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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 10:52 AM
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1. The scariest part is this hero almost blew it
Edited on Sun May-31-09 10:56 AM by pnwmom
when the woman "popped up" from behind the couch and he said, "Are you for real?"
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 10:52 AM
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2. She was with the sicko for three days?
Maybe she fell in love with him.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5743986&mesg_id=5749012


She's very, very lucky. Most victims of monsters like this just disappear.
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Gwendolyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 11:51 AM
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4. You have issues and I feel sorry for you. Was Jack the Ripper inspired by mass-produced porn?

How bout Jeffrey Dahmer? Most experts agree that serial killers/rapists are inspired by their awful Mommy and Daddy experiences, and the abuse, whether physical or psychological imposed on them when they were young. That, or some inherent sociopathy they were born with.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 01:27 PM
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5. What?
Where are you getting this 'influenced' stuff from?

:wtf:

As for me having issues, and you feeling pity... riiiiight... sorry, no sale. You're just being shitty. Nice job of it though! :thumbsup:
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Gwendolyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 01:34 PM
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6. I'm sorry. I thought you were calling out my post as an example that people like me,

condoning porn and freedom of speech are responsible for the rape of women.

I'm not sure why you pointed to that post but there's nothing in news as of now to indicate that this person even watched it.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 01:36 PM
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7. Because it's fucking ludicrous
for anyone to compare Stockholm Syndrome to real love, and that's what the piece you posted claimed.

I wanted to raise its visibility so people could see the lunacy for themselves, and comment if they wished.


Thanks again for the faked concern. Much appreciated.



Fuck this place.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 10:53 AM
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3. Hey Chris!
You, sir, are my hero for the day. Perhaps the week. Way to be.
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