Here’s the deal - I’m going to sneak up behind you, drop a sack over your head, and spirit you away to a secure location as I await the ransom payment from your family and/or friends.
What can I expect to get for you? The risk has to be worth the reward, of course. And please, don’t deliberately undervalue yourself - remember you are a worthy and valuable person!!!
No actual kidnapping will take place. No, really. I promise. This is just a drill.
I’d choose Cecil himself, not because the teeming millions might each put a dollar towards ransom, but because until ransom is paid, i would learn so much I could break out of a life of crime.
Kinda depends on how “persuasive” you can be with your victim.
If you can “persuade” them to make you their life insurance beneficiary, or empty their financial accounts into your BitCoin wallet, that’s one case. Choose whoever you think is richest.
OTOH, if you need to rely on family or friends doing the logistics of raising and delivering the ransom, you might prefer somebody who actually has family and friends so empowered. Which ain’t me. Hint hint.
I nominate FairyChatDad. He can’t run very fast, and you already know what / how to feed him. Best of all, unlike @Elmer_J.Fudd who only claims to have a yacht, we know FCD really does have one. So he must be rich. You’re probably already on all his accounts and will get his life insurance too, so no especial “persuasion” will be required.
Pfffft - I already have access to all his accounts and he has no idea how to get to them - he leaves all that to me. And apart from cousins in Indiana, the only family he has left is a younger brother living on less than $1000 SS and they barely talk, so nothing worth going after there. And our daughter has 2 kids, 2 cats, and a dog, so she can’t manage much ransom. So I’d end up paying myself - where’s the reward in that?
Sheesh, think before you make inane suggestions, dude!
I doubt any of us are rich enough to carry kidnapping insurance, but that’s who you want to snatch. The person with a big company ready to bail them out with wads of cash.
(I assume one of the policy conditions is that you don’t tell anyone you have it, though, so it might be hard to pick the right victim.)
My only surviving immediate family member is my brother, and he’s broke. He might offer to pray for you, if he responds at all. Maybe my dog would miss me, but he’s easily won over with food.
I’m not worth much. I’m overweight, so carrying me around will be a problem - and you will have to carry me, because I’ll go limp on you from the beginning. Plus I talk and complain a lot, so you’ll soon feel like paying my family to take me back.