South African Kidnap Victim Saved by His Friends on Twitter

South African Kidnap Victim Saved by His Friends on Twitter

 

A South African victim of robbery and kidnapping was last night rescued after his girlfriend tweeted for help. The man from Johannesburg was hijacked and put in the boot of hiss car while the robbers looked for where to dump him and get away with the car.
The robbers forgot to take away his phone which he used to send his girlfriend, Lynn Peters, an SMS. Lynn then tweeted

Lynn Peters @onebadvillynn

Be on the look for DSS041GP my boyufriend has just been hijacked and is in the boot please RT

8 Apr 12

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7 of her friends retweeted the tweet including her friend Tanisha Reddy who alerted famous South African tweep, @Pigspotter, to retweet the message to his more than 100,000 followers composed also of a good number of private security companies.