Tomás+Weiss

By Tomás Weiss

It was a cloudy day on November 1996 in Columbia, USA. I was at home, watching the final of the AF Cup between Manchester United Vs. Chelsea FC. I heard a knock on the door. I called my mom to open the door, but she didn’t answer so I opened the door and I got a big surprise…

There was a group of bad men. The first one had orange hair and earrings. He said his name was Maurinio. He said: “This is a hold up! I’ve put a bomb in your body while you were sleeping. It will explode if you don’t get US$ 1,000,000 in 18 days”.

I couldn’t believe it! During the first 6 days I could gather US$ 2,000 cutting the grass, cleaning homes, etc. It was day 16 and I got a little nervous because I had only US$ 600,000…

It was the last day… I was changing clothes when I told to myself: “Hey! With the money I have, I could have an operation and take out the bomb!”

That was what I did. When the operation was finished, I felt so much better! There were the police who told me that with the bomb, they had located the robbers.

They were Maurinio and Chimangueta. At the end they both died at the electric chair.

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