89-Year-Old Helps Two Teenagers, Gets Kidnapped In Return

Margaret Smith is a simple 89-year-old. She’s just living her life. She decided to help two teenagers, who thanked her by locking her in the trunk of her car for two days.

According to Alyssa Newcomb and Gio Benitez of Good Morning America:

Smith had stopped at the Chicken Man Convenience Store in Milford, Del., for a Butter Pecan ice cream cone when two teenage girls approached her and asked for a ride across town. “I decided not to, then I said, ‘Well, a good deed,’” Smith said. After driving around for a while, Smith said the girls snatched her car keys and stuffed her in the trunk of her Buick.

“The way they drove off flying, I didn’t think nobody would ever find me,” she said. “I just had to pray about and hope that I’d be found.” Smith spent the next two days crammed in the trunk, without food, water and her blood pressure medication. She said the only time the girls opened the trunk was to rob her of the cash she was carrying. “I was very tired, cold, hungry, scared,” Smith said. “I didn’t know what to expect.”

After spending 48 hours locked in her trunk, Smith’s kidnappers inexplicably decided to dump her in a remote cemetery.

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Delaware State Police found Smith’s car days later and arrested and charged five teenagers inside. All are believed to have some involvement in the kidnapping, robbery and theft, ABC News’ Philadelphia affiliate WPVI reported.

Four of the teens, ranging in age from 14 to 17, are being charged as adults, while a fifth faces receiving stolen property and conspiracy charges as a minor.

Yet, the octangenerian is unshaken in her belief that “you got to be kind to other people if you want somebody to be kind to you.” So, in other words, she said:

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