Posted on 04/30/2014 3:20:08 PM PDT by Theoria
Stephanie Wilson was reaching for a receipt inside a paper shopping bag from Saks Fifth Avenue when she found a letter pleading, "HELP HELP HELP."
The message, written in blue ink on white lined paper, appeared to be a desperate cry from a man who said he made the bag while being unfairly held in a Chinese prison factory more than 7,000 miles away.
"We are ill-treated and work like slaves for 13 hours every day producing these bags in bulk in the prison factory," continued the letter, which was tucked into the bottom of the bag. It ended, "Thanks and sorry to bother you."
"I read the letter and I just shook," said Wilson, 28, an Australian who lives in West Harlem. "I could not believe what I was reading."
The note, which Wilson found after buying a pair of Hunter rain boots at Saks in September 2012, was signed Tohnain Emmanuel Njong and was accompanied by a small passport-photo sized color picture of a man in an orange jacket, she said.
The letter, which also included a Yahoo email address on the back, triggered a hunt for the whereabouts of the mystery man.
(Excerpt) Read more at dnainfo.com ...
You don’t think it’s possible for someone from Cameroon to have been imprisoned in China? We do have these things called “aeroplanes” now...
It’s worth following that link just to see the picture of the guy (in the comments section) dressed up as a penis for Halloween.
wow, I wonder how many black chinamen know how to read and write Engrish?
Actually, I just typed in Ellebracht Slave Ranch, and linked to the second thing that came up..Guess I should've linked to Wikipedia.
Yup
Hope this helps! I too thought he certainly didn’t appear Chinese. From the article: “Unprompted, Njong described obscure details in the letter, like its mention of Samuel Eto’o, a professional soccer player on English premiere league team Chelsea, who like Njong is from Cameroon in West Africa.
He added that he wrote a total of five letters while he was behind bars — some in French that he hid in bags labeled with French words, and others in English, he said.
Njong, who is now 34, said he had been teaching English in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen when he was arrested in May 2011 and charged with fraud, a crime he said he never committed.”
I haven’t heard that song in what seems like forever.
I miss the early days of MTV! Good times.
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