00:00Doct-taped and tie-strapped to a toilet bowl in a dark small room from Sunday night into Monday,
00:0777-year-old Taran Galai was given nothing to eat or drink by his kidnappers.
00:14He tells TV6 News he was grabbed at gunpoint by two men around 9.30 a.m. on Sunday
00:20after purchasing eye medication at a pharmacy in Pinal.
00:24I was scared, but I tried to make my mind strong.
00:30But it took me, I thought, at least they tell me they're going to kill me, right?
00:38It was the second time he's been through such a horrific ordeal, back in February.
00:43He says gunmen snatched him while in Coover, stole his Toyota Yaris, $5,000 cash he had on him,
00:50then kept him in a room before releasing him at 2 a.m.
00:54This time, however, the conditions were worse.
00:57He was just there until I opened the door, and he cried.
01:02He said, I got you this time and then.
01:05The whole night.
01:06I never sat on a chair.
01:08They made some fleas, smell events.
01:13They gave you a fool themselves?
01:14No fool.
01:15They tied my hands to the toilet bowl.
01:19It was done with duct tape.
01:20It was time and foot.
01:22The toilet bowl, I was trapped.
01:26Like I was almost in a jail.
01:28On Sunday, they took his bank card and withdrew $7,500,
01:34then spent over $7,400 across multiple groceries.
01:39His new vehicle was later found burnt in Claxton Bay.
01:43Then on Monday morning, they made him drain his bank account of $130,000.
02:04He was instructed to place the money in the trunk of their car parked a street away.
02:11Then they drove off, leaving him behind.
02:14He says praying to Jesus Christ and keeping calm likely saved his life.
02:19He says it's unfortunate that there are people who refuse to work
02:23and choose instead to pray on and live off others.
02:28People, their morality is not to do things to live.
02:35They're trying to live on a parasite.
02:39They could do things to help themselves.
02:40They could do things to live on laziness.
02:46Shaken and traumatized by the ordeal,
02:49he urged other elderly people going to financial institutions or otherwise
02:54to have someone accompany them and give alerts or updates along the way
02:59to ensure their safety.
03:01Cindy Raguba Tika Singh, TV6 News.
