Older Man Is Fired 2 Hours after Taking Store Job, Gets $70K for Wife’s Treatment the Next Day – Story of the Day

Billy, a 70-year-old veteran, was fired from his new supermarket job for exposing his manager’s deceit to a customer. Desperate for money to fund his wife’s urgent surgery, he found $70,000 and a cryptic note in his mailbox the next day, promising more money if he showed up at a park at midnight.

At the park, masked men kidnapped him and brought him to an abandoned factory, where he and nine others were forced into a deadly survival game. Their first task: unlock themselves from chains within 10 minutes using a thousand dangling keys. Billy’s leadership helped most escape, but a woman was shot when time ran out.

Realizing the stakes, Billy devised a daring escape plan. He overpowered a guard, donned his uniform, and maneuvered through the facility, narrowly avoiding detection. His discovery of surveillance footage showing his fellow captives’ fates left him horrified, and he knew he had to act fast before it was too late.