kept in a metal shipping container, blindfolded and immobilized by hand and foot shackles and duct tape that bound his naked body to a stretcher.

Think about her bound with duct tape. With a gag in her mouth, as the defendant walks toward her with a plastic garbage bag.

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

The duct tape crosses. That's what did it.

She's a professional duct tape cutter.

I'm trying to imagine a life without duct tape. It's too terrible to contemplate.