Sometimes you just don’t want to spend Thursday night watching Must See TV with your girlfriend. Justin Sarten of Florence (Arizona, not Italy) knew he needed a night out. But how can you tell your girlfriend you want to go out with the boys without hurting feelings? Oh, just fake your own kidnapping.
I don’t know how these dudes, who have the internet and must have read about cases like this in the past, are not only trying to pull the old “I was out for a soda when some dudes just grabbed me and stuck me into the trunk of their car” on their significant others, but assuming that their loved ones won’t call the police? Personally, I’d be out combing the streets myself (after calling the police and the fire department and a pizza place) (because stress makes me hungry) if my partner told me he had been kidnapped, and that’s only partly because he’s the only driver in the family. I certainly wouldn’t read the “Help, I’ve been taken!” and respond with a “LOL, K.” And neither did Sarter’s girlfriend. who called both the authorities and his mother. And then Sarten also texted the police, because you can do that now. At least he didn’t call 911 because he was lost in a corn maze?