Boy fakes own kidnapping to stop parents from meeting teacher
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. An
11-year-old Spanish boy faked his own kidnapping, according to the U.K.'s
Guardian, because his mom and dad were set to meet his teacher later that
day—and he didn't want to be around for the aftermath.
Needless to say, things didn't go as planned. The boy
sent a text message to his father—a police officer in the northern town of
Xinzo de Limia—saying he had been kidnapped and stuffed in the back of a car.
His father called him immediately. The boy said he didn't know where he was
being taken. He then faked phone static and hung up. Chaos ensued.
A manhunt was launched with roadblocks, and news reports
and APB alerts were sent out. Law enforcement was even watching the Portugal
border in case the phantom kidnapper tried to cross over. The charade proceeded
for several hours until the father noticed that the keys to the family's other
apartment were missing. The father went to the second residence and found his
son, safe and sound.
The boy apparently had been terrified about the
parent-teacher conference. "The child’s poor school scores in recent weeks
appear to explain a form of behavior that no one in Xinzo could
understand," the Guardian said, explaining the quote was from a report in
Spain’s Voz de Galicia newspaper.
Fortunately for the boy, the police are not pressing
charges, calling the incident a prank gone wrong. We're guessing his parents
might not be so forgiving.
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