Lake Lover wrote: In fact anyone going to a meeting for this kidnapping may find himself being the victim target of a couple of kidnappers, rather than a 14y.o. Wouldn't that be fun.
Indeed, some people might actually enjoy that - provided the motives of the kidnappers were not
too sinister. But that's another story.
It's possible a 14-year old would not understand the consequences of being kidnapped. When I was 14, my cousins arranged for me to be kidnapped by some boys who lived nearby they knew all their lives (but whom I'd never met except the one closest my age briefly at school). They tied me up in what was by then a fairly routine matter for us but out in the woods away from the house (not quite so routine) and then just left me there (not routine at all). Tuned out they'd deliberately left me at a pre-arranged rendezvous point where the other boys could easily find me and 'kidnap' me.
Being 14 at the time, I wasn't
too worried though. I was still naive enough to be sure that boys more or less my own age wouldn't
really hurt me or keep me captive for long, and I think deep down inside I was certain that this was a deliberate set-up by my cousins (I already knew how devious they were by this time) and i knew they wouldn't (deliberately) put me into a truly dangerous situation.
Well, after promising me some torture when they returned and then locking me inside a barn for several hours, they came back with my cousins and - after some (consensual) torture they let me go. They would have let me go at any time had I showed signs of stress or panic, but though I was obviously somewhat apprehensive I apparently took it so well they actually took the scheme further than they had originally planned. So it turned out I was right, I was safe. Because my cousins knew what they were doing. It was a hare-brained scheme, yes; but it was fun, was evidently well-planned, and it worked out well... unlike that other boy I knew who wanted to be kidnapped right out of his house in the middle of the night.
Btw I've written stories about some of my adolescent TUGs some time ago; including these two incidents - though with considerably exaggerated details, I admit. The actual incidents were far less exciting than they 'sound' in print.
Now, had they arranged for some
adults to kidnap me, i likely would've had a severe heart attack in my panic! Even at 14, I knew that adults were capable of doing all sorts of horrible things to a kid. And this was in 1970 - before Jeffrey Dalmer and John Wayne Gacy and people like them entered into my awareness. I'd have never considered letting an adult kidnap me for a single moment. Hell, I
still wouldn't; even if it was someone I knew well! I don't know anyone I trust
that much!
I'm probably sending mixed messages here, but the point is the situations i experienced involved people who already knew one another very well. I was very, very different from arranging for a kidnap by a total stranger. They were strangers to me yes; but I'm not the one who arranged the details.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...