Teens fake abductions led to a 911 call

A group of four 17-year-old teenage boys were reported to 911 by frantic neighbors on Northland, Kansas City, Mo. Monday afternoon. They reported that they saw a group in masks , pushed a teenager into a trunk at gunpoint. Capt. Rich Lockhart with Kansas City Police were chasing them all over the Northland for a half hour because people were flood calling 911 in belief that something bad had happened to somebody.

But when the cops caught up with the apparent bad guys, they let them go. It turns out that the group were just goofing around and trying to pull off a stupid stuff pranks ideas. The four teens had a clown mask, gorilla suit, and air pistol and were pretending to abduct each other. With a cell phone camera they planned to place the video online for possibly a movie-making dream.

It was sheer panic for anyone not in the know. One mom saw the ending near Shoal Creek Elementary. No arrests were made and police said the boys weren't doing anything illegal, but their parents were called. I don't even know why kids would even think to do that, I guess to be funny, to get on YouTube," Cannon said. And if nothing else, an official warning to not try this at home

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