Bad ideaThree men detained by LA police following staged kidnapping as part of music video shoot

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Staging a kidnapping as part of your music video may sound super cool (especially if you're a teenager), but doing so in public and not informing the police.. bad idea.
© Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

This is precisely what happened in Los Angeles earlier this week. Police received an emergency call from a concerned citizen who had seen two suspects pointing a gun at a victim whose hands were taped together. This all took place in the St Gabriel Mountains, located in a national forest just north of Los Angeles.

Police were quick to respond, and not particularly impressed to find that the whole affair was just part of a music video shoot. The gun was real, mind, and led to one person being arrested for a misdemeanour weapons charge.

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