Posted on 04/15/2005 2:31:56 PM PDT by nuconvert
Husband 'Kidnapped' by Poker Buddies
April 14, 2005
A California woman was sure her husband was being abducted — but it turned out just to be his buddies getting him to play poker.
It was close to midnight Saturday when the unnamed couple pulled into their driveway in Rialto, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, reports The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.
As they got out of their car, two strange men suddenly jumped out, threw the husband into a waiting vehicle and sped off.
The terrified woman immediately called 911.
"She didn't know who the guys were," Rialto Sgt. Carla McCullough told the newspaper. "She was all frantic. She thought her husband had been kidnapped."
City police and a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (search) helicopter scoured the area and quickly found the getaway car less than two miles away.
"We were treating it as a big deal," said McCullough. "But we get to the car, and the guy says, 'These are my friends — they just wanted me to play poker.'"
Police let the jokers go. No one answered the door at the couple's home the following afternoon.
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Man, I *hate* it when that happens to me.
(roadtrip!)
not too bright, eh
I wonder if I know these guys...
Well, he was probably deaf from all the yelling that went on the night before, and she was too hoarse to answer it.
Must be one heck of a bad poker player for his friends to go through all that.
Hey that es a gud idear.
Well, there went a keyboard...
Something about this doesn't sound right.
Surly the husband knew who was taking him.
How did he react when they "kidnapped" him?
Why did the wife respond the way she did?
I suspect the husband was in on this...
He is dead meat. Lol!
Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.
LOL!
He must have been their resident fish........
Everyone game needs one.
ok these comments above are really funny.
Still, it is so horrible for the wife to have been put through this kind of stress.
We kidnapped my brother for a small bachelor party. We were lying in wait as he and his fiance were taking his dog for a walk. It was pretty public and loud for a kidnapping. After we hogtied him and stuffed him in the car, we took off. As we were driving away, the cops were driving up. We didn't hang around to explain.
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