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Papa, Can You Hear Me: Florida Man Kidnaps Self

Ridiculous Crime

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Is This a Church in the Wild?

David Hampton Butler Jr. spent the weekend driving around town with his jazzercise instructor and girlfriend. They decided to pay a man $30 million for their son's safe return. The kidnapper drops him off at a church, gets out of the car in the swamp so he can't get home. He then drives back into the swamps but is stopped by police who say they're looking for David Hampton III. "You were going to have one hell of a TikTok to tell," says Nicholas Cage.

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