Name: A Kidnapping Hoax in New York City | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-15T06:12:58.000Z
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saying a 16-year-old had been kidnapped in the Bronx.

And although this was a scary story for a while,

it turns out there was no actual kidnapping.

What appeared to have been a violent kidnapping

NEWSWOMAN: Two men jump out of a car in the Bronx

as she walked down the sidewalk next to her mother.

NEWSWOMAN 2: Well, after a frantic day of searching,

the girl admitted she staged her own abduction

She told detectives that her mother was too protective.

The two had reportedly argued about a plan

NEWSWOMAN: A mother's worst nightmare is over

while there's a chance her daughter's legal troubles

but now she's saying she faked her own kidnapping.

Yeah. Because you'll be like, "I faked my kidnapping."

And they'll be like, "But your funeral will be real, huh?"

is because there are real cases of sex trafficking

and people are worried that this kind of story

would undermine some of those stories, you know?

Not to mention a fake kidnapping will really confuse Liam Neeson.

You know? Yeah, 'cause every time he gets a call,

"Wait, is this... Is this a real one this time?

"Is this my daughter putting me on speakerphone

at a slumber party? I'm gonna be so pissed."

And, by the way, uh, you know what I don't understand?

Whenever someone goes missing, we all get an Amber Alert.

'Cause now some of us are still on the streets looking, huh?

Just, like, running around like, "Aha! Green Honda Civic.

Person's like, "What? That girl came back the same day."

Here's what should happen. I think if someone's kidnapped,

we should all get a Jussie Smollett Alert, okay?

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A Kidnapping Hoax in New York City | The Daily Show

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