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A Pennsylvania teenager says it should have been obvious to anyone that the YouTube stunt he and three pals filmed in a store parking lot was no kidnapping. The four were pulled over by police in Whitehall during the weekend after a shopper called 911 to report a person being tied up and thrown into a car trunk in the parking lot of the local Kmart. It turned out the alleged kidnappers and the kid in the trunk wrapped in plastic wrap were all on the same team and had been working out a stunt to be posted online. "We were laughing the whole time," Aaron Coutumas, 19, of North Whitehall Township told The (Allentown) Morning Call. "I couldn't keep a straight face. I thought it was obvious we were goofing around." The Morning Call said Wednesday Coutumas and friends were the only ones laughing. The witness and police took the matter seriously, as did the boys' parents, who had to show up at the scene and claim their Internet auteurs. "They weren't happy," Coutumas said. "No parent would be happy seeing their kids on the curb with seven cop cars around them."
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