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In an attempt to skip online lectures, a student staged his own abduction with the help of his friends and a video of the incident is making the rounds of the internet.
The undated video, according to reports was originally posted on TikTok and shows a professor conducting an online class at an undisclosed location, while a group of students listen to him.
But in one of the frames, a couple of masked ‘intruders’ are seen barging into a student’s room from behind and then
‘kidnapping’ him.
“Did you just see Tyler get kidnapped?” the professor asks, while the rest of the students giggle.
Watch the video here:
https://twitter.com/Blayofficial/status/1308158981853138950
After many commenters suggested that Tyler might actually have been kidnapped, the boy and his ‘kidnappers’ put out another video explaining that it was a prank and they were safe, reported Fox News.
However, many have criticised the staging of a kidnapping given there was an actual case where intruders barged into a student’s house while online classes were going on.
Take a look at how people reacted to the video:
https://twitter.com/misssv4she/status/1308283640430751744
https://twitter.com/nysendolo2/status/1308465475878354944
https://twitter.com/bombay_ray/status/1308456422833782785
https://twitter.com/baptist0007/status/1308386366556958721
Since being shared on Twitter, the video has been viewed over 3 million times.
