Boy voluntarily entered car ‘so that the other youth could record the interaction,’ Airdrie RCMP say

A 12-year-old boy escaped from the car of an alleged abductor that he and a group of other children arranged to meet as part of a “catch a predator scheme” they had devised on the Snapchat app, according to Alberta RCMP, who are strongly discouraging this type of vigilante activity.

There are so many ways this could go wrong.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    10·
    2 days ago

    “Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned,” said RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney.

    I really want to know how they had “planned” it to go instead.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      2 days ago

      Wild guess: like it does in all the videos they watched, where the people filming are adults that can’t be as easily overpowered, probably come in a group, maybe have legal provision for weapons, and have a level of street smarts that can’t be learned from Fortnight (like “don’t get in the car”).