Three men forced another man bound with duct tape into the trunk of a car at gunpoint Thursday and drove off. Then the cameras stopped rolling.
The “kidnapping” turned out to be a film project, undertaken by several men in their early 20s. A stunned witness, unaware the event was staged, called police to the scene of the apparent abduction.
….Almost exactly a year ago five men, one of whom had a fake gun, found themselves staring at real firearms when police interrupted their UW film class project on the top level of a downtown parking ramp. They were each cited for disorderly conduct and fined $412.