Cut and paste my entry on another thread: think of it as Village Gossip on speed.........
Apparently this happened to my DNephew........Bare with me
My DSis got a hysterical text (from another school Mum) that he'd been bundled into a car by a foreigner.
DSis called him immediately: 'Where are you?'
'In the car with Uncle Buuny, why?'
'We're not late you know we're on our way to collect you now!' said in that offended tone that only teenagers can do.
DSis can hear Uncle Buuny in the background and then they pull up to pick her up on the way to meet the rest of us for dinner.
So she calls the woman back to say actually he's fine; and to find out what police officer she spoke to to tell them if something has happened it wasn't DN.
Other Woman answers the call immediately is wailing 'Oh my God Oh My God this is so awful I can't believe this would happen here' Sis couldn't get a word in; finally gets her to shut up, tells her DN is fine; asks who at the station did she talk to you......
She hadn't called the police; just Sis and a pile of other school Mums & Dads. Sis tries to confirm what 'happened' OSM (Other School Mum) claims that it was definitely DN;
DN confirms he saw and even waved goodbye to her.
It was definitely a van (so it's changed already) actually it was an estate car.
And it was definitely a foreigner well Uncle Buuny is brown but he's a British in fact more so that DSis or I.
Sis goes 'well you need to call all of them back and tell them you were wrong and he's fine.'
This is the best bit' OSM states 'Well I KNOW what I saw'
DSis & BIL spent the rest of the night getting increasingly hysterical phone calls from people in the village with increasing changed 'details'
So by the end of the night DN had had a bag thrown over his head; and been dragged kicking and screaming into a van (of various colours) by no less than 3 swarthy looking men. . . .
The village facebook page was full of people claiming to have seen said van & men driving around the school.
This happened about 3 years ago; the 'fact' that there was an attempted abduction from XXX school is still been told to new starter parents. The story has now mutated to OSM bravely screaming and running them off and OH MY GOD what would have happened if she hadn't been there. . . ('cause DN being fine/well and clearly not abducted kind of ruins it all)
We know it's still doing the rounds as younger DN started at the school last year and Sis was told the story in the playground they even used DN unusual first name.
Shes tried to point out it's crap, but get told she's wrong. . . and that it's better to be safe.