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Trigger warning kidnappings

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DarcieRV · 15/10/2025 00:09

I never usually scroll the newspapers online as I can't really handle a lot of anxiety inducing news.
But I just did and I immediately saw 2 videos of kidnappings on our streets.
One is from yesterday of a teenage girl in Swindon showing attempted kidnap of her whilst walking along the street.
One is from Sunday of a teenage girl showing an attempted kidnap in Ladypool road, Birmingham.
They are both real videos.
I am completely and utterly shell-shocked at what I have just watched and I'm now having a massive anxiety attack.
You can search the videos but there is a trigger warning - please don't watch if it might trigger you.
We need to know about this though. How are these two attacks not all over the national news??

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RedNine · 15/10/2025 00:18

Can you set your device to not auto-play videos? I'm so sorry you saw something so disturbing. I haven't seen so can't comment.

Edited to make sense.

Take care.

HelenaWaiting · 15/10/2025 00:20

In both cases these were attempted abductions that were foiled when members of the public intervened. In both cases the perpetrators were very quickly arrested. There is a considerable period of time between the two - the Swindon perpetrator is already on trial. I'm not sure why you're trying to stir a panic over these.

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