Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Police: Kidnapping was bachelor party BORAS, Sweden, July 21 (UPI) -- Swedish police investigating an abduction said they discovered the kidnapping was merely a bachelor party prank. Advertisement Police in Boras issued a public appeal Wednesday for information on the Saturday abduction of a man from a parking garage after witnesses said they saw a group of several men force him into a car, the Swedish news agency TT reported Thursday. However, investigators said they discovered the kidnapping was simply a prank to start a bachelor party. "Of course we are terribly sorry and apologize if anyone was offended. It was never our intention," said Joakim Karlsson, one of the organizers of the party. "I guess someone saw us and thought it looked nasty," Karlsson said. "We shouted 'lie down' and maybe there was an echo in the garage." Man crashes 'lemon' into dealership cars Advertisement PORTSMOUTH, N.H., July 21 (UPI) -- A man said he crashed his van into six cars at a New Hampshire car dealership because the dealer refused to take his "lemon" vehicle back. David Cross of Salisbury, Mass., was charged with six felony counts of criminal mischief. He said his wife purchased the van Monday at the Portsmouth Used Car Superstore and he soon discovered the vehicle had major problems including a broken odometer, the Portsmouth Herald reported Thursday. Cross said his mechanic recommended he "take it back," but the dealer refused to refund his money and told him he was "stuck with it." Cross said he brought the van back to the dealership just before midnight Monday night and drove it into six cars. "I hit the first $25,000 car I could see," Cross said. "I didn't hit a car under $20,000. Then I moved a van that they wouldn't come down on the price for. I moved it with the lemon they sold me. I just held it to the floor until I couldn't move it anymore. I took out seven vehicles, including my own." Cross said he flagged down a police cruiser and told an officer "the deal." He was arrested and released on his own recognizance. Advertisement Burglar fed chicken to dog OCALA, Fla., July 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a burglar apparently curried favor with a family's dog by bribing it with a rotisserie chicken. Marion County sheriff's deputies said an Ocala homeowner told them his house was burglarized while he and his wife were out between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, The Ocala Star-Banner reported Thursday. Investigators said the burglar apparently took a rotisserie chicken out of the refrigerator and fed it to the family's dog. The homeowner told deputies he had purchased the chicken the previous day and he discovered it on the living room floor when he arrived home Tuesday. Deputies said the burglar took $13,000 worth of jewelry. 11-year-old crashes car into water pipe BRANDON, Fla., July 21 (UPI) -- A Florida man was arrested on child neglect charges after allowing his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter to drive, authorities said. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Donald Leet, 37, allowed the girl to drive her mother's sport-utility vehicle with a 7-year-old girl in the vehicle Tuesday and she crashed into a water pipe near the First Baptist Church of Brandon about 7:30 p.m., The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Thursday. Advertisement Leet told deputies he decided not to drive because he had consumed a glass of wine with his dinner and had a suspended license. The girl told deputies Leet was teaching her to drive. "You are going to make me lose my job," Leet was quoted by a report as telling deputies. "Why don't you arrest a rapist or murderer instead of me. You're an illiterate southerner. You don't know anything. You only have a high school diploma. You're dumb." Leet was charged with two counts of child neglect and was released after posting $4,000 bail Wednesday.
