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| Source: Mercer County Prosecutor's Office) |
I thought FB was for sharing goofy pictures, family photos and videos that make you laugh so hard your sides hurt? Faking your own kidnapping, tho?
Treonca Gaddis, 24, is charged with "creating a false public alarm" after investigators found the "missing" woman with her boyfriend in a Brooklyn, N.Y. apartment. No one in her family had seen Gaddis since Dec. 19, according to a story in The Times of Trenton.
The failed plan
Her mother, doing what any good mom should do, reported her daughter missing on Friday. The next day, sexually explicit photos of Gaddis showed up on her Facebook page, along with a demand for $3,000, according to Trenton Lt. Mark Kieffer.
I am still trying to figure out how she arrived at $3,000. That's probably just enough tax refund money to settle a bill or two but not enough to blow the family budget, right.
Maybe she didn't think to add a few zeros onto that figure?
Maybe she knew that her family would never be able to pay more than $3,000?
Maybe she believed she'd only be worth $3,000 -- not a cent more?
A bad idea from the start
This fool. Didn't she know police can trace your physical location when posting to Facebook? And I swear, she must have seen Horrible Bosses 2, because this seems like it came right out of a scene of that movie (a character staged a fake kidnapping and wanted his uber rich father to pay a ransom worth millions).
Trenton cops contacted NYC police, and Gaddis was traced to her boyfriend's Brooklyn apartment, unharmed.
“It was all a hoax,’’ Kieffer told The Times of Trenton.
The boyfriend hasn't yet been charged (no word on if he was in on the crime, too).
Stupid is
Here's a tip, boo boo, and lessons for you boys and girls.
The next time you attempt to stage your own kidnapping, at least do it the old fashioned way -- with a physical note, not Facebook.
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