I Tried Kidnapping My Friend 3 Times

(intense music) - Kidnapping is a crime unless you have that person's permission. Thanks for tying me up. May I have a soda? Mm, that wasn't soda. I've been so busy with work lately that I miss hanging out with my

friend

s. This week I'm going to try to kidnap my best

friend

three

times

so we can spend more quality time together. I hope it's fun. (dramatic music) My best friend, Ben, and I have known each other for two and a half years. To put this into perspective, Romeo and Juliet had only known each other for less than four days.

So, we're closer than those two ever were. Ben and I used to go out at least three

times

a week. We would have dinner, watch movies, and watch hockey games together. We had what some people call a bromance. As time went by, little by little we grew apart. Life got busy. Free time became scarce. The laughter became a memory. It saddens me deeply, but I'm too proud to tell Ben that I miss him, so I'll do the next best thing: kidnap him three times. Using my intricate knowledge of Ben's interests and routines, I devised several plans to trap him.

Before we could officially capture Ben, my company's legal team requested Ben's written consent to participate in this video. The legal team ruins all my fun. Next, I needed Ben to sign my waiver so I could allow the

kidnapping

s to begin. I wrote a message to Ben telling him that he needed his help on an upcoming episode of Outsmarted. I didn't know he was lying. He didn't need help, he needed a goal. I asked three of my strongest coworkers to wear barbershop quartet uniforms with balaclavas and hide behind a wall. At my signal, they would sneak up behind Ben, cover him with a blanket, and kidnap him.

That's Ben's chair and that's the floor. Who were these coworkers willing to help kidnap my best friend? My first accomplice was Kwesi, who I am proud to say is one of my closest work friends. How well do you know me? - Shit, I don't even know your last name, dude. What is it? It's not Riley, no. How do they allow you to do this? -My second accomplice was a murderer I met on Cragslist. It's a joke. My second accomplice was my co-worker, Zach, with whom I have never had lunch alone. -You know, I don't want to hurt him, but if he hits me a few times and hurts me, I might have to throw him on the ground to calm him down. -And my last accomplice was a valet attendant with whom I only spoke once about professional wrestling.

Do you want to take off your mask and reveal your identity so people know who you are? - Rather not. - The three of these powers in the form of men were waiting for my order to carry out my bad orders. What time is it? It's time to kidnap my best friend. I asked you to come because I need your help to escape from a CIA spy. - How can I help you? - You are a very confident man. You seem very comfortable with your personal safety. - I would say that's pretty accurate. - That's why I guarantee that I can kidnap you three times in one week. - Wow.

You think you can kidnap me three times in one week. - I guarantee you that I can kidnap you three times in a week. - Go ahead. - Let me first define the term

kidnapping

. - Good. -Taking someone against their will to a different room. So I don't have to bring you to my basement and torture you, spank you, and tickle you. - All I know is that this means I'm going to be very alert, like... - You haven't accepted that. - Well. - I can run the rules for you. - Please. - You cannot, at any time, shout for help.

If you scream for help, that is considered an immediate kidnapping. - Well. - You can't fight anyone who tries to kidnap you. You can try to leave. You can try to run away. One more rule is that you cannot work from home every day. If I manage to kidnap you three times in a week, I can shave one of your eyebrows. -Come on, Mike. Completely removed? - Goodbye, front. (laughs) If I lose, you can shave my eyebrow. - I like my girlfriend to do things as a sounding board. -She Call her in front of us. - Hello Benihana. - Hi love.

Mike Carrier just bet me that he can kidnap me three times in one week. - Actually? -And if he succeeds, then he can shave my eyebrow. What do you think of this, Annie? - Obviously I don't approve. - Dont do it. - No. - But what do you think about my chances of succeeding here? I mean, you know me, I'm paranoid. I can be hyper alert all the time. I'm not going to... - Sure. - I think I can win this challenge. I'd rather get a tattoo of your choice than do this, almost. - A tattoo would last forever. - Do eyebrows grow back normally? - I feel comfortable giving him a tattoo if I win. - I love you and I'm going to do the angle of the tattoo. - The good news is that Ben raised the stakes.

Shaving his eyebrow would have embarrassed him for about a month, but getting an ugly tattoo would have embarrassed him for a lifetime. This was the first tattoo idea that crossed my mind. - Start right now. - You have to read the contract... - Okay. - and accept it. - Can I read it outside of this dark lair you've brought me to? Because there could be someone waiting right behind that door to catch me and move me. - Can. - Deal. - I'll give you the contract. There you go. Don't hesitate to read it. - I know that as soon as I sign this, you have something prepared to kidnap me.

I'm going to sign this outside of this room. - We don't have cameras outside. - Look, you can't use this video to keep me confined to your little box of tricks, Mike. - Okay, yeah, just... - Why doesn't someone get out that camera and join me while I sign this outside? If this is on, if there's a tattoo on the line and an eyebrow, I'm taking this very seriously. - Sure. - Kidnappers, you can stay hidden here wherever you are. - Yes, there is a table. Mmmmm. Perfect. - Good luck. - Good luck to you my friend. (bleep) Ben shouldn't have

tried

to outsmart me.

This means war, my friend. - I just signed a contract. I'm in hypervigilance mode right now. I asked my coworkers to keep an eye on me more. Evan, do you have my back? - I got you, brother. -Ben ran back to his desk, or as I call it, "he snuck away like a scared, cowardly cat." I asked my three barbershop guys to sneak up to Ben's desk and help me catch him. (intense, suspenseful music) - Damn. - No, protect Ben! (coworkers laughing, shouting) - No, what is this guy? No no no. You will not receive outside help.

For the first one, a quartet of barbers in balaclavas kidnapped you. - Is that who I'm going to face the rest of the time? - Time will tell, friend. - This is a bull (bleep). (dramatic music) - At work, Ben and I are expected to attend the same weekly meeting. He knew that if he didn't show up, Ben would become extremely paranoid. So paranoid that he stays at the door to protect himself. Where I am? Plotting my next strategy. -Mike is the kind of guy who would put a tracker on my car to know my whereabouts at all times, so I'm looking to see if there's anything. - For my next kidnapping strategy, I will try to exploit Ben's greatest love: acting.

Ben is a tremendous actor. Here's one of his first and most embarrassing headshots of him. I discovered a perfect way to use Ben's dream of being an actor to my advantage. Seven years ago I wrote a script about young people who work at a solar company. I added a monologue for a new character named Ben and gave this script to the director Ben works with most often, a man named Henry. - I'm usually pretty mellow in my normal life, so this was an opportunity for me to do something horrible and blame Mike. - Several days before the kidnapping challenge began, I asked Henry to email this script to Ben and ask him to memorize the lines.

I wanted to make sure that while Ben was performing his lines, he looked like a complete idiot. Therefore, I wrote three strange emotional changes in the script to challenge his abilities. -Actually it was as if we presented it as a really big project for him that could be important for his career. I texted Mike saying, "Oh man, I feel so bad about this, it seems wrong. Ben is so emotional, you know this is going to end in tears." And Mike didn't seem to be worried about it. - Since I'm not the strongest man in the world right now, I needed help lifting Ben up to kidnap him.

So in the script, I wrote Ben's character talking to two shirtless men. To fill those shirtless roles, I hired weightlifters. - I have been a personal trainer for 15 years. I could bench press 415 and deadlift a little over 500 pounds. - I always wanted to kidnap a celebrity. - Let's see if Ben was dumb enough to memorize my fake script. - Action. - Geez Louise, just buy my solar panels. If there's anyone on this planet who can appreciate the sheer power of the sun, it's you two, professional sunbathers. I mean, you're destroying my soul right now. - Immediately after we are honored with Ben's performance, we will kidnap him a second time.

Take a step back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy this strange monologue that I forced my best friend to memorize. - Honestly, I don't even know why I'm trying to save the world anymore. I mean, the doctor says my heart is too big. Both literally and metaphorically. The sad thing is that she says I have given so much of myself to charitable causes that I only have about 80 more years to live. So I'm going to spend these last 80 years helping people. You can call me Mr. Energy. First name Solar, last name Energy, middle name Buy me a panel or I'll break your pelvis. (laughs) - Sorry, I was distracted by how great your performance was. - Oh, mother (bleep).

Oh no! God (bleep). You piece of (bleep)! You (bleeps) guys! Your mother (bleep)! No! Did you write this scene to get me kidnapped? - I did. - Your mother(bleep). - I'm a bather, honey! (laughing, cheering) - No! (Mike screaming) - Oh, that was amazing. - Kidnapping number two was a piece of cake, and boy, that cake was Yum City. That's number two, honey. - There won't be a number three. - Here is another wonderful tattoo idea that I like. A week ago, before this challenge started, I interviewed Ben's girlfriend, Annie, on camera. I told her that she was planning Ben's surprise birthday party.

She responded by saying that I was a great friend. This is what I did next. I'm not planning your boyfriend's surprise birthday party, I'm planning to kidnap your boyfriend. - Interesting. I love it. - If you're interested... - Oh my God. - I could use your help. - Well. How can I serve you? I would say that Katy Perry is the celebrity he likes the most. - Yes. - This is the strategy I proposed to Annie. I want Annie to give me a copy of the key to her apartment. I'll sneak in at 4am. m., I will crawl over to her bed and gently wake Annie.

She will quietly get out of bed. A Katy Perry impersonator I hired will crawl into bed and wake Ben up by whispering, "Ben, it's me, Katy Perry. I love you and I want to be together." We'll wait three seconds for Ben's response. Then the two weightlifters I hired earlier will grab Ben and drag him out of the room. This will be the third and last kidnapping. - He's going to stab you. He will kick your ass. - Do you have a knife? In bed? - Some nights? -Annie kept her promise to get the key to her apartment.

Then I hired a Katy Perry impersonator who I assumed was a Katy Perry fan. -I really don't like Katy Perry very much, but Katy Perry's life has chosen me, so now I am forced to accept it. -In order to abuse Ben's 165-pound body, I hired the same two weightlifters who sunbathed from earlier to return at 3 a.m. - I think Ben is going to scream a little. - I went home for a while. I ended up eating a spicy tuna roll. - As the clock approached 4 a.m. m., my team and I drove to Ben's apartment.

We drove at the speed limit, because that's what all the cool kids do. I entered through the front door using the code Ben's girlfriend gave me, then my gang of weirdos and I snuck inside. Using the apartment key Annie gave me, I sneaked in with my team. (dramatic music, under construction) I calmly knelt by the bed to wake Annie and put our kidnapping plan into motion. (dramatic reveal music) Ben cheated on me. He was furious. Annie betrayed me. "Cunning, cunning, Mr. Carrier. Lesson one: loyalty." And she says "Tic toc" on my forehead. There's a note that says "Ponme" and there's a YouTube link.

So I have to check out this YouTube link. - Mr. Carrier. Right now, I'm fast asleep in a hotel room while you're in my room with a couple of creepy sex dolls. I don't know, how did this happen? I knew you would want to get into my apartment, but I didn't know how. You wouldn't have my keys, you're not allowed to do anything illegal, and then I realized that the only way to get to me would be through Annie, so I interrogated her for hours and she finally broke. And now I have her working for me.

Right where she belongs. We're here at Staples right now. I'm printing something for you, Mikey Boy. Look,I have this man. Look at him. - Good night, John. - Good night, John. Sweet dreams. Arriving at our new home for the night, the wonderful Hollywood Roosevelt. So he keeps playing, friend... And get used to this sound. (trimmers whirring) - Not only was I angry... I want to put a hole in every wall here. He was in someone else's room at 4:30 a.m. with strangers who were also angry. -If I see Ben walking down the street anytime over the next year, I might kidnap him (bleep) myself. (mysterious reveal music) - I wanted to get a good look at who was coming to kidnap me, so I asked our apartment manager to show the elevator footage from last night.

There's Mike leading the way. And who is that woman? - I slept for four hours before waking up angry. I decided that sleeping was overrated and returned to work so I could plan the ultimate strategy for the kidnapping. Lately, Ben has been collaborating with a video producer named Kelly. I asked Kelly to help me sabotage Ben, and she even offered him $100. Will you help me kidnap Ben for the third time? - I will help you but I don't feel good about it. - Ben agreed to meet Kelly the next morning, so I got to work. First, I asked my good friend Steven to help me set up a GoPro in the meeting room and hide a microphone in a backpack.

At midnight I finally finished working out all the logistics of my new strategy. I emailed all my accomplices and slept like a baby. (tense music) I'm using this wig as a disguise so Ben doesn't recognize me when I kidnap him for the third and final time. I enlisted the help of four strong men to drag Ben's pale buttocks out of the meeting room. Here is my new strategy. Kelly will arrive early and wait patiently in the meeting room. When Ben comes in and closes the door behind him, Kelly will secretly call my phone. That phone call is the signal my team waits downstairs before breaking in and kidnapping Ben one last time.

Just waiting for a phone call. Come on, Kelly. (dramatic music) - Can you close the door? - My gang and I received the signal from our accomplice inside, Kelly, and we entered. (dramatic music) (air horn screeching) (men screaming) Wait, that's not Ben. Who the hell is that? Did Kelly stab me in the back too? God (bleep). - I'm supposed to help Mike kidnap Ben tomorrow. I don't think he can do it. - Shortly after midnight, when I emailed Kelly my strategy for the day, she was overcome with guilt. She confessed to Ben that she was trying to use her as a double agent.

She didn't want the $100 bribe either. Many mothers here must be rich by now. $100 is a lot of money. - So, this is my plan. I'm going into the office in this suit, black shirt, black hat. I'm going to go into the meeting and say, "Kelly, wait a second, I have to go to the bathroom." I'm going to the bathroom. - Well. - When you get to the bathroom, Victor will already be there waiting. I'm going to give you my shirt and my hat. I'm going to change into something else. Then Victor will enter the meeting pretending to be me, with his back to the door.

Kelly will tell Mike I'm there. Mike will come in and Victor. Kelly will then sound the horn, which is my cue to leave the bathroom untouched. It worked. It worked. Oh, thank you (bleep). -Just after Ben escaped my elaborate trap, one of his accomplices handed me a video. I reluctantly sat down and watched whatever bull (bleep) Ben wanted me to see. - Mike, didn't we just have this talk? I wasn't kidding when I said, "Lesson number one is loyalty." That's something I share with all my teammates, including Kelly, who you

tried

to turn against me. So now you feel that familiar pain of having been betrayed.

Still I wish you the best, my friend, and good luck. - Enraged by Ben's mocking video, I gathered my group of muscle men and took them on another mission. I assumed Ben went to celebrate his brilliant escape plan with his girlfriend, Annie. My team and I set a course for Annie's desk. Brute force had worked once before. Why not try again? As we walked to Annie's desk, I noticed Ben enter the room about 10 feet in front of us. We saw Ben talking on the phone, bragging about his master escape plan. - Mike, do you really think I'm stupid enough to walk into a room with only one exit?

Come on, man, not so late in the game. - I made my team split up. Justin went to the other side of the room. Brendan went to the center. Josh and I stayed behind Ben. We surround him and wait. A few seconds passed and then I heard it. Ben's scream. - Leave it, leave it, leave it! - Center. Get him! Here, here, here. You're mine, darling. (Ben curses) - I became too arrogant! - We found it! - We have it! We have it! Just as I guaranteed, I kidnapped Ben three times in one week. Sure, he wasn't pretty, but neither is my face.

What we've been doing here is just joking around with each other and we've taken it very seriously. The actual act of kidnapping someone is a crime. Anyone who does that is a piece of (bleep) and deserves to go to jail and rot in hell. -There is an organization that is very important to me called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and they dedicate their lives to finding missing children. If you take two minutes, check it out, donate if you can, you could literally help save a life. Now back to this bull (bleep). Hey. - Hello, Ben. - How are you'? - Well well.

Are you ready? - I'm not nervous. (laughs) - So I'm going to give you a template. - Well. (sighing) I'm not normally a religious person, but I'm praying right now. (Danny laughing) - Stay very still right there. (intense and dramatic music) - I hope you like it. (sighing) Please don't hit me in the face. -When you say things like that, he makes me nervous. -As I watched my best friend get punished for losing a challenge he never asked for, I reflected on the nature of friendship. Friendships have ups and downs. There are moments full of laughter.

There are moments full of tears. There are days you want to hug them. There are days you want to spit in their faces. Even after the hell I dragged Ben through, he trusted me enough to get a tattoo on his arm forever. That trust meant a lot to me. These last few days I have thought a lot. The only reason I made this video was so Ben and I could spend more quality time together. If he had given me a disastrous tattoo on his arm, he would hate me forever. He'd cut me out of his life and I'd have to live in the sewers, so I'm not getting a shitty tattoo. - I can see? - You can look. - I'm going to give him a beautiful tattoo. - What's up, DNA, friend? - It's a DNA helix. - Loyalty...

Your mother(bleep). That he is sick. - That's a lesson you tried to teach me twice earlier this week. I will make sure you have learned for the rest of your life. I chose a tattoo that represents our week together and something very important to Ben: loyalty. Loyalty is also a reference to his favorite song, DNA by Kendrick Lamar. - I have "loyalty" within my DNA. That's (bleep) dope. This tattoo is a 10. You chose something for me that I would have chosen for myself, which is the best gift a friend can give me. Thank you. - Now we can go out more often. - Yes friend.

This is amazing. -Yes.-He's a good guy. - At the end of the day, I'm thrilled that my best friend forced me to take my skills to the next level. Hopefully in the future you will be more aware of his personal security vulnerabilities. Maybe next time Ben could try to kidnap me. Are you afraid that Ben will kidnap you? - No, I'm afraid of you, because you shoot like that all the time. Do you remember you once came to my desk and said, "Hey, I have a great idea. So let's do this thing where you show your penis to your best friend." And then you did the trick of not taking off your pants...