At the age of 18, I began doing bigger things but as well as the lifestyle it gave me, I ended up being kidnapped, tortured, beaten up.
Wearing their "RealD" spectacles, viewers munch popcorn as they watch a far-fetched yarn about Milo, a nine-year-old who doesn't eat his broccoli and whose mother ends up being kidnapped by Martians.
At the last minute, he invited two young backpackers to come along, and all three ended up being kidnapped, when they stumbled on Colombian paramilitaries ambushing a small town.
When Viking Man summons a reluctant Vikar to Madrid to edit a film (a job that earns him applause, boos and a special award at Cannes), and Vikar ends up being kidnapped every night to cut a clandestine film on Generalissimo Francisco Franco, it's easy to think of Roberto Bolaño's mad, fertile Barcelona campsite scenes in "The Savage Detectives".
That's all the more remarkable given that the man himself - a fifth century priest - is believed to have been born in Wales, and only ended up in the Emerald Isle after being kidnapped by Irish pirates.
Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson traveled to Ethiopia, where they ended up being shot, kidnapped, mock executed, and then imprisoned for over a year by the Ethiopian authorities.
Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson travelled to Ethiopia, where they ended up being shot, kidnapped, mock executed and then imprisoned for over a year by the Ethiopian authorities.
Solomon Northup was a New Yorker who ended up on a series of Louisiana plantations after being kidnapped in 1841.
But after being kidnapped by Hades, the Greek god of death, Persephone manages to end up both the goddess of the dead, Queen of the Underworld, and goddess of springtime.
People are being kidnapped.
