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[[Exactly What It Says
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Scare Tactics (
== [[Film]] ==
* Alicia Silverstone's character in ''[[Excess Baggage]]''. She wants to make her father think she's been kidnapped, so she ties herself up and locks herself in the trunk of a car. Then a real car thief steals the car with her inside...
* Happens with a [[Traffic Warden]] in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.
* In ''[[The Hangover]]'' when the main characters get their car back, they discover that at some point in their "drunken" antics they locked a naked Asian man in their trunk.
* Turkish film ''Varyemez'' has a rich industrialist getting car-bumped by a bunch of cash-strapped actors. The industrialist, already edgy from the death threats he's been receiving, believes the actors to be kidnappers. The actors just [[Sure, Let's Go
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens in various fashions at multiple points in ''[[
** The straightest example of this trope would be, after a critic writes a bad review of Paddy's calling it "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar In Philadelphia" (the episode's title), Charlie gets drunk and kidnaps him, leaving the rest of the episode has an exercise on how to release him without legal repercussions.
** In "The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition", the gang kidnaps a family in a misguided attempt to remodel their house. After {{spoiler|destroying their house instead, they have to give Dee's newly-acquired house to the family in compensation}}.
** In "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis", Frank forces the kids of the family resident in the house he just bought to do work in the basement when their parents are at work. {{spoiler|Same ending as the last one}}.
* In season 1 of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Michael gives a Mexican woman a ride thinking that she's his mother's housekeeper, Lupe. She was not. This woman is then disturbed to see red splatter all over the front seat (actually nail polish spilled by Michael's sister), and shovels and a ''human skeleton'' in the back (actually taken from an excavation site by Michael's brother). Michael wants to prove that he's a good person by giving this woman a ride, refusing to let her out "too soon" when she becomes distressed by the shovels and "blood spray". She eventually runs away when he stops in the Wetlands, and the episode ends with Michael being arrested.
* In the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Hearts of Steel", kidnappers accidentally kidnap the housekeeper's daughter rather than the daughter of a business magnate because the two girls have swapped jackets.
* Happened in ''[[The Bill]]': A guy carjacked a car and didn't realise there was a baby in the back. The baby was found injured and {{spoiler|It turned out that she'd been hit by her dad just beforehand}}.
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* In ''[[Titus]]'' (sit back, cause [[It Makes Sense in Context|this is complicated]]), Tommy's ex-girlfriend came back to town and he wanted to talk with her, only he was limited by a past restraining order. He ran into her car and then in a note claimed that Titus would repair her car for free (owning his own car shop). When she came in Tommy tried to hide, but she ended up seeing him. Panicking, she barricaded herself in Titus' office and tried to call the police, but Dave yanked out the phone line. Titus does a [[Face Palm]] and declares that they now have a hostage.
* Played straight in the finale of ''[[Dark Angel]]''. Max and the gang are surrounded by their foes while at work, forcing them to take their collegues hostage.
* ''[[
** In one episode, Linda is inadvertently drugged and, in a misguided fit of appreciation, steals a baby so she can claim it as her own by writing her name on it.
** In another episode, Ted regales the demographic he's unpopular with with a tale of how, in his youth, he once accidentally kidnapped a random pig rather than another school's mascot.
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* In the ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' episode ''Very Bad Things'' Joy steals a delivery truck without realizing that there was a delivery boy still inside. Earl and Joy then have to figure out how to release him without getting caught. {{spoiler|In the end of season 2, Joy goes to trial and Earl ends up taking the rap for her and going to jail.}}
* Early in ''[[Burn Notice]]'', [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage|Mike gets kidnapped during a bank heist]]. So a few seasons later when he calls to say he's involved in a hostage situation, everyone assumed he got kidnapped again.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Lupe's Revenge", where on a field trip to Mexico, Peggy accidentally brings along a local girl, and is arrested for kidnapping when trying to bring her back.
* On ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Dino goes missing and Fred brings back what he thinks is Dino, but he was really taking someone else's <s>dog</s> snorkasaur from its own yard.
* Done in ''[[
* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', Jack orders Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Santa Claus. However, on their first try, they somehow manage to kidnap the Easter Bunny by mistake, much to Jack's chagrin.
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[[Category:I Have Your Index]]
[[Category:Crime and Punishment Tropes]]
[[Category:Accidental Kidnapping]]
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