{"id":33798,"date":"2022-09-10T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-a-costly-night-of-freedom\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:03:07","slug":"and-finally-a-costly-night-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-a-costly-night-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"And Finally: A Costly Night of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be the romance has cooled a bit?<\/p>\n<p>That may be the case for a young man in Bolton, England, who pretended to have been kidnapped so he could stay out and party without his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Aug. 26, 2014, UPI story, &#8220;The unnamed man told his girlfriend he was being held in a house in Bolton, England, until he repaid &#163;50 to the fabricated captor. The man&#8217;s understandably panicked girlfriend called the police to report the fictional crime, launching a very costly manhunt that led to an unnecessary arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Considerable resources and time then went into finding this man, who it transpires made up the entire thing so he could stay out and party,&#8221; Detective Inspector Jo Clawson said. &#8220;This is without doubt one of the most foolish and irresponsible incidents I have been involved in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen police participated in a neighborhood search, knocking on doors and combing through CCTV footage. The UPI report indicates, &#8220;The missing man eventually was discovered at a party around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Rather than arrest him, the man was fined on the spot and forever will have a criminal record for trying to have night without his girlfriend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/and-finally-a-costly-night-of-freedom\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be the romance has cooled a bit? That may be the case for a young man in Bolton, England, who pretended to have been kidnapped so he could stay out and party without his girlfriend. According to an Aug. 26, 2014, UPI story, &#8220;The unnamed man told his girlfriend he was being held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-a-costly-night-of-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And Finally: A Costly Night of Freedom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}