Failing to Prepare is Preparing to Fail

We generally suspect that few fake kidnappings go off without a hitch. And that's especially true when the perpetrators of the crime don't understand the basics of cell-phone technology:

At about 6am Friday morning Bangor Police received information that Mr. Daniel Chute was being held captive in an automobile in the Bangor Mall Cinema's parking lot on Stillwater Avenue.

Police say these captors were demanding several hundred dollars to be wired to them and if they didn't get the money, they...